Implicit Culture and Psychocultural Distance

Psychocultural Mechanisms of the Propensity toward Criminal Homicide: A Multidimensional View of the Culture of Honor

Introduction: Theory of the Culture of Honor is one of the few models in criminology specifically geared toward homicide. It proposes that, in certain societies, men must never show weakness and are required to react violently to any perceived threats to their reputation, thereby increasing their probability of committing a homicide. This has been suggested as the main explanation for the high ...

Implicit Culture and Multi-agent Systems

|Agents' autonomy and incoming agents can prevent a multi-agent system from fulllling its requirements. Given a group of autonomous agents acting in an environment it should be useful to exploit information about their actions in order to improve the single agent's knowledge and behavior, and guarantee the realization of the requirements. In this paper, we introduce the concept of implicit cult...

Generalized Distance Metrics in Implicit Surface Modelling

Implicit surfaces are often designed through the definition and addition of offset surfaces. These are typically defined using a skeleton of primitives such as points and lines. A predefined offset from the skeleton determines the surface. Implied in this commonly used technique is the computation of the distance from the skeleton. It is natural to use the Euclidean definition of distance. In t...

Alternate Distance Metrics for Implicit Surface Modeling

The shapes easily modeled with commonly used implicit surfaces have tended to be curved (giving rise to the nick name blobs). The shapes most easily modeled with CSG tend to be angular. Complex models that required combinations of these two types of shapes can be achieved by combining the two approaches to modeling through a process such as the BlobTree [4]. However, blending between the di ere...

Implicit Culture for Multi-agent Interaction Support