The fields of cognitive science, artificial intelligence, and the social sciences can together create a better understanding of cognition and social processes than they can independently of each other. Some efforts in social sciences, especially social simulations, have evolved an understanding of social processes in societies independently from the other two fields. However Sun (2006) among other has shown that there is relation between individual cognition and social processes. Can this connection be understood by exploring the relationship between computational cognitive modeling and social simulation? How is the cognition of a society different from individual cognition? In this session we will examine
these questions and many more. We invite submissions of research that investigate any of the following topics: (1) the relation between individual and social cognition, (2) multi-agent models that are related to advances in individual cognition, (3) social simulations that utilize cognitive science or artificial intelligence techniques, (4) aspects of social cognition that require modeling, and (5) the integration of cognitive models of learning into multi-agent
interaction.

(Sun, R., 2006) Cognition and Multi-Agent Interaction, Edited by Ron Sun, 2006, Cambridge University Press