Enlivening Cultural Environments through Sharing and Gotong Royong (Mutual Cooperation)

Emergence of Cooperation Through Mutual Preference Revision

This paper proposes a method allowing an agent to perform in a socially fair way by considering other agents’ preferences. Such a balanced action selection process is based on declarative diagnosis, which enables the removal of contradictions arising as all agents’ preferences are confronted within the deciding agent. Agents can be negatively affected when some of their preferences are not resp...

Mutual Dependence Demands Mutual Sharing

Peer pressure: enhancement of cooperation through mutual punishment.

An open problem in evolutionary game dynamics is to understand the effect of peer pressure on cooperation in a quantitative manner. Peer pressure can be modeled by punishment, which has been proved to be an effective mechanism to sustain cooperation among selfish individuals. We investigate a symmetric punishment strategy, in which an individual will punish each neighbor if their strategies are...

Enhancing Wrapper Usability through Ontology Sharing and Large Scale Cooperation

The htmlButler project aims at enhancing the usability of visual wrapper technology while preserving versatility. htmlButler will allow, for an untrained user who has only the most basic web knowledge, to visually specify simple but useful wrappers and, for a more tech-savvy user, to visually or otherwise specify more complex wrappers. htmlButler was started 2005/2 and is based on visual wrappi...

Mutual Acceptance by Sharing Information through Indirect Biofeedback

This paper proposes a model of mutual acceptance between a patient, his/her family members, and medical staff by sharing information through indirect biofeedback. In Japan, an upcoming socalled super-aging society, it has become a serious problem how to achieve effective and high-quality care support for aged persons. Here we focus on a psychological aspect of this problem and suggest a possibl...