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A Framework Covering the Influence of ffm/neo pi-r Traits over the Dialogical Process of Rational Agents

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In this article we address coverage and comprehensiveness issues raised by the integration of a large class of psychological phenomena into rational dialogical agents. These two issues are handled through the definition of a generic framework based on the notion of personality engine, which makes it possible to reify in separate modules in one hand the application-dependent parts and on the other hand the resources involved in the representation of the psychological phenomena. We introduce an enriched taxonomy of personality traits, based on the well-used ffm/neo pi-r taxonomy and we show how it can be applied on an example of agents, taken from the literature. Then we introduce the necessary concepts for modeling a personality engine. A case study, using a simplified world of dialogical agents, shows how those agents can be provided with a personality engine affecting the way they communicate with each other, and demonstrates how it can be used to implement the example. Finally, we compare our approach to other attempts at implementing personality features in rational agents.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Complete coverage has been attempted for emotions, as in OCC [28].

  2. 2.

    Each facet has a positive (resp. negative) pole noted \(+\) (resp. \(-\)) associated with the concept (resp. the antonym of the concept). Facets are referred to using the name of their \(+\) pole.

  3. 3.

    A gloss is a short natural language phrase defining intuitively a lexical semantics sense, as found in dictionaries or in WordNet synsets [12].

  4. 4.

    http://perso.limsi.fr/jps/research/rnb/toolkit/taxo-glosses/taxo.htm

  5. 5.

    http://ipip.ori.org/newNEOKey.htm

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    Like facets, schemes are bipolar and are often referred to by their +pole.

  7. 7.

    Using ‘the’ raises issues of existence (no possible influences found) and unicity (several distinct sets found thus prompting an order relation).

  8. 8.

    Except for first line of Table 3 (O fantasy -practical), which is similar to a line generic-agent as this trait can be viewed as Bratman’s notion of practical reason (1987).

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Sansonnet, JP., Bouchet, F. (2014). A Framework Covering the Influence of ffm/neo pi-r Traits over the Dialogical Process of Rational Agents. In: Filipe, J., Fred, A. (eds) Agents and Artificial Intelligence. ICAART 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 449. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44440-5_4

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