Cooperative Agents

1 Introduction. - Designing co-operative agents. - 2 What are Agents and what are they for?. - 3 Agent models of Software Technology. - 4 Social norms for co-operative agents. - Agent-based social simulation. - 5 Can agent-based modelling REALLY be useful?. - 6 Fraud Exchange and Cooperation. - 7 Hunting the unicorn. An exploration of the simulation of small group leadership. - 8 /Social Influence among Agents: The Simulation of Social Psychological Theories. - Hybrid forms of interaction between humans and artificial agents. - 9 Enrolling Software Agents in Human Organizations. The Exploration of Hybrid Organizations within the Socionics Research Program. - 10 Hybrid Learning Communities in Agent-based Intelligent Distributed Learning Environments An Application for Socionics' Research. - 11/Agent-Based Modeling and Simulation for Hospital Management. - Author Index. Language: English