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THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF COMPUTER SCIENCE

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NSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY

Project: Emotion and Artificial Social Systems



 

Daniel Moldt, Christian von Scheve

One of the important issues in the social sciences and in distributed artificial intelligence research (i.e. in multi-agent systems) alike is the micro-macro link, i.e. the question of how individual action and social structures are interrelated. Our research has identified emotion as one possible key component in this link. Unfortunately, sociological theories of emotion remain relatively basic in this respect and do not refer to emotion research from other disciplines in great detail. In this project, we examine emotion theories and models from cognitive science, psychology, neuroscience, and computer science and their possible contributions to sociological issues in emotion research. The goal of the project is to relate specific micro-macro aspects of emotion theory with general sociological issues of social structural dynamics, both in natural and artificial social systems. The issues range from the role of emotion in decision making, action selection, planning and belief formation/revision to behavior in interactive contexts, e.g. cooperation, coordination, trust, conflict, conflict resolution, and norm compliance. A further issue to be investigated in this respect is the emergence of collective emotions in large-scale social environments (natural and artificial) and their impact on individual and global system behavior.
 

Duration: since 01/2001

Keywords: Emotion, Multi-Agent Systems, Artificial Social Systems, Social Simulation, Micro-Macro Dynamics

Publications

[C.v.Scheve] [D. Moldt] [TGI]


Letzte Änderung: 20:55 04.11.2004
Daniel Moldt