Some types of animals exploit the external environment to support their cognitive processes, in the sense of patterns created in the environment that function as external mental s...
Tibor Bosse, Catholijn M. Jonker, Martijn C. Schut...
Modeling crowd behavior is an important challenge for cognitive modelers. We propose a novel model of crowd behavior, based on Festinger’s Social Comparison Theory, a social psy...
Abstract This paper attempts to define an emotional model for virtual agents that behave autonomously in social worlds. We adopt shallow modeling based on the decomposition of the...
We present a deterministic model for on-line social networks based on transitivity and local knowledge in social interactions. In the Iterated Local Transitivity (ILT) model, at ea...
Anthony Bonato, Noor Hadi, Paul Horn, Pawel Pralat...
We present a model of social learning of both language and skills, while assuming—insofar as possible—strict autonomy, virtual embodiment, and situatedness. This model is built...