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Adapting Hierarchical Social Organisation by Introducing Fear into an Agent Architecture

  • Pablo Lucas dos Anjos
  • Ruth Aylett
  • Alison Cawsey
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4722)

Abstract

This paper considers possible affective roles in an agent-based social simulation, and in particular the effect of adding a simple model of fear into a replication of an agent-based social simulation.

Keywords

Agent architecture emergence organisation and action-selection 

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Pablo Lucas dos Anjos
    • 1
  • Ruth Aylett
    • 1
  • Alison Cawsey
    • 1
  1. 1.Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences 

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