Logics for Social Behaviour: An Editorial

Neurobiology of behaviour. Editorial overview.

John H Byrne is currently the Professor and Chairman of the Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy and Director of the Neuroscience Research Center at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. He is also the Director of the WM Keck Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory at the UT Health Science Center. His research uses a combination of experimental and computational approa...

An efficient method for sorting and selecting for social behaviour

1. In social contexts, animal behaviour is often studied in terms of group-level characteristics. One clear example of this is the collective motion of animals in decentralised structures, such as bird flocks and fish schools. A major goal of research is to identify how group-level behaviours are shaped by the traits of individuals within them. Few methods exist to make these connections. Indiv...

Extended Modal Logics for Social Software

This is a short motivational report on work that we have done in two specific areas of Social Software, i.e. Coalitional Games and Judgement Aggregation. We argue that Extended Modal Logics prove to be particularly successful in the modeling and axiomatisation of reasoning problems in those areas. Here, we restrict ourselves to a description of the domains: technical details are to be found in ...

An Energy-Driven Social Behaviour Network Architecture

The motivation of this paper is to realize an energy-driven self-organising architecture of Social Behaviour Networks(SoBeNet) for the Web application. Internet agents can sense changes in the web environment via virtual web sensors and behavior selection is based on the energy spreading mechanism from the bottom-up paradigm of AI. There is no global coordinator module to control behavior selec...

Disease and social behaviour; an interdisciplinary perspective