Modélisation et simulation multi-agent de la formation et de la dynamique d'attitudes basées sur les croyances. (Modelling and simulating attitudes formation and dynamics using beliefs)

We study in this thesis the problem of social attitude formation and dynamics using multi agent simulation. The concept of attitude could be defined as a global evaluation of a social object, based on cognitive or affective information. Our works belongs to the field of social simulation which aims to reproduce in a virtual environment complex social phenomenon at a macroscopic level based on microscopic representations of individuals and their interactions. While existing approaches in this field rarely consider the results of studies in human sciences on the topic of attitude, we propose to follow a psychomimtic approach by microfounding the cognitive model of our agents on human and social sciences’ theories