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ICALT
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
Social Software and the Emergence of Control
Social software, such as blogs, wikis, tagging systems and collaborative filters, treats the group as a first-class object within the system. Drawing from theories of transactiona...
Jon Dron
CEEMAS
2003
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Balancing Individual Capabilities and Social Peer Pressure for Role Adoption
In this paper, we model agent role adoption when they are under the influence of peers and must account for their capabilities as well. Our model suggests a strategy for role adopt...
Xin Zhang, Henry Hexmoor
IAT
2006
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
A Multi-Agent Approach to Social Human Behaviour in Children's Play
This paper introduces a multi-agent system (MAS) approach for modelling social behaviours in children’s play. The children, the dynamics of their play, and the playground are mo...
Frodi Hammer, Alireza Derakhshan, Yves Demazeau, H...
ECIS
2003
13 years 10 months ago
A critique of statistical modelling from a critical realist perspective
Most published research in information systems is underpinned by a positivist or empiricist philosophy. This generally involves the collection of quantitative data and its subsequ...
John Mingers
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling and managing collective cognitive convergence
When the same set of people interact frequently with one another, they grow to think more and more along the same lines, a phenomenon we call "collective cognitive convergenc...
H. Van Dyke Parunak, Theodore C. Belding, Rainer H...