ISBN:
9780199812684
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (201 pages)
Series Statement:
Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Social norms
;
Manners and customs
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Norms spread across cultures and centuries. Nonetheless, a unifying treatment is missing and the dynamics of norms is insufficiently understood. This volume presents an unprecedented attempt to illustrate via agent based simulation the emergence of norms meant as prescribed conducts applied by the majority. The simulated scenarios are populated with cognitive agents generating norms by detecting and deciding to respect them.
Abstract:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Why a new book on norms? -- 1.2 Why a book on cognition? -- 1.3 Our perspective and approach -- 1.4 Presentation of the volume and questions addressed -- 1.5 How to read the book -- 1.6 Acknowledgements -- 2. Loops in Social Dynamics -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The way up: Emergence -- 2.3 The way back: Downward causation -- 2.3.1 Simple loop -- 2.3.2 Complex loop Incorporation -- 2.4 Advantages of the present approach -- 2.5 Concluding remarks -- 3. Agent-Based Social Simulation and Its Necessity for Understanding Socially Embedded Phenomena -- 3.1 Cognitive simulation modeling -- 3.2 Agent-based architectures and frameworks -- 3.3 The social intelligence hypothesis -- 3.4 Social embeddedness -- 3.5 Micro-macro complexity -- 3.6 Types of social simulation -- 3.7 Linking plausible theory and observed evidence -- 3.8 Relevance vs. generality in simulation -- 3.9 Emergence and immergence in simulations -- 3.10 Conclusion -- 4. How Are Norms Brought About? A State of the Art of Current Research -- 4.1 Norms between conventions and legal norms -- 4.2 The game-theoretical framework of simulating norms -- 4.2.1 Simulation models -- 4.2.2 Analysis -- 4.3 The cognitive method of modelling norms -- 4.3.1 Analysis -- 4.4 Norms in current architectures -- 4.4.1 Normative modules -- 4.4.2 Norm conflicts -- 4.4.3 Concepts of norms -- 4.4.4 Drawbacks of cognitive architectures -- 4.5 Results and unresolved questions -- 5. Modeling Hume's Theory of Norm Emergence -- 5.1 Introduction and motivation -- 5.2 Interaction structure and specialization -- 5.3 The structure: Local groups and a central market -- 5.4 Matching agents -- 5.5 Learning -- 5.6 A benchmark: Wealth under universal trust and trustworthiness -- 5.7 The evolution of trust and division of labor-some first simulation studies.
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