The overall behavior of multiagent systems can be controlled by designing agent organizations and allowable interactions between autonomous and goal directed agents such as 3APL agents. The rules of behavior for individual agents are described using concepts from organization theories such as roles and norms. In this paper, a framework for agent organization is discussed and its related concept...

organizations, in both public and private sectors, are designed to meet different goals and objectives. undoubtedly, productivity is one of the most significant objectives toward which administrators should plan and set goals. because an unproductive organization is unable to function properly and survive in the long term. reviewing literature on productivity concept reveals that there are diff...

BACKGROUND Shared decision making is an important component of patient-centred care and decision aids are tools designed to support patients' decision making and help patients with depression to make informed choices. OBJECTIVE The study aim was to assess the effectiveness of a web-based decision aid for patients with unipolar depression. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING AND PA...

psychological criticism is considered as a new field in literary criticism, that critic, review and analyzes the literary work therein based on principles of psychology. the present study, address to the personality psychology criticism of mutanabbi poetry as battle, conflict, and tension within three levels of personality: id, ego and superego. the objectives of this paper include: 1-avoid fro...

background : work-family conflict has many negative outcomes for organization and career and family life of each person. the aim of present study was to determine the relationship between work-family conflict and the level of self-efficacy in female nurses. methods : in this cross-sectional descriptive research, the relationship between work-family conflict and the level of self-efficacy in fem...

this paper aims at studying the effects of work/family conflict and family/ work conflict as a result of work alienation. some theories of goffman, duxbury and higgins, kirchmeyer and cohen, merton, inglehart and faunce are applied in the study. the research is conducted through a survey method. stratified random sampling has been used for selection of the samples. main data collection method f...