Main-Supervisor: Henrik Hautop Lund (hhl@mip.sdu.dk)
Co-Supervisor: Yves Demazeau (yves.demazeau@imag.fr)

Abstract: This project deals with the problems related to understanding when and how to interact with whom in a multiagent system in order to exhibit a complex social behaviour. The objective is to understand under which desires, intentions and joint intentions agents act in order to perform complex social behaviours. To achieve this objective intelligent hardware and/or software prototypes, named Playware, will be used as platform. The Playware aims to produce play or playful experiences amongst children or youth, and is thus ideal in exploring several important research questions interrelating behaviours of real systems and multiagent systems.

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Frodi Hammer, Alireza Derakhshan, Yves Demazeau, and Henrik Hautop Lund. A Multi-Agent Approach to Social Human Behaviour in Children’s Play. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT2006), Hong-Kong, China, December 18-22, 2006. (to appear).

Alireza Derakhshan, Frodi Hammer, Henrik Hautop Lund, Yves Demazeau, and Luigi Pagliarini. Adapting Playgrounds using Multi-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of the Ninth Scandinavian Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SCAI2006), pages 151-158, Espoo, Finland, October 25-27, 2006.

Frodi Hammer, Alireza Derakhshan, and Henrik Hautop Lund. Adapting Playgrounds for Children’s Play using Ambient Playware. In Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS’06), pages 5625-5630, Beijing, China, October 9-15, 2006.

Frodi Hammer and Georgios N. Yannakakis. Promoting Children’s Physical Activity using Adaptive Playgrounds. In Proceedings of the 4th European Youth Heart Study Symposium: Children, Physical Activity & Health, Odense, Denmark, April 24-25, 2006.

Alireza Derakhshan, Frodi Hammer, Henrik Hautop Lund, and Yves Demazeau. Mapping Children and Playgrounds into Multi-Agent Systems. In Proceedings of 11th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (ISAROB), Oita, Japan, January 23-25, 2006.

Frodi Hammer and Alireza Derakhshan. Adapting Playgrounds Using Multi-Agent Systems Based Upon Live Agents. Master's thesis, The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute for Production Technology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark, September 1, 2005.