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Approaching Interactions in Agent-Based Modelling with an Affordance Perspective

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Engineering Multi-Agent Systems (EMAS 2017)

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Over the last years, the affordance concept has attracted more and more attention in agent-based simulation. Due to its grounding in cognitive science, we assume that it may help a modeller to capture possible interactions in the modelling phase as it can be used to clearly state under which circumstances an agent might execute a particular action with a particular environmental entity.

In this discussion paper we clarify the concept of affordance and introduce a light-weight formalization of the notions in a way appropriate for agent-based simulation modelling. We debate its suitability for capturing interaction compared to other approaches.

This paper has already been published in: \(\copyright \) Springer International Publishing AG 2017. G. Sukthankar and J. A. Rodriguez-Aguilar (Eds.): AAMAS 2017 Best Papers, LNAI 10642, pp. 222-238, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71682-4_14.

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    Our idea of an affordance schema is on a higher abstraction level than what W. Kuhn called “Image Schema” in [26]. He describes an environmental constellation using spatial categories and connects them to a process that they afford.

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    Franziska Klügl

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Klügl, F., Timpf, S. (2018). Approaching Interactions in Agent-Based Modelling with an Affordance Perspective. In: El Fallah-Seghrouchni, A., Ricci, A., Son, T. (eds) Engineering Multi-Agent Systems. EMAS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10738. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91899-0_2

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