When Change Agents Manage Change

When Etiquette Really Matters: Relational Agents and Behavior Change

Etiquette is about adhering to prescribed norms in social interactions, or about negotiating and making explicit interactional norms when they do not already exist. While these play a role in most realms of human interaction, the establishment of such norms has been demonstrated to be especially crucial in domains in which a person is attempting to undergo a change in behavior or cognitive or a...

Does regulation drive , manage or monitor change ?

Regulatory frameworks for the use of animals for experimental and other scientific purposes ideally should provide a sufficiently flexible approach to anticipate, promote and make provision for technical progress in science and welfare; and inform and reflect the evolution of informed societal and political thinking. The focus needs to be on what must be achieved and why, and less on how it is ...

When Women Lead Change Happens

Internal Change Agents’ View of the Management of Change Problem

The vital importance of change management in today’s competitive climate has been widely investigated. While the need for successful change management is intensively proclaimed by ‘expert’ consultants, the response for some time has been regarded as falling short of what is required. The heavy emphasis in the literature on a rational-linear approach to understanding organisational change overlo...

Belief Change in Reasoning Agents

The capability of changing beliefs upon new information in a rational and efficient way is crucial for an intelligent agent. Belief change therefore is one of the central research fields in Artificial Intelligence (AI) for over two decades. In the AI literature, two different kinds of belief change operations have been intensively investigated: belief update, which deal with situations where th...