Socially Situated Intelligence

a one-day workshop held at SAB'98 University of Zürich, August 1998.

• The Topic
• The Papers (now available on-line)
• Publication
• Related Web Pages and Links
• Program Committee
• Co-Chairs

The Topic

In recent years it has been increasingly recognised that many important aspects of intelligence are grounded in intimate interaction with a physical environment - what is called `embodied intelligence'. This workshop is to explore the importance of aspects of intelligence and intelligent behaviour that are grounded in interaction with a social environment hence the title `Socially Situated Intelligence'.

Much research into intelligence and adaptive behaviour has been done from the point of view of single agents. Even work into intelligence and adaption in social situations has taken an approach where the intelligence or ability to adapt is built into the agent separately from the social situation it is then put into. However, it is clear that there may be a significant difference between an intelligence that has evolved (or at least significantly developed) in a social context, and an intelligence that is not socially grounded in this way. The workshop aims at identifying the basic differences between these two conceptions of intelligence and wants to further a better understanding of the specific mechanisms which make natural or artificial agents social.

The Papers - available on-line as CPM-Reports

Experiments on human-robot communication with Robota, an imitative learning and communication doll robot - Aude Billard, Kerstin Dautenhahn and Gillian Hayes

Social Intelligence as Norm Adaptation - Magnus Boman and Harko Verhagen

Toward teaching a robot `infant' using emotive communication acts - Cynthia Breazeal and Juan Velasquez

The Evolutionary Emergence of Socially Intelligent Agents - Alastair Channon and Robert Damper

The Contribution of Society to the Construction of Individual Intelligence - Bruce Edmonds and Kerstin Dautenhahn

Positioning the analysis: Memetics as a methodological tool to close the ranks between social and traditional history - Rogan Jacobson

The Social Dimension of Economics and Multiagent Systems - Adolfo López Paredes and Ricardo del Olmo Martínez

Modelling and Evolution of Social Trends in Virtual Environments - María-Isabel Sánchez-Segura, Ricardo Imbert, Angélica de Antonio and Javier Segovia

Publication

All the papers are published electronically in full, as part of the Centre for Policy Modelling's technical report series.

There will be paper proceedings distributed at the workshop, which will also be a technical report of the University of Zurich. The exact reference for this is yet to be determined.

The organisers plan a special issue of Computational and Mathematical Organisation Theory on the subject of "Social Intelligence". Information about this special issue can be found at:

http://bruce.edmonds.name/ssi/cmot.html

Related Web Pages and Links

Special Issues

• Call for Papers for a special issue of Computational and Mathematical Organisation Theory on the topic of Socially Situated Intelligence and Organisations
• A forthcoming special issue of Adaptive Behavior on the subject of Simulation Models of Social Agents
• A fothcoming issue of Applied Artificial Intelligence on Socially Intelligent Agents

On-Line Papers

• Grounding Agent Sociality: The Social World is its Own Best Model , From Agent Theory to Agent Implementation - a paper by Kerstin Dautenhahn
• Capturing Social Embeddedness: a constructivist approach - a paper by Bruce Edmonds
• Social Simulation Models and Reality: Three Approaches - a paper by Scott Moss

Pages of Resources

• Socially Intelligent Agents - a page of resources following up the AAAI symposium, compiled by Kerstin Dautenhahn

Workshops, Conferences etc.

• A forthcoming workshop on Towards Culturally Situated Agents as part of PRICAI'98 in November
• AAAI Fall Symposium on Emotional and Intelligent: The Tangled Knot of Cognition, Florida october 1998.

Relevant On-line Journals

• JASSS - Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
• JoM-EMIT - Journal of Memetics - Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
• JSES - Journal of Social and Evolutionary Systems

The Program Committee

• Varol Akman, (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey)
• John A. Barnden, (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)
• Cristiano Castelfranchi, (CNR, Italy)
• Kerstin Dautenhahn, (University of Reading, UK)
• Bruce Edmonds, (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
• Graeme Hirst, (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Liane Gabora, (UCLA, US)
• Norbert Glaser (INRIA, France)
• Andrew Goatly, (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Joseph Goguen, (UCSD, US)
• Thomas Malsch (Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg, Germany)
• Gloria Mark, (GMD, Germany)
• Scott Moss, (Manchester Metropolitan University, UK)
• Brian Scassellati, (MIT, USA)
• Thomas Uthmann, (University of Mainz, Germany)
• Eric Werner, (FGCU, USA)

Co-Chairs