TY  - UNPB
ID  - cogprints533
UR  - http://cogprints.org/533/
A1  - Edmonds, Bruce
TI  - Social Embeddedness and Agent Development
Y1  - 1998///
N2  - Two different reasons for using agents are distinguished: the `engineering' perspective and the `social simulation' perspective. It is argued that this entails some differences in approach. In particular the former will want to prevent unpredictable emergent features of their agent populations whilst the later will want to use simulation to study precisely this phenomena. A concept of `social embeddedness' is explicated which neatly distinguishes the two approaches. It is argued that such embedding in a society is an essential feature of being a truly social agent. This has the consequence that such agents will not sit well within an `engineering' methodology.
AV  - public
KW  - agent
KW  -  development
KW  -  embedding
KW  -  social embedding
KW  -  social
KW  -  design
KW  -  El Farol
KW  -  simulation
KW  -  engineering
KW  -  methodology
ER  -

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