Masculinity and the acceptance of violence: a study of social construction." MA (Master of Arts) thesis, ABSTRACT Men commit the majority of violent crime, yet the majority of men do not commit violent crime. Why is this? Research connecting men and violence cannot fully explain this phenomenon, namely, the variation among men regarding violence. This research study seeks to empirically measure...

This extended abstract discusses various approaches to the constraining of Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (POMDPs) using social norms and logical assertions in a dynamic logic framework. Whereas the exploitation of synergies among formal logic on the one hand and stochastic approaches and machine learning on the other is gaining significantly increasing interest since several ye...

Abstract. For any dynamical system, we show that higher variation-norms for the sequence of ergodic bilinear averages of two functions satisfy a large range of bilinear Lp estimates. It follows that, with probability one, the number of fluctuations along this sequence may grow at most polynomially with respect to (the growth of) the underlying scale. These results strengthen previous works of L...

This paper focuses on the role that social norms play in the selection of equilibrium points seen as social conventions under unforeseen contingencies – that is, their role in the emergence of regularities of behavior which are selfenforcing and effectively adhered to by bounded rational agents due to their self-policing incentives. Differently stated, given a set of game situations imperfectly...

Abstract The paper defends an account of the context-sensitivity norms that draws on resources counterfactual conditionals. combines two assumptions: assumption permission is rule-abiding performance in some contextually relevant situations; and situations are picked out by mechanism selects possible worlds for evaluation explains non-monotonicity permissions solves a puzzle, raised Timothy Wil...

This paper investigates how norm emergence can be facilitated by agents’ adaptive learning behaviors. A general learning framework is proposed, in which agents can dynamically adapt their learning behaviors through social learning of their individual learning experience. Experimental results indicate that the proposed framework outperforms the static learning framework in various comparison cri...

Concrete Contextualization Abstract Norm Net Operationalization Contextual Norm Net Operational Norm Net Figure 2: Contextualization and operationalization Moreover, a contextual norm net can again be further contextualized in a recursive manner, which enables a flexible normative structure and makes it possible for designers at different levels to decide their norm elaborations. Finally, based...

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