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Modelling Socially Intelligent Agents - Bruce Edmonds
Social intelligence implies more than mere interaction with other agents plus intelligence. For example, agents might apply their intelligence to trading with other agents without any intelligence being applied to the process of relating to the others. Such an intelligence might be without the means of recognising and referring to other agents as individuals (or groups). In such a case its internal models of its social environment would be entirely generic and thus it could not form any individually social relationship with another agent (different from its relation to any other agent it interacts with). Such a lack of social intelligence has advantages, such as the ability to analyse and predict their behaviour in computational communities. However if we are to model many key behaviours in organisations, we need a greater social sophistication.
Thus in denoting the presence of a social intelligence, It would need to be grounded in at least some of the following:
- a relative sophistication of communicative mechanisms (both in the generation and interpretation of messages);
- the ability to represent aspects of other agents (individually or grouped), in order to anticipate their actions (though this need not involve the explicit representation of the other's beliefs, goals etc.);
- the ability to distinguish between and refer to different agents, such that different aspects may be captured for each one (or each group), e.g. in modelling their individual reliability as an information source;
- the ability to direct messages locally to specific individuals (or groups of individuals);
- the presence of purely communicative (social) sub-goals (or even top goals).
Modelling Socially Intelligent Agents - Bruce Edmonds - 17 DEC 97
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