Capturing Social Embeddedness: a constructivist approach - Bruce Edmonds

Contents

Contents

Abstract

1 - Introduction

2 - Constructivism and AI

3 - Characterising Social Embeddedness

3.1 - Being Situated

3.2 - Being Socially Situated

3.3 - Being Socially Embedded

3.4 - Possible Effects of Social Embeddedness on Behaviour

3.5 - Checking for Social Embeddedness

4 - A Model of Co-evolving Social Agents

4.1 - The Set-up

4.1.1 - The environment

4.1.2 - The agents

4.1.3 - Communication and Imitation

4.1.4 - Runs of the model

4.1.5 - Implementation

4.2 - The Results

4.3 - More Detailed Case Studies

4.3.1 - BarGoer-6 at week 100 of the run with the crowd-avoiding scheme and listening only (ca+l)

4.3.2 - BarGoer-9 at the end of the run with the friendly scheme and listening only (fr+l)

4.4 - Comments

5 - Conditions for the Occurrence of Social Embedding

6 - Conclusion

Acknowledgements

References

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