The EDA model (Epistemic-Deontic-Axiological) is an agent model based on the social psychology theoretical classification of norms and corresponding attitudes: Ontological, Epistemic, Deontic and Axiological. EDA agents are situated in normative information fields, and are described in terms of the basic attitudes aforementioned. Information fields are used as the basis for coordinating an orga...

Collective phenomena and their associated movement patterns are ubiquitous in everyday life. However, even though we need to be able to reason about these phenomena, especially their movement patterns, research suggests that we do not currently possess the tools for doing so. Research has been carried out into the movement patterns of particular types of collective but there appears to be no re...

Institutional change, collective action, and cooperation are closely related. The connection between institutional change and collective action comes from the fact that both democratic political institutions and norms of behavior are collectively chosen: they are the result of a collective action process. Collective action, however, requires a solution to the cooperation problem, for it is usua...

Collective activity is a collection of atomic activities (individual person's activity) and can hardly be distinguished by an atomic activity in isolation. The interactions among people are important cues for recognizing collective activity. In this paper, we concentrate on modeling the person-person interactions for collective activity recognition. Rather than relying on hand-craft description...

The paper raises a number of issues regarding the ethical character of the Coalition government s Australian Workplace Relations Act. While key principles such as freedom of association and freedom of choice are incorporated into the legislation, it is argued that equity is a higher order ethic. On the face of it, the language of the legislation addresses equity, but notwithstanding the Coaliti...

beneficence as a principle is one of the definite jurisprudential rules and a disclaimer of civil liability of the individual in terms of the loss enforced upon others during acts of collective good. this shall necessitate that beneficence include both subjective and practical good simultaneously. as regards beneficence to an individual other, it is necessary that the act itself be wasteful or ...

According to the tradition, music ensembles are usually lead by a conductor who is the responsible to coordinate and guide the group under a specific musical criteria. Similarly, computer ensembles resort to a conductor to keep the synchronization and structural coordination of the performance, often with the assistance of software. Achieving integration and coherence in a networked performance...

People frequently collaborate to learn and remember information, and this may help groups create a shared representation of the world (i.e., collective memories). However, contrary to intuitions, collaboration also lowers group recall levels. Such impairment occurs regardless of whether people collaborate when first experiencing, or encoding, an event (the collaborative encoding deficit), or wh...

Motivation – This paper presents collective processes analysis in command and control activities. Research approach – Our objective is to describe the collective activities during alert management situations using the EORCA method (Event Oriented Representation of Collaborative Activities). Findings/Design –Data analysis allows us to characterize different inter-individual processes: co-operati...

A quantum channel is a completely positive trace preserving map which acts on the set of operators for the Hilbert space associated with a given quantum system. Analysis of such channels is central to quantum computing and quantum information theory. We present and investigate a new class of quantum channels that includes the class of collective rotation channels as a special case. We use the p...