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Participatory Design of Multi-Agent Systems

Tutorial at AAMAS 2007 May 15, 2007.

Abstract

An increasing number of publications in the agent community including at AAMAS, are based on experiments involving human participants and software agents in order to design multi-agent systems and agent-based simulations. In this tutorial, we will explain why and how participation can effectively be used to design multi-agent systems and agent-based simulations. In particular, the presentation will describe the problems that arise with the participatory design of multi-agent systems and how these problems can be solved, based on three different traditions of participatory design of multi-agent systems and agent-based simulations.

Since the goal is not only to introduce the details of this technique to the AAMAS audience but also to allow participants of the tutorial to conduct experiments themselves to test, validate and improve their multi-agent systems, we will conduct a small experiment during the tutorial where attendees will take the role of agents taking part in a collaborative task (please bring a Wifi-enabled laptop) and we will introduce Simulación, an open source framework that was developed to conduct such experiments.

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Program of the Tutorial

May 15th (second day of AAMAS), from 8am to 12pm
Tutorial Structure
- Presentation of the theoretical background (approx. 90 min)
- Organization of a (real) experiment of participatory design (approx. 60 min)
- Presentation of Simulación for supporting designers in organizing new experiments (approx. 60 min)

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