Although best known for cooperation, insect societies also manifest many potential conflicts among individuals. These conflicts involve both direct reproduction by individuals and manipulation of the reproduction of colony members. Here we review five major areas of reproductive conflict in insect societies: (a) sex allocation, (b) queen rearing, (c) male rearing, (d) queen-worker caste fate, a...

Gabriele Oettingen and Peter M. Gollwitzer      ...

This paper is presenting a way of integrating conflicting temporal information from multiple information providers. It is shown that uncertain information can arise when the provider integration process through a global query mechanism, requires information not directly presented in the community of information providers. This occurs for two reasons mainly: I) Query selection predicates are dir...

The growing use of telematic ways of communication and of the new developments of Artificial Intelligence, brought along new ways of doing business, now in an electronic format, and requiring a new legal approach. Thus, there is an obvious need for legal changes and adaptations, not only concerning a new approach of traditional legal institutes, but also concerning a need for new developments i...

The Ministry of Lands, Agriculture, Water, Climate, and Rural Resettlement issued statutory instrument (S.I) 50 2021, announcing the 12940 hectares Chilonga land is commercialized for national food security. 2021 also stated that villagers immediately pave way lucerne grass irrigation project. problem with this research Land has power to relocate people in all communal lands according constitut...

While several interesting argumentation-based semantics for defeasible logic programs have been proposed, to our best knowledge, none of these approaches is able to fully handle the closure under strict rules in a sufficient manner: they are either not closed, or they use workarounds such as transposition of rules which violates desired directionality of logic programming rules. We propose a no...