Rational actors? Hippias and Aristogeiton

Rational Actors , Political Argument , and Democratic Deliberation

Social constructs and boundedly rational actors: A simulation framework

In this paper we sketch a framework for multi-actor simulation of an organization. In contrast to many approaches to multi-actor simulation, we design the actors as cognitively plausible actors. The interaction and cooperation of the actors is based on social constructs. In elaborating a cognitive perspective on actors, we use the cognitive architecture ACT-R for modelling the individual actors...

Boundedly Rational Agents Playing the Social Actors Game

In any organizational setting, each of the participating actors adopts a quite steady behavior with respect to others. This behavior is not always in line with what might be expected given the role of the actor, although it is quite cooperative and most often contributes significantly to the proper operation of the organization. Within the framework of the SocLab approach for the modeling and a...

Arranging Cooperative Business Activities in Dynamic Coalitions of Rational Actors

The paper addresses cooperation issues in dynamic distributed business process management enabled by the coalitions of task performing economically rational agents. Tasks are understood as partially ordered sets of activities performed in interaction between participants according to a defined set of rules in order to achieve a common goal. Agents represent intelligent actors having their roles...

Rational actors or rational fools: implications of the affect heuristic for behavioral economics

This paper describes two fundamental modes of thinking. The experiential mode, is intuitive, automatic, natural, and based upon images to which positive and negative affective feelings have been attached through learning and experience. The other mode is analytic, deliberative, and reason based. I describe recent empirical research illuminating “the affect heuristic” wherein people rapidly cons...