This paper introduces elements for the foundation of a notion of moral system of an agent society. The paper is specially concerned with elements for the design and analysis of moral systems of agent societies that are to be embedded in social contexts involving diverse human groups.

brucellosis is a debilitative disease that imposes costs on both economy and society. it is shown that although the vaccine can prevent abortion, it does not provide complete protection against infection. in iran, brucella melitensis is a common causative agent for brucellosis and bp26 protein of this bacterium having a good antigenesity and an important vaccine candidate. in this study b. meli...

Researchers have long been interested in the role that norms can play governing agent actions multi-agent systems. Much work has done on formalising normative concepts from human society and adapting them for government of open software systems, simulation processes artificial societies. However, there comparatively little applying MAS mechanisms to understanding society. This investigates this...

Background: Little is known about pulmonary complications induced by Sulfur Mustard (SM), as a chemical warfare agent,especially considering its long term effects. The present study was carried out to investigate the association of α1-antitrypsin(A1AT), Complement component C5a, and Secretory Immunoglobulin A (sIgA) with long-term pulmonary complications on SMexposedindividuals, 20 years after ...

Context/Background Using multi-agent systems to create social simulations is a new and exciting methodology, allowing scientists to study and predict the emergence of social phenomena. In 1998, a simulation was produced by Jim Doran to study the consequences of false beliefs spread among a population. His findings suggested that in some situations, false beliefs can in fact be beneficial to a s...

This paper discusses in detail important analysis and design issues emerged during the development of an agent-based transportation e-market. This discussion is based on concepts coming from the AMCIS methodology and the JADE framework. The AMCIS methodology is specifically tailored to the analysis and design of cooperative information agent-based systems, while it supports both the levels of t...

An r-unform n-vertex hypergraph H is said to have the Manickam-Miklós-Singhi (MMS) property if for every assignment of weights to its vertices with nonnegative sum, the number of edges whose total weight is nonnegative is at least the minimum degree of H. In this paper we show that for n > 10r, every r-uniform n-vertex hypergraph with equal codegrees has the MMS property, and the bound on n is ...