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Emotion Modeling in Social Simulation: A Survey

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Bourgais, Mathieu, Taillandier, Patrick, Vercouter, Laurent, Adam, Carole·2018·Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
DOI 10.18564/jasss.3681
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Emotions play a key role in human behavior.Being able to integrate them in models is therefore a major issue to improve the believability of agent-based social simulations.However, and despite the emergence of many emotional models usable for simulations in the last few years, many modelers still tend to use too simple ad hoc emotional models.To support this view, this article proposes a survey of the different practices of modelers in terms of implementations of emotional models, as well as a presentation of different emotional architectures that already exist and that could be used by modelers.The main goal is to understand how emotions are used today in social simulations, in order for the community to unify its uses of emotional agents.

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Figure 2 Schema of the DETT architecture taken from Van Dyke Parunak et al. (2006) (p.3)
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Authors
Bourgais, M., Taillandier, P., Vercouter, L., & Adam, C.
Affiliations
  • Laboratoire d'Informatique, du Traitement de l'Information et des Systèmes (FR)
  • Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (FR)
  • Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (FR)
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Venue
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Publisher
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
Published
2018
Volume
21
Issue
2
ISSN
1460-7425 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.18564/jasss.3681
OpenAlex
W2794810572
Cited by
46
References
1
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FWCI
2.72
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
cc-by
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  • Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • HAL (submittedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • HAL (submittedVersion, other-oa)
Funders
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-14-CE22-0002)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Multi-Agent Systems and Negotiation
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Psychiatry, Mental Health, Neuroscience
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Emotion and Mood Recognition
Keywords
emotion modeling, emotional agents, agent-based social simulation, emotional architecture, agent believability, human behavior

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