In a given environment, agents interact with each other, imitating, communicating, exchanging, and competing. Based on these heterogeneous modalities of interaction, a variety of socialities may emerge including language and communication, identities, economies, and cultures.

The Handbook of Research on Agent-Based Societies: Social and Cultural Interactions addresses the emergence of societal phenomena in the interactions of systems of agents. Comprising authoritative chapters by numerous international authors, this reference book goes well beyond describing the next generation of multi-agent systems in simulations and system engineering and analyzes existing systems to stimulate the development of new ones.

Coverage:

The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Agent cognitive capabilities
Agent feedback messaging
Agent-based societies
Agents and social interaction
Agents in security
Biological and artificial agents
Cultural information transmission
Distributed message delivery
Emergent reasoning structures in law
Human mirror neuron system
Interaction of agent in e-business
Mapping hybrid agencies
Propositional logic syntax acquisition
Reinforcement Learning
Search as a tool for emergence
Social emergence
Social transmission for partner selection
Temporally variant agent interaction
Training coordination proxy agents
Virtual Learning Environments

Reviews & Statements

This volume addresses all of these issues, in particular the emergence of societal phenomena in the interactions of systems of agents (software, robot or human).

– Goran Trajkovski, Laureate Education Inc., USA

This book has collected research from all over the world on the interactions of agents and multi-agent systems within societies in human, robotic, and software form.

– Book News Inc. (May 2009)

The ambitious anthology explores the application of agent-based models to society and culture.

– John Bragin, UCLA Human Complex Systems Program. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Stimulation (2009)

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Editor/Author Biographies

Goran Trajkovski is the Director of Product Strategy and Design for IT/Engineering at Laureate Higher Education Group (Baltimore, MD, USA). Dr. Trajkovski holds a BSc in applied informatics, MSc in mathematical and computer sciences, and PhD in computer sciences from the University "Ss Cyril and Methodius," (Skopje, Macedonia). He was the Chair of the Department of Information Technologies of South University and associate professor of IT at its Savannah (GA) campus. He was previously the founding director of the Cognitive Agency and Robotics Laboratory (CARoL) at Towson University (MD, USA). The virtual version of CARoL now exists in Second Life. He has taught at Towson University (MD, USA), West Virginia University (WV, USA), and the University "Ss Cyril and Methodius," (Skopje, Macedonia). His research focuses on cognitive and developmental robotics, interaction, and emergent phenomena in agent societies. He is an affiliate of the Institute for Interactivist Studies at Lehigh University and a member of the organizing committee of the biannual Interactivist Summer Institutes. He has authored over 200 publications, including ten books and edited volumes. He has chaired two symposia for the Association for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. Trajkovski is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Agent Technologies and Systems, published by IGI Global. His work has been funded by the NSF, the National Academies of the Sciences, and OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project).

Samuel Collins is associate professor of Anthropology at Towson University. His research includes cybernetics, information society, globalization and the future, both in the United States and in South Korea. He is the author of All Tomorrow’s Cultures: Anthropological Engagements with the Future and Library of Walls: The Library of Congress and the Contradictions of Information Society.

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Editorial Advisory Board

Shah Jamal Alam, Centre for Policy Modelling, UK

Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania, Romania

Susanne Barber, The University of Texas, USA

Olivier Boissier, Ecole Natiionale Surerieure des Mines Saint-Etienne, France

Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA

James Braman, Towson University, USA

Joseph Bullington, Georgia Southern University, USA

Marco Campenni, ISTC-CNR, Italy

Federico Cecconi, ISTC-CNR, Italy

Paul Davidsson, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden

Stefano DeLuca, evodevo, Italy

Deborah Duong, Office of the Secretary of Defense, USA

Adrian Gardner, Georgia Southern University, USA

Paolo Giorgini, University of Trento, Italy

Daniela Godoy, ISISTAN, UNICEN University, Argentina

David Newlin, RTI International, USA

Ann Nowe, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium

Gregory M.P. O'Hare, University College Dublin, Ireland

Mario Paolucci, CNR, Italy, Italy

Michal Pechoucek, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic

Oliver Popov, Mid Sweden University, Sweden

Theodor Richardson, South University, USA

Wilhem Rossak, FSU Jena, Germany

Josefina Sierra, Universidad Polit\'ecnica de Catalu\~na, Spain

Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

John Symons, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

Maksim Tsvetovat, George Mason University, USA

Giovanni Vincenti, Gruppo Vincenti, S.r.l., Italy

Vern Walker, Hofstra University, USA