Cognitive Social Simulation Incorporating Cognitive Architectures

  • Authors:
  • Ron Sun

  • Affiliations:
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Intelligent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Agent-based social simulation with multiagent systems--an important aspect of social computing--can benefit from incorporating cognitive architectures, which provide a realistic basis for modeling individual agents and therefore their social interactions. A cognitive architecture is a domain-generic computational cognitive model that may be used for a broad (multiple-domain) analysis of individual behavior. This article gives an example of a cognitive architecture called Clarion and presents three case studies demonstrating its application to social simulation. This article is part of a special issue on social computing.