This paper uses the Management and Employee Questionnaires from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS98) to consider whether the performance of workplaces which offer a range of family-friendly policies are superior to that of workplaces without such practices. It is found that in almost all cases where there is a significant relationship between the use of a family-friendly practi...

This paper uses linked data on over 1,500 workplaces and 20,000 individuals from the 1998 British Workplace Employee Relations Survey to analyze the relationship between labor unions and the availability of six employer-provided family-friendly policies. Unions appear to help with workfamily issues by increasing the availability of parental leave and job sharing options through a combination of...

It has been proposed that the capacity to code the 'like me' analogy between self and others constitutes a basic prerequisite and a starting point for social cognition. It is by means of this self/other equivalence that meaningful social bonds can be established, that we can recognize others as similar to us, and that imitation can take place. In this article I discuss recent neurophysiological...

In this paper we study tools for conviviality to develop user-friendly multiagent systems. First, we show how to use the social-cognitive concept of conviviality in multiagent system technology by relating it to agent power and social dependence networks. Second, we define conviviality masks as transformations of social dependencies by hiding power relations and social structures to facilitate ...

This paper models conflict within a network of friendships and enmities between players. We assume that each player is either in a friendly or in an antagonistic relation with every other player and players compete for a fixed prize by exerting costly efforts. We axiomatically characterize a success function which determines the share of each player given the efforts and the network of relation...

This paper introduces the Event Capture Annotation Tool (ECAT), a user-friendly, open-source interface tool for annotating events and their participants in video, capable of extracting the 3D positions and orientations of objects in video captured by Microsoft’s Kinectr hardware. The modeling language VoxML (Pustejovsky and Krishnaswamy, 2016) underlies ECAT’s object, program, and attribute rep...

We analyze the Sybil proof and privacy properties of SybilGuard [YKGF06]. Sybilguard is a decentralized protocol that operates in a friendship graph type (overlay) network. The protocol prevents an attacker that is limited in its friendship relations from controlling arbitrarily many network nodes. We present a Sybil attack on SybilGuard that exploits the protocol’s network update functionality...

Aemoo is a Web application supporting exploratory search over the Semantic Web. Through a simple keyword-based search interface, users can query Aemoo for information about any entity, which is then collected by aggregating knowledge from diverse sources such as linked data, Wikipedia, Twitter, and Google News. Such aggregation is performed according to cognitively-sound principles through the ...