Information is the most valuable resource for coping and recovery work in crisis management. It is the foundation for coordination, collaboration and decision-making. However, several challenges face information retrieval, evaluation and exchange processes in inter-organizational crisis management. On the one hand, due to the dynamic nature of crisis situations, information demands are hardly p...

We introduce a framework so that communities can exchange reputation information about agents in environments where agents are migrating between communities. We view the acquisition of the reputation information as a purchase and focus on the design of a payment function to facilitate the payment for information in a way that motivates communities to truthfully report reputation information for...

From the Magle Stora Kyrkogata 9, Lund, Sweden (U.R.); Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, Kansas City, MO (J.J.D.); Faculty of Science and Technology, Institute of Clinical Exercise and Health Science, University of the West of Scotland, Hamilton, Lanarkshire, United Kingdom (Z.H.); Department of Comparative Biosciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana (F.A.K.); Instit...

In computational cognitive science, the cognitive architecture ACT-R is very popular. It describes a model of cognition that is amenable to computer implementation, paving the way for computational psychology. Its underlying psychological theory has been investigated in many psychological experiments, but ACT-R lacks a formal definition of its underlying concepts from a mathematical-computation...

Agents, in a multi agent system, communicate with each other through the process of exchanging messages which is called dialogue. Multi agent organization is generally used to optimize agents’ communications. Holonic organization demonstrates a self-similar recursive and hierarchical structure in which each holon may include some other holons. In a holonic system, lateral communication occurs b...