E-commerce, Virtual Enterprises and digital media rights management are examples of important application domains where independently developed information systems must form coherent and stable "societies". Societies are considered stable if the behaviour and the interactions of the members are norm-governed. To investigate such normative behaviour we propose a new formal model of open artifici...

MASTER (Multi-Agent System for Text Emotion Representation) is an artificial society in which each member has a digital emotional state. Member agents attempt to influence each other’s emotions by reciting “poems” to each other which express their own emotional state. As agents do this, larger texts are developed in the society through social learning. The resulting texts are not meaningful in ...

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A multiagent system may be thought of as an artificial society of autonomous software agents and we can apply concepts borrowed from welfare economics and social choice theory to assess the social welfare of such an agent society. In this paper, we study an abstract negotiation framework where agents can agree on multilateral deals to exchange bundles of indivisible resources. We then analyse h...

Using the agent based simulation model Sociodynamica, I explore the effect of various intensities of feelings of shame in cementing social bonds that affect the aggregate health (average longevity of agents) and wealth (GDP) of two artificial societies: A primitive society with no division of labor, and a monetized society with division of labor for three different tasks. The results show that ...

On grounds of the discussed material, we reason about possible future development of quantum game theory and its impact on information processing and the emerging information society. The idea of quantum artificial intelligence is explained. PACS Classification: 02.50.Le, 03.67.Lx, 05.50.+q, 05.30.d Mathematics Subject Classification: 81-02, 91-02, 91A40, 81S99