Interplay of ethical trust and social moral norms: Environment modelling and computational mechanisms in agent-based social simulation (ABSS)

  • Authors:

  • H. C. Lim;Rob Stocker;Michael Barlow;Henry Larkin

  • Affiliations:

  • (Correspd.) SEIT, UNSW@ADFA, Northcott Drive, Canberra 2600, Australia, E-mail: {hc.lim,r.stocker,m.barlow}@adfa.edu.au;SEIT, UNSW@ADFA, Northcott Drive, Canberra 2600, Australia, E-mail: {hc.lim,r.stocker,m.barlow}@adfa.edu.au;SEIT, UNSW@ADFA, Northcott Drive, Canberra 2600, Australia, E-mail: {hc.lim,r.stocker,m.barlow}@adfa.edu.au;Spatial Media Group, University of Aizu, Aizu-Wakamatsu-shi Fukushima-ken 965-8580, Japan, E-mail: research@logic.nu

  • Venue:
  • Web Intelligence and Agent Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In many agent-based models theoretical and computational mechanisms are needed for model abstraction and design. However, it can be challenging to arrive at the appropriate mechanisms and models. This research on the interplay of ethical trust and social moral norms addresses that challenge via an analytical framework on the spread of moral norms, the modelling of social environment and the selection of spread mechanisms as applied to agent-based social simulation. We describe the mechanism alignment mapping, two forms of interaction modelling between the social environment and agents, and the results obtained from the simulation of our computational model. These results provide an insight into how the agent-based paradigm can be applied as a technique of investigation for normative moral processes in computational social sciences.