Perspectives on Culture and Agent-based Simulations

1. Integrating Cultures: An Introduction
Frank Dignum, Virginia Dignum

Part I. Analysis and Modelling of Culture

2. Modelling Culture with Complex, Multi-dimensional, Multi-agent Systems
Alexis Morris, William Ross, Hadi Hosseini, Mihaela Ulieru

3. Cross-Validation of Gaming Simulation and Multi-Agent Simulation
Gert Jan Hofstede, Catholijn M. Jonker, Tim Verwaart

4. Modelling Culture Through Social Activities
Rubén Fuentes-Fernández, Jorge J. Gómez-Sanz, Juan Pavón

Part II. Group and Organisation Culture

5. Cultural Integration and Differentiation in Groups and Organizations
Michael Mäs, Andreas Flache, James A. Kitts

6. Modeling and Analysis of Safety Culture of Air Traffic Organizations in the National Culture Context
Alexei Sharpanskykh, Sybert H. Stroeve

7. Monolingual Biases in Simulations of Cultural Transmission
Seán Roberts

Part III. Culture Simulation

8. Towards Agent-Based Models of Cultural Dynamics: A Case of Stereotypes
Jens Pfau, Yoshihisa Kashima, Liz Sonenberg

9. Matching and Mismatching Social Contexts
Bruce Edmonds

10. The Role of Stability in Cultural Evolution: Innovation and Conformity in Implicit Knowledge Discovery
Joanna J. Bryson

Part IV. Culture-Sensitive Technology Design

11. Socially-Oriented Requirements Engineering: Software Engineering Meets Ethnography
Sonja Pedell, Tim Miller, Frank Vetere, Leon Sterling, Steve Howard

12. Cultural Broker Agents: A Framework for Managing Cultural Misunderstandings
O. González, J.-P. Barthés, F. Ramos

13. The Culture Driven Game Design Method: Adapting Serious Games to the Players’ Culture
C. J. Meershoek, R. Kortmann, S. A. Meijer, E. Subrahmanian, A. Verbraeck

Avainsanat: Philosophy, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, Cultural Studies, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Philosophy of Technology