Modelling Socially Intelligent Agents - Bruce Edmonds

Conclusion

I have suggested that to model social behaviour one should include the ability to distinguish, identify, model and address other agents individually in a flexible manner, because a social intelligence needs to be grounded in these abilities.

I have exhibited an extension the El Farol model where some of these elements are included. In this model we see the evolution of a society where the intelligence seems to reside, at least somewhat, beyond each agent individually in the web of their interactions - the society of agents. This seems to be due to the co-evolution of the structure together. Such a case illustrates the potential difference between modelling truly social agents where the agents are truly `bound up' with their society and modelling their cognition individually and then placing them together in a situation where they then interact.

When such social behaviour does occur we may well find ourselves with many of the same difficulties that other social scientists have, namely the tracing of very complex chains of causation if one works in detail and the problem of the meaning and use of our descriptive terms if we attempt a macroscopic approach.

Modelling Socially Intelligent Agents - Bruce Edmonds - 17 DEC 97

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