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In this paper, a new model of agent is presented with the capacity to represent itself as a distinct individual with identity, a mind of its own, unique experiences, and social lives. In this way, the agent can interact with its surroundings and other agents seamlessly and meaningfully. A practical framework for developing an agent architecture with this model of self and self-awareness is proposed allowing self to be ascribed to an existing intelligent agent architecture in general to enable its social ability, interactivity, and co-presence with others. Possible applications are discussed with some exemplifying cases based on an implementation of a conversational agent.","doi":"10.24963/ijcai.2020/606","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/606","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/0606.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/606.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/bibtex/606","volume":{"slug":"2020","title":"Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 2020","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2020/","year":2020,"location":"Yokohama","dates":"January 2021 (postponed from 11-17 July 2020)","editors":"Christian Bessiere","isbn":"978-0-9992411-6-5","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence Organization","doi_prefix":"10.24963/ijcai.2020"},"section":"Special track on AI for CompSust and Human well-being","track":"Special track on AI for CompSust and Human well-being","number":606,"pages":{"first":4396,"last":4402},"keywords":["Humans and AI: Cognitive Modeling","Humans and AI: Personalization and User Modeling","Humans and AI: Human-AI Collaboration","Agent-based and Multi-agent Systems: Human-Agent Interaction"],"videos":[{"label":"Video","url":"https://videos.ijcai20.org/25337/file_25337.m3u8","length_sec":287,"provider":"hls"}],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"[Ali et al., 2018] Afia Ali, Emma Brown, Aimee Spector, Elisa Aguirre, and Angela Hassiotis. 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