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Formal modelling of emotions in agents is a challenging task. This is mainly due to the absence of a widely accepted theory of emotions as well as the two-way interaction of emotions with mood, perception, personality, communication, etc. In this work, we use the widely accepted dimensional theory of emotions according to which mood is a significant integrated factor for emotional state change and therefore behaviour. The theory is formally modelled as part of a state-based specification which naturally leads towards simulation of multi-agent systems. We demonstrate how moods of individual agents affect the overall behaviour of the crowd in a well-known example, that of the El Farol problem.
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Kefalas, P., Sakellariou, I., Savvidou, S., Stamatopoulou, I., Ntika, M. (2016). The Role of Mood on Emotional Agents Behaviour. In: Nguyen, NT., Iliadis, L., Manolopoulos, Y., Trawiński, B. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. ICCCI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9875. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45243-2_5
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