From: rjones@soartech.com   
      
   Nick Malleson wrote:   
   > Hi all,   
   >   
   > I'm a first year PhD student, and I'm interested in creating an   
   > agent-based model of crime (probably burglary). I'd like to create a   
   > model which can predict where offenders will travel to when they commit   
   > a crime. The main aim is to implement realistic human behaviour into   
   > the agents which could lead to hypotheses about how offenders behave in   
   > the real world, what effects the built environment have on their target   
   > choice and how victim behavoiur affects crime.   
   >   
   > Anyway I'm struggling to find any literature which deals with   
   > implementing sophisticated human behaviour into agents, ideally in a   
   > social-science context. I was wondering if anyone knows of any work   
   > that might be useful to me.   
      
   This is an interesting area, but I want to note that building agents   
   that perform such tasks in realistic, "human-like" ways is not   
   necessarily the same thing as building systems that will predict how   
   humans will perform the tasks in particular situations.  Certainly they   
   are related, but the prediction task is much more difficult.   
      
   Anyway, there have been various efforts studying computer models of   
   knowledge-rich behaviors in social settings.  You can find some of this   
   work in the proceedings of the AAMAS conferences.  A conference that is   
   smaller, but more focused on this kind of system is BRIMS (Behavior   
   Representation in Modeling and Simulation), so you might want to look at   
   some of those proceedings, as well.   
      
   And just to engage in a bit of self-promotion, Soar Technology has done   
   quite a bit of work in this and related areas.  You might find some of   
   the publications listed here to be of interest:   
      
   http://www.soartech.com/publications.php   
      
   Randy Jones   
      
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