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2Marco Schmitt Budapest, September 16 th, 2005
CONTENT
1. SOCIONICS I – The Basic Idea
2. SOCIONICS II – The Projects
3. COMMUNICATION-ORIENTED MODELLING – A Closer Look at one Socionic Project
3Marco Schmitt Budapest, September 16 th, 2005
Socionics – The Basic Idea
„Socionics, an artificial word - like bionic - combining Sociology and Informatics, aims to form a new research discipline with the aim of developing intelligent computer technologies by picking up paradigms of our social world. And vice versa, Socionics uses computer technology in order to verify and to develop sociological models of societies and organizations.“
(Müller/Malsch/Schulz-Schaeffer 1998)
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Socionics – Starting Points
• Social metaphors in DAI and MAS-Research
• Autonomy and Control/Co-ordination/Co-operation
• Social Simulation and Social Theory
• Sociological Theory or Common Sense
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Socionics – Key Issues
• Sociological Reference:More precise sociological theories and concepts
Sociological simulation experiments
• Computational Reference:
New modelling and design approaches Flexibility, robustness, and scalability
• Practical Reference: Implementation of social mechanisms
Tools and Applications
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Socionics - Institutional Setting
• A Focus Research Program sponsored by the German Research Association
• 1999-2005
• Tandem-like Structure of the Projects
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CONTENT
1. SOCIONICS I – The Basic Idea
2. SOCIONICS II – The Projects
3. COMMUNICATION-ORIENTED MODELLING – A Closer Look at one Socionic Project
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Socionics – The Projects
• Integration of Co-operative Agents in Complex Organizations (INKA)
• Emergence in Dynamic Processes (DISPO)
• Modelling Organizational Forms in DAI and Sociology
• Conflict Resolution and Structural Change (ConStruct)
• Simulating Dynamic Social Systems with Complex, Adaptive Agents
• Communication-Oriented Modelling (COM)
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Socionics – The INKA-Project
Application Field (Practical Reference):
• Negotiating Working Shifts in a Hospital Environment
• Introducing a Multi-Agent Negotiation System
Research (Sociological and Computational Reference):
• Practical Roles
• Hybridization
• Interactivity experiments
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Socionics – The DISPO-Project
Application Field:
• Governance Structures in Universities
Research:
• Petri-Nets
• Emergence of Social Structures
• Socially Embedded Decision-Making
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Socionics – Modelling Organizational Forms
Application Field:
• Cooperation between Firms in the Transportation Business
Research:
• Habitus-Field-Theory (Pierre Bourdieu)
• Robustness of Different Organizational Forms
• Markets/Networks/Organizations
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Socionics – The ConStruct-Project
Application Field:
• Coordinating Open Multi-Agent Systems (Internet)
Research:
• Symbolic Interactionism and Theory of Social Systems
• Agent-Based vs. System-Based Views
• Frames
• Social Mirror
• Autonomy and Social Control
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Socionics – Dynamic Social Systems and Complex Adaptive Agents
Application Field:
• Tool for Simulation Experiments
Research:
• Situations of Double Contingency
• Conditions of Stability and Robustness
• Actor Types
• Network Effects
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CONTENT
1. SOCIONICS I – The Basic Idea
2. SOCIONICS II – The Projects
3. COMMUNICATION-ORIENTED MODELLING – A Closer Look at one Socionic Project
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COM – Research Focus and Starting Points
Research Focus
• new sociological theory of
communication
• simulation experiments
• social visibility and selection
strategies
Starting Points
• large-scale communication
processes
• communication paradigm: “To
Whom It May Concern”
• analysis of message
reference networks
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Communication Processes as Message Reference Networks
• Temporality of Communication
• Typed Messages – fixed attributes
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COM/TE – A Tool For Social Simulation
• Computing „social visibility“ of messages in dynamic communication processes using global
- visibility functions and- distribution functions
• Visualization and analysis of process structures
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Communication Styles and Media Forms – A Simulation Experiment
• Research Interest:
Investigating the impact of two different aspects of media forms on communication styles/patterns
• Simulation Design:
1. Generating three different styles/patterns of communication using one visibility function
2. Simulation of media aspects
• Reference-reception ratio
• Message persistence
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Communication Styles I
Modernist Classicist Historicist
Prototypical styles based on scientific citation practices (see Lesk 1997)
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Media Forms – Settings
reference-reception ratioreception duration 3
highRec 268 - 281
lowRec 27 - 28
message persistence
highDeletionAge 500DeletionVis 0.01
archiv-based communication on the Internet
science communication
lowDeletionAge 50DeletionVis 0.39
mass media interaction
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Future Work: COM and COM/TE
• Level of detail:
Fine-grained modelling of the two communicative operations of inception and reception of message signs
• Generalization:
Analysing more general graph structures
• Visualization:
Discovering further styles/patterns of communication
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Play COM/TE!
http://www.kinf.wiai.uni-bamberg.de/COM/
Play around, change parameters and try different visibility functions!
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The Project
Chair for Computing in the Cultural Sciences, Bamberg University
Prof. Dr. Christoph Schlieder
Dr. Klaus Stein
Department of Technology Assessment, Hamburg
University of Technology
Prof. Dr. Thomas Malsch, Steffen Albrecht,
Maren Lübcke, Rasco Perschke