TY - GEN
T1 - Modeling inferential minds in conceptual space
AU - Barra, Carlos
AU - Canessa, Enrique
AU - Chaigneau, Sergio E.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© ECMS Thorsten Claus, Frank Herrmann, Michael Manitz, Oliver Rose (Editors).
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - We present an Agent Based Model (ABM) named MIMICS (Modeling Inferential Minds in Conceptual Space), which shows how a social group develops abstract concepts for achieving agreement in communication. Agents describe concepts by assigning properties to them based on learning and communication interactions, trying to develop a conceptual space that discriminates as much as possible between two concepts (i.e., they try to assign properties to concepts decreasing the overlap among the properties that describe them). Contrarily to concrete concepts, those properties come from the social group and not from objects' physical properties. The results show that agents in MIMICS develop abstract concepts that exhibit the same characteristics that are found in studies of real concepts: non-uniform frequency distributions of properties, intersubjective variability and stable concepts that are useful for the simulated social group by providing agreement in communication.
AB - We present an Agent Based Model (ABM) named MIMICS (Modeling Inferential Minds in Conceptual Space), which shows how a social group develops abstract concepts for achieving agreement in communication. Agents describe concepts by assigning properties to them based on learning and communication interactions, trying to develop a conceptual space that discriminates as much as possible between two concepts (i.e., they try to assign properties to concepts decreasing the overlap among the properties that describe them). Contrarily to concrete concepts, those properties come from the social group and not from objects' physical properties. The results show that agents in MIMICS develop abstract concepts that exhibit the same characteristics that are found in studies of real concepts: non-uniform frequency distributions of properties, intersubjective variability and stable concepts that are useful for the simulated social group by providing agreement in communication.
KW - Abstract concepts
KW - Agent-based modeling
KW - Conceptual agreement Theory
KW - Evolution of concepts
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84978782692&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.7148/2016-0131
DO - 10.7148/2016-0131
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84978782692
T3 - Proceedings - 30th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2016
SP - 131
EP - 137
BT - Proceedings - 30th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2016
A2 - Claus, Thorsten
A2 - Herrmann, Frank
A2 - Manitz, Michael
A2 - Rose, Oliver
PB - European Council for Modelling and Simulation
T2 - 30th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS 2016
Y2 - 31 May 2016 through 3 June 2016
ER -