Capturing Social Embeddedness: a constructivist approach - Bruce Edmonds

6 Conclusion

Despite the fact that I have characterised social embedding in a constructivist way, its presence can have real consequences for any meaningful models of social agents that we create. It is not simplistically linked to coordination, communication or motivation but may interact with these.

Its application may have the most immediate impact upon our modelling methodology. For example, it may help to distinguish which of several modelling methodologies are most useful for specified goals. It might be applied to the engineering of agent communities so as to help reduce unforeseen outcomes by suppressing social embedding. Hopefully social embeddedness can be identified and analysed in a greater variety of contexts, so as to present a clearer picture of its place in the modelling of social agents.

Capturing Social Embeddedness: a constructivist approach - Bruce Edmonds - 30 OCT 98

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