Societal challenges need social agents

Virginia Dignum; Frank Dignum

Societal challenges need social agents

Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum

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Big societal challenges involve many interdependent parties at different levels of society that are all interacting and reacting to each other. Although agent based simulations can help to support the analysis of these problems, we argue that we need to develop a fundamental social framework for the agents in these simulations in order to get a grip on the underlying mechanisms at work. We show some scenarios where we applied some of the ideas and sketch the sociological foundation of the agents and an agent architecture that can be used for building agent based simulations for societal challenges.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2017 AAAI Spring Symposium Series
Publisher	AI Access Foundation
Pages	30-36
ISBN (Electronic)	9781577357797
Publication status	Published - 2017
Externally published	Yes
Event	2017 AAAI Spring Symposium - Stanford, United States Duration: 27 Mar 2017 → 29 Mar 2017

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Conference	2017 AAAI Spring Symposium
Country/Territory	United States
City	Stanford
Period	27/03/17 → 29/03/17

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