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Toward a Myers-Briggs type indicator model of agent behavior in multiagent teams

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MABS'10: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Multi-agent-based simulation

Pages 28 - 43

Published: 11 May 2010 Publication History

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This paper explores the use of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) as the basis for defining the personality of an agent. The MBTI is a well-known psychological theory of human personality. In the MBTI model, four axes are defined to explain how humans perceive their environment, how they interact with others and how they make decisions based on these traits. The work described here presents a preliminary model of agent behavior in which two of the axes are implemented, combining to reflect four distinct agent personality types. Experiments were conducted under three environmental conditions: single agent setting, homogeneous multiagent team, and heterogeneous multiagent team. Results are presented for each condition and are analyzed in comparison with the other conditions, as well as within the context of the expected MBTI behaviors given each environment and the simulated task. It is demonstrated that agents of each personality type produce very different results, distinct for and characteristic of each MBTI personality type.

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MABS'10: Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Multi-agent-based simulation

May 2010

167 pages

ISBN:9783642183447

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Tibor Bosse
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of Sciences, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Armando Geller
George Mason University, Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study, Department of Computational Social Science, Fairfax, VA
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Catholijn M. Jonker
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Mediametics, Delft, The Netherlands

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Bera ARandhavane TManocha D(2017)Aggressive, tense, or shy? identifying personality traits from crowd videosProceedings of the 26th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence10.5555/3171642.3171660(112-118)Online publication date: 19-Aug-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/3171642.3171660
Guy SKim SLin MManocha DLiu KBridson RBargteil Avan de Panne M(2011)Simulating heterogeneous crowd behaviors using personality trait theoryProceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGGRAPH/Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation10.1145/2019406.2019413(43-52)Online publication date: 5-Aug-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2019406.2019413

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