Guye-Vuilleme, A.Thalmann, D.2007-01-162007-01-162007-01-16200010.1007/BF01424340https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/239132The creation or virtual humans capable of behaving and interacting realistically with each other requires the development of autonomous believable social agents. Standard goal-oriented approaches are not well suited to it because they don't take into account important characteristics identified by the social sciences. The paper tackles the issue of a general social reasoning mechanism, discussing its basic functional requirements using a sociological perspective, and proposing a high-level architecture based on roles, norms, values and typesinference mechanismssoftware agentsvirtual realitytext::journal::journal article::research article