Agent&Society

Agent&Society
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Standpoints: Agent and Society
• Societal Influence of Agent Technology
• STS (Science, Technology and Society)
• Agent Society (Multi-Agent)
• Distributed AI
• Communityware
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STS
• A Series of Videotapes:
Interactions in Science and Society
• STS(Science, Technology and Society)
• Emphasizing on Societal Viewpoints for
Science and Technology
• Importance of Critical Thinking
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Critical Thinking
• Aim: What to believe, and what to do?
• Questions:
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What is the science and technology like?
What are the societal realms like?
What are the interactions?
What ought we do or decide?
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Decision Making and Problem Solving
• To do:
• Information Gathering
• Comparing and Contrasting
• Judging Effects
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What is the nature of the problem?
What are the options?
What are the consequences of each option?
Which option is best?
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分散人工知能
Distributed Artificial Intelligence
• 石田亨&桑原和宏:, AI学会誌解説
分散人工知能
(1):協調問題解決,Nov. 1992.
(2):交渉と均衡化,Jan.1993.
Distributed Artificial Intelligence,
(1) Cooperative Problem Solving
(2) Negotiation and Balancing
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Communityware
• Kyoto Meeting on Social Interaction and
Communityware, 1998.
• Leonard N. Foner: Community Formation
via a Distributed, Privacy-Protecting
Matchmaking System
Yenta system
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Yenta
• Finding people who share your interests and
helping to form a community
• Finding the user’s interest by examining the
personal files
• Finding groups of similar users in a
decentralized way– matchmaking based on
the social/collaborative filtering
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口コミ機構による情報流通
Information Dissemination with
Word-of-Mouth Method
• 資料による説明
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G3:ネットワークサービス
• ネットワーク上の情報サービスについて考えま
しょう
Issue: Information Services on the Internet
• Internet上の情報サービスをいろいろ見つける
Find out information services on the Internet.
• 新しい情報サービス案を考える
Think out new ideas of information services.
• 重要なこと: 数と多様性
Points: Number and Variety of Ideas
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