There is a growing belief that the agents' cognitive structures play a central role on the enhancement of predicative capacities of decision-making strategies. This paper analyses and simulates the construction of cognitive social structures in the process of decision making with multiple actors. In this process it is argued that the agent's rational choices may be assessed by its motivations, ...

extract   if you are young, old or in midlife your new ages activities have different meaning to past times.   same as the other societies in our society, age is one of the essential dimensions of organizations and social associations. for example our school system is based on the students' ages. student behavior is different of their adult teachers based on the ages. more or less families...

Each society has a social health definition based on its characteristics. One of the important and influential factors on social health is the level of social consensus in society. This research was conducted to investigate the effect of social consensus on social health. The statistical population of the study is all citizens living in Tehran. The sampling method was multi-stage cluster sampli...

security is fundamental right and prerequisite of upgrade welfare and health of the people. sense of security is the key issues in any society and necessary introduction for the political and social military life. sense of security was related citizens' mental sense of security and hence it accompanies many queries and issues around self about secure or insecure of it. women's are vulnerable gr...

Community detection is a task of fundamental importance in social network analysis. Community structures enable us to discover the hidden interactions among the network entities and summarize the network information that can be applied in many applied domains such as bioinformatics, finance, e-commerce and forensic science. There exist a variety of methods for community detection based on diffe...

With the growth of the use of social media, information is exchanged faster than ever. Understanding this diffusion of information is critical to planning for time sensitive events and situations. However, most traditional models of diffusion do not work well in situations where outside events are occurring at almost the same rate as diffusion dynamics within the network. In this paper, we pres...

A great quantity of information is required to support urban planning. Usually there are many (not integrated) data sources, originating from different government bodies, in distinct formats and variable properties (e.g. reliability, completeness). The effort to handle these data, integrate and analyze them is high, taking to much time for the information to be available to help decision making...

We briefly introduce the 4 th international workshop on location-based social networks (LBSN 2012), describing its objective, importance, and results.

We study on how to maintain long-term influence in a social network by proposing an agent-based influence maintenance model. Within the context of our investigation, the experimental results reveal that multiple-time seed selection is capable of achieving more constant impact than one-shot selection.