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36 Socially Intelligent Agentsany, of the mother a baby may have. There is for example biological evidence oftuning of the babies sensory systems during pregnancy, and immediately afterbirth, to the mother’s odor and voice. Thus, the mother constructs an explicitcoparticipant and the baby acts as if it has a coparticipant.7. SummaryWe argued for and demonstrated an approach to social relationship, appropriatefor agent-agent and user-agent interaction:In a social relationship, agents enter into mutually controlled action regimes,which they maintain voluntarily by mutual perception and by the elaborationof their individual social plans.Acknowledgement: This work was supported by the National Science Foundation, InformationTechnology and Organizations Program managed by Dr. Les Gasser, and is currently supportedby the Cooperation and Social Systems program managed by Dr. Susan Iacono, Research grantIIS-9812714, and by the Caltech Neuromorphic Engineering Research Center, NSF ResearchGrant EEC-9730980.References[1] Alan H. Bond. Commitment: A Computational Model for Organizations of CooperatingIntelligent Agents. In Proceedings of the 1990 Conference on Office Information Systems,pages 21–30. Cambridge, MA, April 1990.[2] Alan H. Bond. Describing Behavioral States using a System Model of the Primate Brain.American Journal of Primatology, 49:315–388, 1999.[3] Alan H. Bond. Problem-solving behavior in a system model of the primate neocortex.Neurocomputing, to appear, 2001.[4] Alan H. Bond and Les Gasser. An Analysis of Problems and Research in Distributed ArtificialIntelligence. In Readings in Distributed Artificial Intelligence, pages 3–35. MorganKaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, CA, 1988.[5] Cindy Hazan and Debra Zeifman. Pair Bonds as Attachments. In Jude Cassidy and PhillipR. Shaver, editor, Handbook of Attachment: Theory, Research and Clinical Applications,pages 336–354. The Guilford Press, New York, 1999.[6] L. C. Miller and S. J. Read. On the coherence of mental models of persons and relationships:a knowledge structure approach. In Cognition in close relationships. Lawrence ErlbaumAssociates, Hillsdale, New Jersey, 1991.