Emotion modeling has been an active area of research for almost two decades now. In spite of
the growing and diverse body of work in emotion modeling designing and developing emotion
models remains an art with few standards and systematic guidelines available to guide the
design process and to validate the resulting models. This state-of-the-art volume includes
extended versions of eight papers presented at two workshops: Standards in Emotion Modeling
SEM 2011 held in Leiden The Netherlands in August 2011 which focused on the challenges
progress and open questions regarding emotion modeling standards and Emotional and Empathic
Agents EEA 2012 held in conjunction with AAMAS 2012 in Valencia Spain in June 2012 which
focused on strategies for reducing the complexity of affective models and model re-use. The
papers have been organized into two sections: generic models and frameworks and evaluations of
specific models. They represent a sampling of the current efforts toward the development of
more systematic methods for emotion modeling toward the development of standards in emotion
model design and validation and toward more pragmatic approaches to model development
including model component sharing and re-use. The topics range from efforts to define minimum
functionalities for agent emotion models and provide tools for systematic comparisons of
alternative approaches through approaches to integrating multiple processing levels within an
agent architecture to papers exploring the best means of generating empathy and supportive
behavior in virtual agents and attempts to address the requirements for realistic modeling of
affective expressions across multiple types of social interaction (individual group and
cultural).
