It is widely established that the Big Five personality traits of conscientiousness, agreeableness, and emotional stability are antecedents to workplace deviance (Berry, Ones, & Sackett, 2007). However, these meta-analytic findings are based on self-reported personality traits. A recent meta-analysis by Oh, Wang, and Mount (2011) identified the value of acquaintance-reported personality in the p...

There is an interesting and instructive problem with Richard Fumerton’s acquaintance theory of noninferential justification. Fumerton’s explicit account requires acquaintance with the truth-maker of one’s belief and yet he admits that one can have noninferential justification when one is not acquainted with the truthmaker of one’s belief but instead acquainted with a very similar truth-maker. O...

We define the following parameter of connected graphs. For a given graph G = (V,E) we place one agent in each vertex v ∈ V . Every pair of agents sharing a common edge are declared to be acquainted. In each round we choose some matching of G (not necessarily a maximal matching), and for each edge in the matching the agents on this edge swap places. After the swap, again, every pair of agents sh...

This paper endorses and expounds the widely held view that all experience involves pre-reflective self-consciousness or self-awareness. It argues does not involve any sort of ‘me-ness’ ‘mine-ness’, is essentially relational, has subject as intentional object, representation, in particular self-representation, well ‘immediate acquaintance’, immediate self-acquaintance; cannot one primordial resp...

This paper presents Limone, a new coordination model that facilitates rapid application development over ad hoc networks consisting of logically mobile agents and physically mobile hosts. Limone assumes an agent-centric perspective on coordination by allowing each agent to define its own acquaintance policy and by limiting all agent-initiated interactions to agents that satisfy the policy. Agen...

John Hawthorne and David Manley wrote an excellent book on the many issues surrounding the twin notions of reference and singular thought. The book is divided into two parts corresponding to two main objectives. In Part I, which is titled " Against Acquaintance " and includes Chapters 1-3, they present a first case in favour of what they call liberalism — the view according to which neither ref...

The problems of re-configuration and re-planing in multi-agent systems exploring acquaintance models of their behavior are discussed throughout this paper. Both the autonomous and supervised methods of replaning are distinguished. The advantages of the tri-base acquaintance models used in the ProPlanT production planning system for solving the reconfiguration and re-planing tasks are sketched.

Acquaintance is the name of a technique for information processing that combines the robustness of an n-gram-based algorithm with a novel vector-space model. Acquaintance gauges similarity among documents on the basis of common features, permitting document categorization based on a common language, a common topic, or common subtopics. The algorithm is completely languageand topicindependent, a...