Cognitive Modeling and
Agent-Based Social Simulation
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Technical Report WS-06-02
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Cognitive Modeling and
Agent-Based Social Simulation
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
M. Afzal Upal and Ron Sun, Cochairs
Technical Report WS-06-02
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Organizing Committee
M. Afzal Upal
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Dept
University of Toledo, Toledo, OH, 43606
www.eng.utoledo.edu/~aupal
Email: afzal@eecs.utoledo.edu
Ron Sun
Cognitive Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A
Troy, New York 12180, USA
www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun
Program Committee
Bill Clancey, Computational Sciences Division, NASA-Ames Research Center
Rosaria Conte, University of Siena, Italy
Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester UK.
Piotr Gmytrasiewicz, Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
Christian Labiere, Micro Analysis and Design, Inc.
Pietro Panzarasa, Center for Business Management, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Jan Treur, Department of Artificial Intelligence, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
William Wallace, Cognitive Science Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Gerhard Weiss, Institut fuer Informatik, Technische Universitaet, Muenchen, Germany
This AAAI–06 Workshop was held July 17, 2006,
in Boston, Massachusetts USA
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Contents
Preface / vii
From Artificial Intelligence to Artificial Culture / 1
M. Afzal Upal
From Rational to Emotional Agents / 6
Hong Jiang and José M. Vidal
Using a Cognitive Model to Represent Information
in a Social Simulation / 15
Teresa Ko, Justin Basilico, Nina Berry, and Chris Forsythe
A Cognitive Model of Crowd Behavior Based
on Social Comparison Theory / 25
Gal A. Kaminka and Natalie Fridman
Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture
for Socially Competent Agents / 36
Alexei V. Samsonovich
Towards Flexible Task and Team Maintenance / 49
Ari Yakir, Gal A. Kaminka, and Nirom Cohenov-Slapak
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