NDLI: A Multi-Agent Approach to Social Human Behaviour in Children's Play

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Author	Derakhshan, Alireza Demazeau, Yves Lund, Henrik Hautop Hammer, Frodi
Abstract	This paper introduces a multi-agent system (MAS) approach for modelling social behaviours in children's play. The children, the dynamics of their play, and the playground are modelled into a MAS following the VOWELS [2] paradigm; thus, modelling the children as the agents, the playground as the environment, and the dynamics of their play as the interactions and organization. Utilizing the Playware playground [8, 9] as the environment, an interface to the environment can be defined, which allows us to formally model the children and the dynamics of their play (i.e. their individual and social behaviour) as populations and organizations in accordance with the PopOrg [3] paradigm. The MAS model has been used to design an artificial neural network (ANN) architecture capable of classifying social behaviours within appropriate categories. Experiments with children have been performed, and data recorded from the Playware playground during the experiments has been used to train the ANN. The ANN has been validated according to an external observer to correctly classify 70% of the social behaviours observed during the experiments.
Starting Page	403
Ending Page	406
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769527485
DOI	10.1109/IAT.2006.14
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2006-12-18
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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A Multi-Agent Approach to Social Human Behaviour in Children's Play