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Social Mental Shaping: Modelling the Impact of Sociality on the Mental States of Autonomous Agents
Author(s) -
Panzarasa Pietro,
Jennings Nicholas R.,
Norman Timothy J.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
computational intelligence
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.353
H-Index - 52
eISSN - 1467-8640
pISSN - 0824-7935
DOI - 10.1111/0824-7935.00171
Subject(s) - sociality , situated , mental state , negotiation , mental model , abstraction , perspective (graphical) , psychology , cognitive science , cognitive psychology , social psychology , computer science , sociology , epistemology , artificial intelligence , social science , ecology , biology , philosophy
This paper presents a framework that captures how the social nature of agents that are situated in a multi‐agent environment impacts upon their individual mental states. Roles and social relationships provide an abstraction upon which we develop the notion of social mental shaping . This allows us to extend the standard Belief‐Desire‐Intention model to account for how common social phenomena (e.g. cooperation, collaborative problem‐solving and negotiation) can be integrated into a unified theoretical perspective that reflects a fully explicated model of the autonomous agent’s mental state.