title: Social Embeddedness and Agent Development
creator: Edmonds, Bruce
subject: Artificial Intelligence
subject: Complexity Theory
subject: Philosophy of Science
subject: Social Psychology
description: Two different reasons for using agents are distinguished: the `engineering' perspective and the `social simulation' perspective. It is argued that this entails some differences in approach. In particular the former will want to prevent unpredictable emergent features of their agent populations whilst the later will want to use simulation to study precisely this phenomena. A concept of `social embeddedness' is explicated which neatly distinguishes the two approaches. It is argued that such embedding in a society is an essential feature of being a truly social agent. This has the consequence that such agents will not sit well within an `engineering' methodology.
date: 1998
type: Conference Paper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/postscript
identifier: http://cogprints.org/533/1/seadA4.ps
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://cogprints.org/533/5/sead.pdf
identifier:   Edmonds, Bruce  (1998) Social Embeddedness and Agent Development.  [Conference Paper]    (Unpublished)  
relation: http://cogprints.org/533/