A BDI Dialogue Agent for Social Support: Specification and Evaluation Method (extended abstract)

An important task for empathic agents is to provide social support, that is, to help alleviate emotional distress. In this paper we specify verbal support types for a dialogue agent that provides social support, and propose an evaluation method for such an agent in a sensitive domain (cyberbullying) with a vulnerable target audience (children).

Norm Contextualization (extended abstract)

A context-aware normative structure in MAS

Agent-based Simulation for Complex Social Systems: Support for the Developer

Norm contextualization

Agents interact with each other within a set of norms, which is expressed at different levels of abstraction that capture different con- texts and operationalizations. Current normative frameworks deal with norm operationalization, yet few consider the contextual aspects of norms. Moreover, most frameworks are based on the independent...

A BDI Dialogue Agent for Social Support: Specification and Evaluation Method

An important task for empathic agents is to provide social support, that is, to help people increase their well-being and decrease the perceived burden of their problems. The contributions of this paper are 1) the specifcation of speech acts for a social support dialogue agent, and 2) an evaluation method for this agent. The dialogue agent...

A Context-aware Normative Structure in MAS (extended abstract)

Contextualized Institutions in Virtual Organizations (abstract)

An Agent Based Inter-organizational Collaboration Framework: OperA+ (extended abstract)

Governance of Services: A Natural Function for Agents (extended abstract)

Simulating Peer Support for Victims of Cyberbullying

This paper proposes a design for an Embodied Conversational Agent (ECA) that empowers victims of cyberbullying by simulating peer support. The anti-cyberbullying buddy helps a child to cope with negative emotions due to a cyberbullying incident and it shows the child how to deal with future incidents of cyberbullying. The buddy interacts with...

Keeping the Trainee on Track (extended abstract)

Human-Agent Team Formation: An Empirical Study

Using Agent-based Organisational Models for Crisis Management (extended abstract)

OperA and Brahms: A symphony? Integrating Organizational and Emergent Views on Agent-Based Modeling (extended abstract)

Agent-basedf modeling and simulation for the social scientist