This work gives an overview of the broad field of computational swarm intelligence and its applications in swarm robotics. Computational swarm intelligence is modelled on the social behavior of animals and its principle application is as an optimization technique. Swarm robotics is a relatively new and rapidly developing field which draws inspiration from swarm intelligence. It is an interestin...

Two studies found positive relationships between the ability to manage emotions and the quality of social interactions, supporting the predictive and incremental validity of an ability measure of emotional intelligence, the Mayer-Salovey-Caruso Emotional Intelligence Test (MSCEIT). In a sample of 118 American college students (Study 1), higher scores on the managing emotions subscale of the MSC...

The evolution of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a scientific endeavor has radically changed focus in the las decade from purely individual intelligent behavior to include the social phenomena emerging from interaction of individual intelligent agents. The argument we’ll present is twofold. First, we will review how the inherited notions of intelligence and rationality in scientific fields were...

With the recent advances of Internet Things, and increasing accessibility ubiquitous computing resources mobile devices, prevalence rich media contents, ensuing social, economic, cultural changes, technology applications have evolved quickly over past decade. They now go beyond personal computing, facilitating collaboration social interactions in general, causing a quick proliferation relations...

Social Computing (SC) requires agents to reason seamlessly both on their social relationships and on their goals, beliefs. We claim the need to explicitly represent the social state and social relationships as resources, available to agents. We built a framework, based on JaCaMo, where this vision is realized and SC is implemented through social commitments and commitment protocols. 1998 ACM Su...

It is an honor to have this chance to tie together themes from my recent research, and to sketch some challenges and opportunities for NLG in face-to-face conversational interaction. Communication reflects our general involvement in one anothers’ lives. Through the choices we manifest with one another, we share our thoughts and feelings, strengthen our relationships and further our joint projec...

The ability to make sense out of the actions of others is critical to people's daily functioning. Adults are social experts: They understand that people's actions are directed at goals and are driven by intentions. In this article, the authors highlight key findings from studies examining infants' understanding of human action. These findings suggest that infants come to understand that intenti...

The rate of technological growth is likely to be affected by the way in which the stock of human resources is allocated. This social sorting of individuals over occupations is (partly) a market outcome, affected by the relative return to intellectual ability such as intelligence and other individual merits. To analyze how the social sorting is affected by growth, we present a stylized endogenou...

One of the fastest-rising keywords in the physics literature is “social”. Literally thousands of papers in physics are devoted to modeling social systems, and indeed regular sections of leading journals such as Physica A and Physical Review E are devoted to this topic. The analogy between people and particles has been so consistent that a recent popular review was appropriately titled The Socia...