Socially-Aware Multiagent Learning: Towards Socially Optimal Outcomes

SA-IGA: A Multiagent Reinforcement Learning Method Towards Socially Optimal Outcomes

In multiagent environments, the capability of learning is important for an agent to behave appropriately in face of unknown opponents and dynamic environment. From the system designer’s perspective, it is desirable if the agents can learn to coordinate towards socially optimal outcomes, while also avoiding being exploited by selfish opponents. To this end, we propose a novel gradient ascent bas...

Towards Socially Aware Mobile Phones

Mobile phones currently represent the most pervasive technology for enabling social networking. They collect a wide range of socially meaningful data, such as address book contacts, pictures, call logs and exchanged messages. This data, however, is highly underutilized as it is managed by separate applications which are typically unaware of the user’s social setting. This “unawareness” makes th...

Whistleblowing in the Wind Towards a Socially Situated Research Agenda: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Socially-Aware Informal Learning Support: Potentials and Challenges of the Social Dimension

With increasingly conceiving learning as a social activity, technological support must become more aware of the social context of the individual in order to be able to provide adequate support. But many issues related to making systems socially aware are subject to ongoing research, e.g., the description and mining social relationships, and especially privacy preservation. This paper wants to g...

Towards the Development of a Socially-Informed, Process-Oriented Model of Research in Metadiscourse

Since the early development of interest in the interpersonal dimensions of academic communication in the 1980s, the analytic potentials of the concept of metadiscourse have motivated a large number of investigations. Although these analytic potentials have facilitated the study of diverse academic genres, there has always been a risk of detachment of textual analyses form the contextual origins...