Traditionally, universities focus primarily on instructionist teaching. Such an understanding has been criticized from theoretical and practical points of view. We believe that socio-cultural theories of learning and the concepts of social capital and social creativity hold considerable promise as a theoretical base for the repositioning of universities in the knowledge society. To illustrate o...

Knowledge Societies also named Social Learning Networks (SLN) allow interaction and collaboration between individuals (instructors and students), who share their connections under a scheme of learning communities around common learning interest. In this paper, we present Zamná, a Knowledge Society implemented as an adaptive learning social network. A community of Instructors and Learners can cr...

In 1985, a survey found that only about one-third of physicians and oncology nurses would have consented to chemotherapy for non-small-cell lung cancer. In response to statements made at a recent American Society of Oncology (ASCO) Board of Directors meeting questioning whether these data are still valid, Dr. Smith and colleagues conducted a new survey of oncologists attending a 1997 National C...

We consider the effect communications by mobile phone have on the process of building relations of individuals, and discuss the impact such communications have on interpersonal relationships among individuals in a network society. Our research results indicate that a network society is significantly affected when mobile communication becomes widespread within that society. In the field of manag...

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This paper introduces a modeling paradigm based on a language theoretic framework for stochastic simulation of decision-making in a social setting, where choices and decisions by individuals are increasingly being influenced by a person’s online social interactions. In this paper, the dynamics of opinion formation in a networked society have been studied with a joint model that bridges micro-le...

WHAT: 9:00-9:15am Arrival & welcome 9:15-10:00 Talk 1 (Steve Palmer) 10:00-10:15 Morning break 10:15-11:45 Session I (Eidels, Viemeister, Ruggles, Schloss, Sarris, Biederman) 11:45-12:30 Lunch break 12:30-1:15 Talk 2 (Jim Townsend) 1:15-2:45 Session II (Peterson, Overliet, Orsten, Little, Kellman, Herzog) 2:45-3:00 Afternoon break 3:00-4:45 Session III (Goldstone, Garrigan, Kimchi, Jiang, Franc...

technology has had many influences on the iranian society in different eras. today, information and telecommunication technologies have revolutionized the basic structures of society and a new network society has been propagated inside the traditional and semi-modern context. in countries like iran, which are in the process of modernization, a chaos deriving from the transition period is observ...

Since privacy information can be inferred via social relations, the privacy confidentiality problem becomes increasingly challenging as online social network services are more popular. Using a Bayesian network approach to model the causal relations among people in social networks, we study the impact of prior probability, influence strength, and society openness to the inference accuracy on a r...