A Multiagent System to Model Human Action Based on the Concept of Affordance

Afoutni, Zoubida; Courdier, Rémy; Guerrin, F

doi:10.5220/0005141606440651

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“…As we need a neutral and abstract level to detect and reify these artifacts within each farm entity, we designed dedicated entities, called situation controllers which are responsible for the coordination of Actions and Affordances at the farm level. Inspired by Afoutni et al (2014) "place-agents", each farm is associated with a situation controller.…”

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“…In the vein of the Theory of Situated Action (Dreyfus, 1972;Suchman, 1987), several authors have proposed introducing the concept of affordance in ABM to focus on the concrete modalities of the implementation of action in a given situation, i.e. at a given place and time (Cornwell et al, 2003;Sequeira et al, 2007;Papasimeon, 2009;Afoutni et al, 2014). In such situated ABMs, the actor's behavior is determined by a set of possible actions called affordances (Gibson, 1977) and continuously changing according to the current situation, forcing the actor to adapt to it (Gibson, 1977).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A situated agent-based model to reveal irrigators' options behind their actions under institutional arrangements in Southern France

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There has been little exploration of the explicit simulation of the set of options of actors in agent-based models and its evolution over time. This study proposes to use affordances as intermediate entities between agents’ environment and agent actions. We illustrated the approach on a typical gravity-fed network in the South-East of France to explore how the abandonment of traditional sharing of water changes the irrigators’ options to irrigate. We simulated a typical dry year irrigation season under two institutional arrangements (i.e. traditional coordination through daily slots and its abandonment). Simulation results are consistent with field surveys, and reveal an increase in the number of internal conflicts among irrigators as the counterpart of the abandonment of traditional sharing of water. They also highlight the consequences of the heterogeneity of the irrigators' interests within the collective institution. The sensitivity analysis of the model allowed identification of optimal modalities of coordination, and a potential compromise between past and current institutional arrangements. The key benefits of using affordances in ABM lie in the study of their population dynamics for characterizing the interaction situations between actors and their environment and for better understanding the model dynamics.

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confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%