Agent-Based Models as Scientific Methodology: A Case Study Analysing the DomWorld Theory of Primate Social Structure and Female Dominance (pdf)
Joanna J. Bryson, Yasushi Ando & Hagen Lehmann, from Modelling Natural Action Selection (Seth, Prescott & Bryson eds.), CUP, 2011.
The discussion is updated from our 2007 PTRS-B article, though the models are not. Penultimate draft from 2010, related (including improved) software is available here.
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Modelling Natural Action Selection
An expanded and updated version of our 2007 PTRS-B special issue which was a condensed version of our 2005 conference proceedings. I think this is the last version of this work we’ll see since we’ve now run through all the primary permutations for the order of the editors (see below).
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Just an Artifact: Why Machines Are Perceived as Moral Agents (pdf)
Joanna J. Bryson and Philip P. Kime, in the proceedings of The Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '11).
Final camera-ready version from April 2011. This is a substantial updating & improvement of one of my (and Phil’s) very first papers “Just Another Artifact” which we gave at a workshop in 1998.
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An Agent-Based Model of the Effects of a Primate Social Structure on the Speed of Natural Selection (pdf)
Gideon M. Gluckmann & Joanna J. Bryson, in Evolutionary Computation and Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation (ECoMASS) at GECCO 2011 in Dublin.
The paper is final from April 2011.
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A Role for Consciousness in Action Selection (pdf) [Draft]
Joanna J. Bryson, in Proceedings of the AISB 2011 Symposium Machine Consciousness.
Post-final version with typos corrected & a sensible citation style from April 2011. There’s now an improved journal version, see 2012 above
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Procedural Quests: A Focus for Agent Interaction in Role-Playing-Games (pdf)
John Grey and Joanna J. Bryson, in Proceedings of the AISB 2011 Symposium AI & Games.
Final version from March 2011.
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