We are a highly interdisciplinary research group working at the intersection among cognitive, social and computational sciences. LABSS is based at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and aims to foster an explorative approach to Agent Based Modeling and Simulation.

The workshop aims to develop a shared framework for understanding norm compliance: the process enabling an external request or command to be obeyed.
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Il 14 giugno presso la sede dell’ISTC CNR (via San Martino della Battaglia 44 – Roma), il LABSS organizza una giornata di studio interdisciplinare sugli aspetti cognitivi, computazionali e sociali del gossip.
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The paper “A cognitive model of punishment” by Francesca Giardini, Giulia Andrighetto and Rosaria Conte has been accepted at CogSci 2010:
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We’re glad to have placed a paper in a new field for the LABSS: at the 6th Workshop on AGENTS IN TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORTATION
Mario Paolucci and Hiromitsu Hattori. Traffic Simulations with Emotional Effects: A Proposal for Core Affect Contagion
The paper is available at SSRN in pre-reviewed form.
The LABSS, along with the Italian Society of Cognitive Science, promotes the second summer school on agent based simulation. The school will take place in Rome on June 21-25 2010. Further information on the EduLabss website
LABSS is proud to sponsor the first workshop on Social Complexity of Informal Value Exchange
SCIVE 2010 – http://cfpm.org/scive/
Exploring the social aspects of informal value transfer at the European Complex Systems Society Conference, Lisbon, September 15th or 16th, 2010
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The LABSS troupe is happy to announce the publication of the eRep booklet!

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COGNITIVE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, 2008 SUMMER INSTITUTE Montreal, Canada – June 27th – July 6th 2008
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ISTC future days. 16th-17th of June 2008 (in Italian). Slides: PPT
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