since land reform in iran, rural studies and rural sociology have been concentrated on rural society as economical and political phenomena; therefore mostly traditional systems of production and power were noted in researches. one issue that was not addressed in this academic discourse was rural religion. religion as a core of culture and the main context to reproduce social integration has a k...

Complex group behavior arises in social insects colonies as the integration of the actions of simple and redundant individual insects Adler and Gordon, 1992, Oster and Wilson, 1978]. Furthermore, the colony can act as an information center to expedite foraging Brown, 1989]. We apply these lessons from natural systems to model collective action and memory in a computational agent society. Collec...

The paper presents a software agents society, which implements a more efficient control and monitoring system for a complex heterogeneous system – multiple hydroelectric power plants connected in a chain on Somes River. The agent society can be superimposed over the existing SCADA control and monitoring network and aims to increase performance, efficiency and stability in the existing monitorin...

A normative system is defined as any set of interacting agents whose behavior can usefully be regarded as norm-directed [9]. Most organizations, and more specifically institutions, fall under this definition. Interactions in these normative systems are regulated by normative templates that describe desired behavior in terms of deontic concepts (obligations, prohibitions and permissions), deadli...

family is one of the most important kernels of society that was noteworthy in all ages and marriage as the most essential step in the formation of this kernel has a special place among all generations. finding a partner who causes feeling fortune and happiness is most highlighted human's dream that man try to fulfill. the need for peace and prosperity in folk literature has a wide appearan...

The field of multi-agent systems shifts attention from one particular agent to a society of agents; hence the interactions between agents in the society become critical towards the achievement of their goals. We assume that the interactions are managed via an agent protocol which enables agents to coordinate their actions in order to handle the dependencies that exist between their activities. ...

Embedding Machine Learning technology into Agent Driven Diagnosis Systems adds a new potential to the realm of Medicine, and in particular to the imagiology one. However, despite all the research done in the last years on the development of methodologies for designing MultiAgent Systems (MAS), there is no methodology suitable for the specification and design of MAS in complex domains where both...

Agent technology is a software paradigm that permits to implement large and complex distributed applications. In order to assist the development ofmulti-agent systems, agent-orientedmethodologies (AOM) have been created in the last years to support modelling more and more complex applications. Even though agents are perceived as autonomous entities that act according to some objectives, they ar...

This paper investigates the effectiveness of creative versus uncreative leadership using EVOC, an agent-based model of cultural evolution. Each iteration, each agent in the artificial society invents a new action, or imitates a neighbor’s action. Only the leader’s actions can be imitated by all other agents, referred to as followers. Two measures of creativity were used: (1) invention-to-imitat...