This work proposes a method for integrating cooperative behaviors among distributed autonomous agents based on local communications. The presented architecture is reactive-based to ensure self-organization, reactivity and adaptability of the agents. Animal signal spreading have interesting characteristics such as spatial limited communication, intensity meaning, redundant information (robustnes...

This paper highlights the benefits of using cooperation as the engine of adaptation and robustness for multiagent systems. Our work is based on the AMAS (Adaptive Multi-Agent System) approach which considers cooperation as a self-organization mechanism to obtain adequate emergent global behaviors for systems coupled with complex and dynamic environments. A multi-robot resource transportation ta...

This paper proposes a measure to quantify the value of cooperation experienced by a firm. Using a ”reverse” merger simulation approach, the percentage of a firm’s profits due to cooperation can be precisely determined. This is accomplished by considering the profit maximizing dynamics of firms in the market as defining a value function of a coalition game. A simple example illustrates the ideas.

Organizations are composed of individuals. However, organizational behavior is not simply a sum of the behaviors of the individuals comprising them. Organizations alter individual behavior by constraining who interacts with whom, as well as constraining the subjects motivating their interactions [March & Simon, 1958], what resources are available [Pfeffer & Salancik, 1978], providing new motiva...

among others internal, regional, international, political, economic, technical, social and cultural factors are reasons that theorists introduce for beginning of integration at a region. by looking at the functions of the shanghai cooperation organization and the association of southeast asian nations (asean), we understand that there are two basic pragmatic factors, the support of the great po...

Iran’s security is affected by a broad region that includes the Caspian Basin, Central Asia, Afghanistan, the Persian Gulf states, Pakistan, Turkey, and the Middle East. However, an increased focus on the countries of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), as well as Iraq, on the one hand, and with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) (including Yemen) on the other, provides a na...

From the perspective of cognitive informatics (CI), this paper proposes internal relations between distance and orientation knowledge of extended objects, and presents a formal representation of spatial knowledge. The connection relation is taken as primitive. Notions of near extension regions and the nearer predicate are developed. Distance relations between extended objects are understood as ...

The introduction of groupware into organizations impacts the existing patterns of cooperation. Applying the theory of self-organizing social systems, we try to gain insights into these introduction processes. We look at Maturana’s theory of autopoietic systems and show how Luhmann has drawn on it for the analysis of social systems. In the following, we present case studies of evolving cooperati...

Heterotypic cooperation-two populations exchanging distinct benefits that are costly to produce-is widespread. Cheaters, exploiting benefits while evading contribution, can undermine cooperation. Two mechanisms can stabilize heterotypic cooperation. In 'partner choice', cooperators recognize and choose cooperating over cheating partners; in 'partner fidelity feedback', fitness-feedback from rep...