Creation of Creative Work Teams using Multi-Agent based Social Simulation

Adrián Bresó, Alfonso Pérez, Javier Juan-Albarracín, Juan Martínez-Miranda, Montserrat Robles, Juan Miguel García-Gómez

2013

Abstract

Over the past decades, advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques have investigated the modelling of complex systems. In particular, the use of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) opened new possibilities for studying different domains using social simulation. In the present work we have implemented and empirically evaluated a Multi-Agent Based Social Simulation (MABSS) system to support the formation of creative work teams. Based on existent psychological and organizational creativity studies, we have modelled a set of personal characteristics and contextual factors to represent and analyse their influence on creativity at both: the individual and the group level. The obtained initial results were significantly better than the results obtained with a pure stochastic model (average improvement of 8.2%). Additionally, we empirically confirm some hypothesis about group formation from the organizational studies

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Bresó A., Pérez A., Juan-Albarracín J., Martínez-Miranda J., Robles M. and García-Gómez J. (2013). Creation of Creative Work Teams using Multi-Agent based Social Simulation . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8565-38-9, pages 211-218. DOI: 10.5220/0004240302110218


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@conference{icaart13,
author={Adrián Bresó and Alfonso Pérez and Javier Juan-Albarracín and Juan Martínez-Miranda and Montserrat Robles and Juan Miguel García-Gómez},
title={Creation of Creative Work Teams using Multi-Agent based Social Simulation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2013},
pages={211-218},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004240302110218},
isbn={978-989-8565-38-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Creation of Creative Work Teams using Multi-Agent based Social Simulation
SN - 978-989-8565-38-9
AU - Bresó A.
AU - Pérez A.
AU - Juan-Albarracín J.
AU - Martínez-Miranda J.
AU - Robles M.
AU - García-Gómez J.
PY - 2013
SP - 211
EP - 218
DO - 10.5220/0004240302110218