Identifying specific aspects of peer social norms that influence adolescent substance use may assist international prevention efforts. This study examines two aggregated measures of social norms in the school setting and their predictive association with substance (alcohol, tobacco and marijuana) use 2 years later in a large cross-national population-based cohort of adolescents. The primary hyp...

Organisation-oriented approaches to the formation of multi-agent systems use roles and norms to describe an agent’s social position within an artificial society or Virtual Organisation. Norms are descriptive information for a role – they determine the obligations and social constraints for an agent’s actions. A legal instrument for establishing such norms are contracts signed by agents when the...

This article deals with the process of formation of norms in societies in which individuals act according to their own cognitive framework under communication. The individuals acquire information from others and interpret it. The way of individual’s action is revised through changing the source of information and reforming the method of interpretation. Through the revising mechanisms, assemblag...

In this paper we propose that “norms-based” intellectual property systems exist and are an important complement to or substitute for law-based intellectual property systems. Normsbased IP systems operate on social norms that are held in common by members of a given community and specify the nature and extent of rights that a group member can assert to intellectual property. They also include pr...

Abstract In this paper, I outline and defend the view that variations in compliance levels with one same norm represent different norms about following . support of claim, first argue classic game-theoretic accounts, which define as Nash equilibria noncooperative games, typically consider separate norms. After that, suggest a more fine-grained, distinction accounts for degrees show how to incor...

Humor ratings are provided for 4,997 English words collected from 821 participants using an online crowd-sourcing platform. Each participant rated 211 words on a scale from 1 (humorless) to 5 (humorous). To provide for comparisons across norms, words were chosen from a set common to a number of previously collected norms (e.g., arousal, valence, dominance, concreteness, age of acquisition, and ...

We prove some common coupled fixed point theorems for contractive mappings in fuzzy metric spaces under geometrically convergent t-norms.

Effective communication helps communities to achieve common goals, but is especially hard to achieve in virtual adversarial collaborative communities. In these communities, the matching of widely differing objectives as well as interests is very complex. We study a case of a virtual adversarial collaborative community in which the common goal was to author reports assessing the amount of true c...