Opportunism is a behavior that takes advantage of knowledge asymmetry and results in promoting agents’ own value and demoting others’ value. We propose a framework to reason about agents’ opportunistic propensity and characterize the situation where agents will perform opportunistic behavior.

This paper relates firm size and opportunism by showing that, given certain behavioral dispositions of humans, the size of a profit-maximizing firm can be determined by cognitive aspects underlying firminternal cultural transmission processes. We argue that what firms do better than markets – besides economizing on transaction costs – is to establish a cooperative regime among its employees tha...

A robot that is to assist humans in everyday activities should not only be efficient, but also choose actions that are understandable for a person. One characteristic of human task achievement is to recognize and exploit opportunities as they appear in dynamically changing environments. In this paper we explore opportunistic behavior for robots in the context of pick and place tasks with human ...

background kaposi sarcoma (ks) is an angioproliferative tumor that mainly involves mucocutaneous tissues, but extracutaneous spread to lymph nodes, gi tract, lungs, liver, pancreas, heart, and testes can occur in aids-associated ks. patients with pulmonary ks may be symptomatic or present with an asymptomatic abnormality on chest radiography. patient and method a 28-year-old man presented with ...