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The role of social identity, rationality and anticipation in believable agents

Published: 04 June 2012 Publication History

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Agents that interact in complex social situations need to take the social context in consideration in order to perform believably. We argue that social identity is an important factor; therefore, agents should incorporate social identity theory in their behaviour, which implies the ability to categorize others (and themselves) into social groups. In addition, social situations often present social dilemmas with expected rational choices. Social identity may influence the agent to deviate from the rational choice. However, in some situations the rational choice may be the expected, and believable, behaviour. In fact, we argue that finding the dynamics between the social bias induced by social identity and the rational motivation is one of the challenges of building believable agents. In all this, anticipation takes an important role, as it is important to understand the others to cope well with a social situation.

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  • (2013)You are who you hang out withProceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems10.5555/2484920.2485212(1337-1338)Online publication date: 6-May-2013

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AAMAS '12: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems - Volume 3
June 2012
376 pages
ISBN:0981738133

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International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems

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Published: 04 June 2012

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  1. anticipation
  2. believable agents
  3. individual and social rationality
  4. social awareness
  5. social identity
  6. socially intelligent agents

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  • (2013)You are who you hang out withProceedings of the 2013 international conference on Autonomous agents and multi-agent systems10.5555/2484920.2485212(1337-1338)Online publication date: 6-May-2013

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