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Towards More Explicit Interaction Modelling in Agent-Based Simulation Using Affordance Schemata

Authors : Franziska Klügl, Sabine Timpf

Published in: KI 2021: Advances in Artificial Intelligence

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Modelling agent-environment interactions in an agent-based simulation requires careful design choices. Selecting an interaction partner forms an often neglected, but essential element.

In this paper we introduce affordance schemata as an element of agent-based simulation models. We describe how affordances can be generated based on them during a running simulation to capture action potential that an interaction partner offers. We illustrate the introduced concepts with a small proof-of-concept implementation.

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We assume that all agents use the same affordance-based architecture.

The condition that the entity e is of type EType could actually be part of the condition. Yet, as our goal is to make modelling of interaction partner selection more clear, we decided to separate EType from condition.

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Title: Towards More Explicit Interaction Modelling in Agent-Based Simulation Using Affordance Schemata
Authors: Franziska Klügl
Sabine Timpf
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Book: KI 2021: Advances in Artificial Intelligence
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-87625-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-030-87626-5

Copyright Year: 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87626-5_24

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