A goal within the field of multiagent systems is to achieve scaling to large systems involving hundreds or thousands of agents. In such systems the communication requirements for agents as well as the individual agents’ ability to make decisions both play critical roles in performance. We take an incremental step towards improving scalability in such systems by introducing a novel algorithm tha...

A meta-analysis of 128 studies examined the effects of extrinsic rewards on intrinsic motivation. As predicted, engagement-contingent, completion-contingent, and performance-contingent rewards significantly undermined free-choice intrinsic motivation (d = -0.40, -0.36, and -0.28, respectively), as did all rewards, all tangible rewards, and all expected rewards. Engagement-contingent and complet...

in the present scenario each and every industrial organization is surrounded by an unbrokenable mount known as competition. to subdue this arduous mount, organizations have to encourage the citizenship behavior among employees which enhance the success and effectiveness of an organization, because employees are often viewed as invaluable assets of organizations. as an evident of this, earlier s...

We compared temporal and probability discounting of a nonconsumable reward (money) and three directly consumable rewards (candy, soda, and beer). When rewards were delayed, monetary rewards were discounted less steeply than directly consumable rewards, all three of which were discounted at equivalent rates. When rewards were probabilistic, however, there was no difference between the discountin...