Keywords: association chinook salmon clustering foraging group living killer whale Orcinus orca prey social dynamics social organization For the majority of social species, group composition is dynamic, and individuals are interconnected in a heterogeneous social network. Social network structure has far-reaching implications for the ecology of individuals and populations. However, we have litt...

social participation has a critical effect on quality of life in any society. in this paper, we try to evaluate eventual relationships between the structure of power in family and quality and quantity of social participation. the main objective is to measure the correlation between the type of socialization in the family of orientation (origin), and the type of social participation and its scop...

Websites that provide content creation and sharing features have become quite popular recently. These sites allow users to categorize and browse content using ‘tags’ or free-text keyword topics. Since users contribute and tag social media content across a variety of social web platforms, creating new knowledge from distributed tag data has become a matter of performing various tasks, including ...

S ocial networks are ubiquitous in our internet-dominated culture, and the new virtual social networks have a lot in common with traditional social networks (e.g., friends and colleagues). In all cases, it is important who interacts with whom. Lately, there has been much theoretical and empirical work on how the behavior of individuals can be influenced by their social ties and how ties are dis...

Two distinct learning mechanisms are considered for a population of agents who engage in decentralized search for the common optimum. An agent may choose to learn via innovation (individual learning) or via imitation (social learning). The agents are endowed with heterogeneous skills in engaging in the two modes of learning. When the agents choose imitation, they also choose whom to learn from....

post disaster reconstruction in the destructed zones entails the social aspects in addition to the physical and urban aspects, because of the presence of affected people in the very location. the presented research aims to assess the social aspects of the post disaster conditions in the course of reconstruction, which take into consideration the related social factors in the affected community....