| Title | Social Action in Socially Situated Agents |
| Publication Type | Conference Paper |
| Year of Publication | 2019 |
| Authors | Barnes, Chloe M., Ekárt, Anikó, Lewis, Peter R. |
| Conference Name | 2019 IEEE 13th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO) |
| Keywords | behavioural instability, evolution, evolutionary instability, goal-rationality, human factors, interacting systems, interactive systems, Interference, Mathematical model, multi-agent systems, Neurons, psychology, pubcrawl, Rivers, Scalability, shared world, social action, Social Agents, social sciences, social self awareness, socially situated agents, Socio technical systems, sociotechnical systems, software agents, Task Analysis, traditional action |
| Abstract | Two systems pursuing their own goals in a shared world can interact in ways that are not so explicit - such that the presence of another system alone can interfere with how one is able to achieve its own goals. Drawing inspiration from human psychology and the theory of social action, we propose the notion of employing social action in socially situated agents as a means of alleviating interference in interacting systems. Here we demonstrate that these specific issues of behavioural and evolutionary instability caused by the unintended consequences of interactions can be addressed with agents capable of a fusion of goal-rationality and traditional action, resulting in a stable society capable of achieving goals during the course of evolution. |
| DOI | 10.1109/SASO.2019.00021 |
| Citation Key | barnes_social_2019 |
Social Action in Socially Situated Agents