Title :
Small qualitative talking with members of Economic Softbot Population
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Rector, Univ. of Econ., Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract :
With progressing in ICT and achieved advances in applied informatics and computational intelligence there arising several new opportunities for deeper dialogue with mental models and theories in class of social sciences and mainly in the branch of economic sciences. The actual manner in economics is relating with creation of virtual laboratories positioned by built-in formalized mental models and realisation of simulation experimentation with such creations. For those virtual devices the author are using only in working form the name “Economic Softbot Population”, in short EconSoP. Such single equipments in appropriate software he is again similarly calling by working term “CI economics creatures” or shortly “economics softbots”. The dialogue with such softbots he is calling by term (mutual and/or two-way) storytelling, that is telling story by the active assistance of softbots not only in the form of conventional (dominantly verbal) stories but with parallel running experiments too. The goal of this paper is mentions on population habituated by various simple economic softbots and realisation of several small stories by assistance of appropriate (ready-to-use) software as practically examined in education and/or for other purposes. The topic of the paper is belonging to the class of emergent research/education/learning technologies. Their innovative power is in dominance of constructive upon instructive approaches and basing on holistic qualitative perceiving of the various complexities.
Keywords :
socio-economic effects; software agents; CI economic creatures; EconSoP; built-in formalized mental models; computational intelligence; economic sciences; economic softbot population; education technology; learning technology; mutual storytelling; research technology; simulation experimentation; social sciences; two-way storytelling; virtual devices; virtual laboratories; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Economics; Education; Manganese; Tunneling;
Conference_Titel :
Computational Intelligence and Informatics (CINTI), 2011 IEEE 12th International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Budapest
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0044-6
DOI :
10.1109/CINTI.2011.6108538