The theory of social functions: Challenges for computational social science and multi-agent learning

Cognitive Systems Research

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 5-38

  Castelfranchi, Cristiano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cognitive architecture; Emergence; Intention; Learning; agents; Social functions; Social simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038363831     PISSN: 13890417     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-0417(01)00013-4     Document Type: Article

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