3 papers
cs.MA2020
Modelling Human Routines: Conceptualising Social Practice Theory for Agent-Based Simulation
Rijk Mercuur, Virginia Dignum, Catholijn M. Jonker
Our routines play an important role in a wide range of social challenges such as climate change, disease outbreaks and coordinating staff and patients in a hospital. To use agent-b…
cs.MA2018
Towards Agent-based Models of Rumours in Organizations: A Social Practice Theory Approach
Amir Ebrahimi Fard, Rijk Mercuur, Virginia Dignum +2
Rumour is a collective emergent phenomenon with a potential for provoking a crisis. Modelling approaches have been deployed since five decades ago; however, the focus was mostly on…
cs.MA2018
Modelling Agents Endowed with Social Practices: Static Aspects
Rijk Mercuur, Virginia Dignum, Catholijn M. Jonker
To understand societal phenomena through simulation, we need computational variants of socio-cognitive theories. Social Practice Theory has provided a unique understanding of socia…