Building on Simmel's theoretical foundations, sociological process theorists continue to
challenge mainstream social theory. So far, however, they have rarely relied on formal …

A lengthy and intensive debate about the role of sociology in agent based social simulation
dominated the email list simsoc@ jiscmail. ac. uk during the autumn of 2000. The debate …

In this paper, we present an abstract structure called dependence graph, an extension of the
notion of dependence network, as proposed in [16]. While this latter can be applied to …

When the micro-units of emerging dynamic processes are cognitive agents, a very important
and unique phenomenon arises, called Cognitive Emergence (CE). We argue that: CE …

This paper applies the two-party dependence theory (Castelfranchi, Cesta and Miceli, 1992,
in Y. Demazeau and E. Werner (Eds.) Decentralized AI-3, Elsevier, North Holland) to …

This paper has two basic aims: the first is to understand why networks matter in the creation
and maintenance of social capital; the second is to explore many of the (unproved) …

Many democratically elected representative governments around the world require the
formation of a coalition to create a government that is expected to be durable and stable …

A hub port logistics deals with thousands of daily transfers thanks to a multimodal transport.
A crucial challenge in this domain is to avoid delays in the global supply chain and to ensure …

Often, the problems encountered by applications and developments of software agents
require further investigation and improvements of agents' social capacities, that is, of the …

The marriage between AI, on one hand, and economic and strategic rationality, on the other,
is unavoidable: there are too strong" elective affinities". For many purposes and domains …