A key problem for models of dialogue is to explain how conventions are established and sustained. Existing accounts emphasize the importance of interaction, demonstrating how collaborative feedback leads to more systematized, stable and arbitrary referential conventions. However, co-ordination in dialogue requires both co-ordination of content and of process. To investigate procedural co-ordina...

We study an evolutionary model where agents are locally matched to play a symmetric coordination game. Opportunities to adjust strategy and location arrive asynchronously and infrequently, and cannot be coordinated. Our results on the short-run co-existence of different conventions and long-run efficiency depend upon a condition on off-equilibrium payoffs introduced by Aumann. In a pure coordin...

We report the results of a coordination game experiment. The experiment carefully distinguishes between conventions based on labels and conventions based on populations. Our labels treatments investigate the abstraction assumptions that underlie the concept of a strategy, while our population treatments investigate the attraction of alternative mutually consistent ways to play under adaptive be...

In this paper we explore the question of whether collaborative virtual environments can be regarded as social systems. One criteria of social systems is the presence of social conventions which serve as a basis for common communication. We conducted empirical research in three different on-line environments in order to identify explicit and implicit social conventions. We found evidence that a ...

Over its almost ninety years of existence, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has adopted 188 conventions that defi ne international labour standards in a wide variety of areas, such as limits on working time, occupational heath and safety standards, employment policy, and basic working conditions for specifi c categories of workers. For ILO conventions to have legal status and be enfo...

Le Botswana compte 19 conventions fiscales en vigueur, comme l’indique sa réponse au questionnaire d’examen par les pairs. Une de ces conventions, celle avec le Émirats arabes unis, est conforme standard minimum.

Social conventions govern countless behaviors all of us engage in every day, from how we greet each other to the languages we speak. But how can shared conventions emerge spontaneously in the absence of a central coordinating authority? The Naming Game model shows that networks of locally interacting individuals can spontaneously self-organize to produce global coordination. Here, we provide a ...

This paper analyzes the effect of behavior conventions in agent groups. An emergence approach to the convention formation through the propagation and evaluation of plans is presented, which is based on the analysis for the convention effect to the utility of a single agent. This approach is able to generate complex conventions and suited to open environments. It is also jibe with the autonomy o...

In the real world we observe a proliferation of regional dialects and jargons. Most of the research on naming conventions focuses on how to explain the process that allows a single naming convention to establish itself. This paper presents a different approach that aims to investigate why different conventions may emerge and coexist for a certain amount of time. The naming game is an abstractio...

Research shows that ten major river systems transport a significant percentage of plastics into the oceans and seas, most which have their source in Asia. Interestingly, none except one States from these originate or traverse are Party to UN global water conventions. This paper, therefore, explores reasons why been slow join not Conventions, potential impacts they could if were. The paper concl...