Connectionists: new book available ---- Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction: From Cognitive Modeling to Social Simulation

[Professor Ron Sun]

new book available ----

Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction:   From Cognitive Modeling to  
Social Simulation

                                               Edited by Ron Sun

                            Published by Cambridge University Press
                http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp? 
isbn=0521839645
This book explores the intersection between cognitive sciences and  
social sciences. In particular, it explores the intersection between  
individual cognitive modeling and modeling of multi-agent interaction  
(social stimulation). The two contributing fields --individual  
cognitive modeling (especially cognitive architectures) and modeling  
of multi-agent interaction (including social simulation and, to some  
extent, multi-agent systems) -- have seen significant growth in  
recent years. However, the interaction of these two fields has not  
been sufficiently developed. We believe that the interaction of the  
two may be more significant than either alone, leading to better  
understanding of both individual cognition and sociocultural  
processes. It is possible that an integrative field of study in  
cognitive and social sciences is emerging and we are laying the  
foundation for it.

• explore a heretofore largely unexplored area

• written by leading researchers in various disciplines

• provide provocative new insights into relevant issues and solid  
research

• intended for researchers and students in cognitive, behavioral, and  
social sciences but may also be read by interested laypersons

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Contents

Part I. Introduction:

1. Prolegomena to integrating cognitive modeling and social  
simulation.  Ron Sun;



Part II. Overviews of Cognitive Architectures:

2. Modeling paradigms in ACT-R.  Niel Taatgen, Christian Lebiere and  
John Anderson;

3. Considering Soar as an agent architecture.  Robert Wray and  
Randolph M. Jones;

4. The CLARION cognitive architecture: extending cognitive modeling  
to social simulation.  Ron Sun;



Part III. Modeling and Simulating Cognitive and Social Processes:

5. Cognitive architectures, game playing, and human evolution.   
Robert West, Christian Lebiere, and Dan Bothell;

6. Simulating a simple case of organizational decision making.  Isaac  
Naveh and Ron Sun;

7. Cognitive modeling of social behaviors.  William J. Clancey,  
Maarten Sierhuis, Bruce Damer, and Boris Brodsky;

8. Cognitive agents interacting in real and virtual worlds.  Brad  
Best and Christian Lebiere;

9. Modeling social emotions and social attributions.  Jonathan  
Gratch, Wenji Mao, and Stacy Marcella;

10. Communicating and collaborating with robotic agents.  J. Gregory  
Trafton, Alan C. Schultz, Nicholas L. Cassimatis, et al;

11. Behavior-based methods for modeling and structuring control of  
social robots.  Dylan Shell and Maja Mataric;

12. Evolution of a teamwork model.  Nathan Schurr, Steven Okamoto,  
Rajiv T. Matheswaran, and Milind Tambe;

13. Sociality in embodied neural agents.  Domenico Parisi and Stefano  
Nolfi;

14. Cognitive architecture and contents for social structures and  
interactions.  Cristiano Castelfranchi;



Part IV. A Symposium:

15. Cognitive science and good social science.  Scott Moss;

16. Collective cognition and emergence in multi-agent systems.   
Pietro Panzarasa and Nick Jennings;

17. Social judgement in multi-agent systems.  Tom Burns and Ewa  
Roszkowska;

18. Including human variability in a cognitive architecture to  
improve team simulation.  Frank Ritter and Emma Norling;

19. When does social simulation need cognitive models?   Nigel Gilbert.

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To order, please go to:

http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521839645
or
http://www.cambridge.org/uk/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521839645

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Professor Ron Sun
Cognitive Science Department
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A
Troy, NY 12180, USA

phone: 518-276-3409
fax:   518-276-3017
email: rsun at rpi.edu
web:   http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun
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