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According to the evolutionary ethics theory, humans have developed a moral sense by means of natural selection. A “moral sense” supposes some form of cooperation, but it is not immediately clear how “natural selection” could lead to cooperation. In this research, we present a multi-agent society model which includes a cooperative act in order to investigate whether evolution theory can explain ...

This article presents a simple cooperative game theory representation of alliance formation and expansion to counter a conventional threat along the allies’ borders. Mutual defense gains, derived from allying, arise from interior borders that no longer require protection. Spatial and locational attributes of the allies are crucial when identifying the gains from mutual defense and the distribut...

The task of this article is to focus on aspects of design from a theoretical perspective that works out a general framework of techno-social design that is grounded in the notion of the participatory, cooperative, sustainable information society. The approach is normative in that it is based on the judgment that not just any information society is needed, but one that has specific qualities tha...