Publications & Theses


Publications

2009

Perceptions of Efficacy, Control, and Risk: A Theory of Mixed Control. (with Erik Monsen)
In: A. Carsrud, M. Brannback (eds.) The Entrepreneurial Mind. New York: Springer, 2009. (SSRN)
- also available as Jena Economic Research Papers, vol. 3, no. 2009-018, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, Max-Planck-Institute of Economics, 2008. (repec)

2008

Opinion dynamics: The effect of number of peers met at once. (with Jan Lorenz and Heiko Herzberg)
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation. vol. 11, no 2, 2008, <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/2/4/4.html>. (repec)
- preliminary version published as: Communication regimes in opinion dynamics: Changing the number of communicating agents. (with J. Lorenz) In: Proceedings of Second Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA '04), September 16-19, Valladolid, Spain, 2004, (arXiv)

2007

About the Power to Enforce and Prevent Consensus by Manipulating Communication Rules. (with Jan Lorenz)
Advances in Complex Systems, vol. 10, no. 2, 2007, 251-269. (preprint)
- preliminary version presented at Annual Meeting of the Section for Physics of Socio-economic Systems in the German Physical Society, Dresden, Germany, 2006. (arXiv)

Construction and evaluation of sociologically inspired agents in hybrid settings. Approach and experimental results of the INKA project. (with M. Meister, K. Schröter, E. Lettkemann, H.-D. Burkhard, and W. Rammert)
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 10, no. 1, 2007, <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/10/1/4.html>. (repec)

2005

Dynamics of structured attitudes and opinions. (with Robin Malitz)
In: Troitzsch, K.G. (ed.): Representing Social Reality, 2005, pp. 206-212 (pdf)

Social Formation of Negotiation Space and Groups for Non-Isolated Multilateral Negotiations. (with K. Schröter and N. Hans)
Fundamenta Informaticae, vol 67, no. 1-3, IOS Press, 2005, pp. 187-201.
- preliminary version published as: Social formation of negotiation space and group for non-isolated multilateral negotiations. Proceedings of the Concurrency, Specification & Programming (CS&P '04) Workshop, Caputh, Germany, September, 2004.

Weight-based negotiation mechanisms: Balancing personal utilities.
Fundamenta Informaticae, vol 67, no.1-3, IOS Press, 2005, pp. 271-285. (pdf)
- preliminary version published as: Negotiating by balancing personal utilities. Proceedings of the Concurrency, Specification & Programming (CS&P '04) Workshop, Capth, Germany, September, 2004
- parts also published as: A general negotiation scenario and a multilateral negotiation mechanism with directed concessions (with D. Monett Díaz) In: In L. Czaja, editor, Proceedings of the Concurrency, Specification & Programming (CS&P '03) Workshop, Czarna, Poland 25-27 Sept., volume 2, pages 524-538, 2003.

Negotiating Agents: From Full Autonomy to Degrees of Delegation. (with K. Schröter) Proceedings of the 4th International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS '05), Utrecht, July 25-29, ACM, 2005, pp. 1167-1168. (pdf)
- extended version also published as: From Full Autonomy to Manual Control. Specifying Negotiating Agents. (with K. Schröter). In: Proceedings of the Workshop Concurrency, Specification & Programming (CS&P '05), Ruciae-Nida, Poland, September, 2005, pp. 520-531. (pdf)

Agents Enacting Social Roles. Balancing Formal Structure and Practical Rationality in MAS Design. (with M. Meister, K. Schröter, and R. Gerstl)
In: K. Fischer / M. Florian / T. Malsch (Eds.): Socionics: Scalability of Complex Social Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 3413, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 2005, 104-131. (pdf)
- previous version published as: Agents Enacting Social Roles. Balancing Formal Structure and Practical Rationality in MAS Design. Technical University - Technology Studies Working Papers, TUTS-WP-6-2003, Technische Universität Berlin, Institut für Soziologie, 2003.

2004

C-IPS: Specifying Decision Interdependencies in Negotiations. (with K. Schröter),
Multiagent System Technologies, Second German Conference, (MATES '04), Erfurt, Germany, September 29-30, 2004, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3187, Springer, 2004. (pdf)

C-IPS Approach to Negotiating Agents: Specifying dynamic interdependencies between issue, partner, and step. (with K. Schröter)
Proceedings of the 3rd International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS '04), New York, July 19-23, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 1284-1285. (pdf)

2003

Attitude Dynamics With Limited Verbalisation Capabilities.
Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, vol. 6 no. 1, 2003. <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/6/1/2.html> (updated pdf)

The C-IPS Agent Architecture for Modeling Negotiating Social Agents. (with D. Monett Diaz and K. Schröter)
Multiagent System Technologies, First German Conference, (MATES '03), Erfurt, Germany, September 2003, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 2831, pp. 217-228, Springer, 2003. (pdf)

The value chain's values: Interpretations and Implications for industry and firm analysis.
In: Proceedings of Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR'03), Shaker Verlag, 2003. (pdf)

Introducing the IPS framework to model altruistic relation-building agents in negotiations. (with K. Schröter and D. Monett Díaz)
Proceedings of the KI-2003 Workshop on Modelling Artificial Societies and Hybrid Organizations (MASHO '03), University of Hamburg, 2003, pp. 40-50.
- also published In R. von Lüde, D. Moldt, and R. Valk (Hrsg.): Sozionik Aktuell. Ein internationales Journal zur Sozionik, 2003, pp. 35-45


Theses

Agentenarchitektur zur Simulation von auf Informationsdiffusion beruhenden Dynamiken mehrerer interdependenter Einstellungen (English translation: Agent architecture for simulating attitude formation processes based on information diffusion), unpublished diploma thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Computer Science, 2003. (pdf)

Unternehmens- und Branchenanalyse aus Sicht der Wertkette und des Stakeholderansatzes am Beispiel der Suchmaschinenbranche (English translation: Firm and industry analysis for the world wide web search engine industry using the value chain and stakeholder approach), unpublished diploma thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, School of Business and Economics, 2001