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Modeling
Inferential Minds In Conceptual Space |
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Authors: |
Carlos Barra,
Enrique Canessa, Sergio E. Chaigneau |
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(2016).ECMS 2016 Proceedings edited
by: Thorsen Claus, Frank Herrmann, Michael Manitz, Oliver Rose, European Council for Modeling and
Simulation. doi:10.7148/2016 ISBN:
978-0-9932440-2-5 30th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Regensburg Germany, May 31st
– June 3rd, 2016 |
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Carlos Barra,
Enrique Canessa, Sergio E. Chaigneau
(2016). Modeling Inferential Minds In Conceptual Space, ECMS 2016 Proceedings
edited by: Thorsten Claus, Frank Herrmann, Michael Manitz,
Oliver Rose European Council for Modeling and
Simulation. doi:10.7148/2016-0131 |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2016-0131 |
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Abstract: |
We present an Agent Based Model (ABM)
named MIMICS (Modeling Inferential Minds in Conceptual Space), which shows
how a social group develops abstract concepts for achieving agreement in
communication. Agents describe concepts by assigning properties to them based
on learning and communication interactions, trying to develop a conceptual
space that discriminates as much as possible between two concepts(i.e.,
they try to assign properties to concepts decreasing the overlap among the
properties that describe them).Contrarily to concrete concepts, those
properties come from the social group and not from objects’ physical
properties. The results show that agents in MIMICS develop abstract concepts
that exhibit the same characteristics that are found in studies of real concepts:
non-uniform frequency distributions of properties, intersubjective
variability and stable concepts that are useful for the simulated social
group by providing agreement in communication. |
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