Comprehensive Human Oversight over Autonomous Weapon Systems

Simulating Human Routines: Integrating Social Practice Theory in Agent-Based Models

Our routines play an important role in a wide range of social challenges such as climate change, disease outbreaks and coordinating the staff and patients of a hospital. Studying these systems via agent-based simulations (ABS) enables researchers to gain insight into complex aspects of these challenges such as human interaction, learning,...

Value Deliberation: Towards mutual understanding of stakeholder perspectives in policymaking

This research is part of the Values4Water project, which includes TU Delft, Waterschap de Dommel, Deltares, Royal HaskoningDHV and Synmind as consortium partners. Policymaking can involve as many perspectives as there are stakeholders. In case of complex societal policies, many interpretations of the problem are possible and often there is no...

Organizational Compliance: An agent-based model for designing and evaluating organizational interactions

The motivation of this research comes from the need of devising and evaluating solutions to achieving organizational compliance, which is an important factor in ensuring the success of business operations and the safety of business environments. Using normative multi-agent systems as the basis of conceptual design, the OperA+ framework presented...

An Empathic Virtual Buddy for Social Support

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in employing Embodied Conversational Agents (ECAs) as companions or coaches. These roles are typically performed by humans and require exhibiting certain social behaviors, such as providing social support. For interactions between users and coaching or companion ECAs to become truly social,...

Structuring Socio-technical Complexity: Modelling Agent Systems using Institutional Analysis

Socio-technical systems consist of many heterogeneous decision making entities and technological artefacts. These systems are governed through public policy that unravels in a multi-scale institutional context, which ranges from norms and values to technical standards. Simulation, agent-based modelling and simulation (ABMS) in particular, is an...