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Mirror Worlds as Agent Societies Situated in Mixed Reality Environments

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Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X (COIN 2014)

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Abstract

Last years have seen the raise of several contexts such as Ambient Intelligence, Augmented Reality where Artificial Intelligence is combined with other domains such as Ubiquitous Computing, Sensor Network Technologies in order to provide proactive and responsive services to users. However, these systems are most of the times ad hoc, lacking a conceptual foundation. In this paper we provide a broad overview of mirror worlds, as physically situated agent societies, useful in particular as a framework for investigating inter-disciplinary aspects – from cognition to interaction, cooperation, governance – concerning future smart environments and cities shaped as large-scale mixed-reality systems.

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Notes

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    in the remainder of the paper, we will use the acronym MW to refer either the singular (mirror world) or the plural (mirror worlds), depending on the context.

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    http://www.metaio.com/.

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  1. University of Bologna, via Venezia 52, Cesena, Italy

    Alessandro Ricci

  2. Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie Della Cognizione - CNR, Rome, Italy

    Luca Tummolini & Cristiano Castelfranchi

  3. Reply, Rome, Italy

    Michele Piunti

  4. FAYOL- ENS Mines and LHC CNRS:UMR5516, Saint-Étienne, France

    Olivier Boissier

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Ricci, A., Tummolini, L., Piunti, M., Boissier, O., Castelfranchi, C. (2015). Mirror Worlds as Agent Societies Situated in Mixed Reality Environments. In: Ghose, A., Oren, N., Telang, P., Thangarajah, J. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems X. COIN 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9372. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25420-3_13

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