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A Formal Approach to Model Emotional Agents Behaviour in Disaster Management Situations

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Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications (SETN 2014)

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Emotions in Agent and Multi-Agent Systems change their behaviour to a more ’natural’ way of performing tasks thus increasing believability. This has various implications on the overall performance of a system. In particular in situations where emotions play an important role, such as disaster management, it is a challenge to infuse artificial emotions into agents, especially when a plethora of emotion theories are yet to be fully accepted. In this work, we develop a formal model for agents demonstrating emotional behaviour in emergency evacuation. We use state-based formal methods to define agent behaviour in two layers; one that deals with non-emotional and one dealing with emotional behaviour. The emotional level takes into account emotions structures, personality traits and emotion contagion models. A complete formal definition of the evacuee agent is given followed by a short discussion on visual simulation and results to demonstrate the refinement of the formal model into code.

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  1. The University of Sheffield International Faculty, City College, 3 L. Sofou, 54624, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Petros Kefalas & Ioanna Stamatopoulou

  2. University of Macedonia, 156 Egnatia Str., 54636, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Ilias Sakellariou

  3. South-East European Research Center, 24 P. Koromila, 54622, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Dionysios Basakos

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    Konstantinos Blekas

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Kefalas, P., Sakellariou, I., Basakos, D., Stamatopoulou, I. (2014). A Formal Approach to Model Emotional Agents Behaviour in Disaster Management Situations. In: Likas, A., Blekas, K., Kalles, D. (eds) Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications. SETN 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8445. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07064-3_19

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