Social animals have to coordinate activities and collective movements to benefit from the advantages of group living. Animals in large groups maintain cohesion by self-organization processes whereas in smaller groups consensus decisions can be reached. Where consensus decisions are relevant leadership may emerge. Variation in the organization of collective movements has been linked to variation...

Moving beyond a unitary actor assumption that models members of a self-evidently collective entity such as a political party “as if” they all shared a single brain, this paper explores the cohesion and discipline of party legislators in multi-party systems operating under the constitutional rules of parliamentary government. We do this in the context of Italian politics, for which a consistent ...

Class cohesion refers to the extent to which the members of a class are related. Several class cohesion metrics are proposed in the literature to indicate class cohesion and a few of them are mathematically validated against the necessary properties of class cohesion. Metrics that violate class cohesion properties are not well defined, and their utility as indictors of the relatedness of class ...

Class cohesion refers to the degree of relatedness of class attributes and methods. Software developers use class cohesion measure to assess the quality of their products and to guide the restructuring of poorly designed classes. Several class cohesion metrics are proposed in the literature, and a few of them are theoretically validated against the class cohesion necessary properties. Metrics t...

Empathy is a form of perception in which individuals access the perspectives others about world order to build knowledge it. It also source self-knowledge because, as con- sequence learning how see us, we can regulate and refine ourselves. is, therefore, an important capacity through social cohesion created. The aim this paper consider role professional empathy between teachers when they engage...

While researchers have examined the role of individuals in crowdsourcing for open innovation purposes (wisdom in crowds) there is a gap in our understanding of the collective intelligence of communities for such purposes (wisdom of crowds). The objective of this exploratory study is therefore to explore the peer production of innovation; specifically the challenges in leveraging the collective ...

Class cohesion or degree of the relations of class members is considered as one of the crucial quality criteria. A class with a high cohesion improves understandability, maintainability and reusability. The class cohesion metrics can be measured quantitatively and therefore can be used as a base for assessing the quality of design. The main objective of this paper is to identify important resea...

Flock Logic was developed as an art and engineering project to explore how the feedback laws used to model flocking translate when applied by dancers. The artistic goal was to create choreographic tools that leverage multi-agent system dynamics with designed feedback and interaction. The engineering goal was to provide insights and design principles for multi-agent systems, such as human crowds...

Class cohesion is an object-oriented software quality attribute and refers to the extent to which the members of a class are related. It is one of the fundamental measures of the goodness of a software design. Software developers use class cohesion measures to assess the quality of their products and to guide the restructuring of poorly developed software. To obtain a more comprehensive and mai...

Cohesion is one of the fundamental measures of the ’goodness’ of a software design. The most accepted and widely studied object-oriented cohesion metric is Chidamber and Kemerer’s Lack of Cohesion in Methods measure. However due to the nature of object-oriented programs, static design metrics fail to quantify all the underlying dimensions of cohesion, as program behaviour is a function of it op...