One thing which fascinates me as a trained physicist is that many abstract social concepts become concrete, observable and measurable phenomena in Multi-Agent Systems. On our Wiki, I have tried to collect definitions for the basic agent interaction patterns and fundamental types of social relationships in terms of agents, mostly based on Weber's definitions. http://www.vs.uni-kassel.de/systems/index.php/Agent_interaction_pattern
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