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4. Summary

Socially situated planning provides one mechanism for improving the social
awareness of agents. Obviously this work is in the preliminary stages and many
of the limitation and the relationship to other work could not be addressed in
such a short chapter. The chief limitation, of course, is the strong commitment
to defining social reasoning solely at the meta-level, which restricts the subtlety
of social behavior. Nonetheless, our experience in some real-world military
simulation applications suggest that the approach, even in its preliminary state,
is adequate to model some social interactions, and certainly extends the state-
of-the art found in traditional training simulation systems.

Acknowledgments
This research was funded by the Army Research Institute under contract TAPC-ARI-BR

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