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Mind as a Service: Building Socially Intelligent Agents

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Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XI (COIN 2015)

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The ability to exhibit social behaviour is paramount for agents to be able to engage in meaningful interaction with people. In fact, agents are social beings at the core. That is, agent behaviour is the result of more than just rational, goal-oriented deliberation. This requires novel agent architectures that start from and integrate different socio-cognitive elements such as emotions, social norms and personality. Current agent architectures however, do not support the construction of social agents in a structured, modular and computational- and design-efficient manner. Inspired by service-orientation concepts, in this paper we propose MaaS (Mind as a Service) as a modular architecture for agent systems that enables the composition of different socio-cognitive capabilities into a running system. Depending on the characteristics of the domain, agent’s deliberation will require different social capabilities. We propose to model these capabilities as services, and define a ‘Deliberation Bus’ that enables to design deliberation as a composition of services. This approach allows to define deliberation architectures that are situational and dependent on the available components in order to cope with the complexity of social and physical environments in parallel. We furthermore propose a Service Interface Descriptor language to encapsulate service functionalities in a uniform way.

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    Such as is advocated e.g. by the Human Brain Project (https://www.humanbrainproject.eu/).

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    Virginia Dignum

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  2. IIIA-CSIC , Barcelona, Spain

    Pablo Noriega

  3. Ozyegin University , Istanbul, Turkey

    Murat Sensoy

  4. University of Sao Paulo , Sao Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

    Jaime Simão Sichman

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Dignum, V. (2016). Mind as a Service: Building Socially Intelligent Agents. In: Dignum, V., Noriega, P., Sensoy, M., Sichman, J. (eds) Coordination, Organizations, Institutions, and Norms in Agent Systems XI. COIN 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9628. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42691-4_7

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