The Rock-Paper-Scissors(RPS) game is a paradigmatic model for cyclic dominance in biological systems. Here we consider this game in the social context of competition between opinions in a networked society. In our model, every agent has an opinion which is drawn from the three choices: rock, paper or scissors. In every timestep a link is selected randomly and the game is played between the node...

In this paper, a new frequency-weighted model reduction method with an a priori error bound is proposed. The method is a generalization of Enns technique and yields stable models even when both input and output weightings are included. The proposed method is compared with other existing methods using numerical examples.

Knowledge societies also named learning social networks allow interaction and collaboration between individuals (instructors and students), who share their connections under a scheme of learning communities around common learning interest. In this paper, we present an affective tutoring system inside a knowledge society implemented in a learning social network. We have designed a new architectu...

The objective of this article is to examine how the inequalities of participation in network society governmental systems affect the extent that individuals are empowered or disempowered within those systems. By using published data in conjunction with theories of communication, a critical secondary data analysis was conducted. This critical analysis argues that the Digital Divide involves issu...

contemporary iranian society is transiting from traditional outlook to modern attitudes. social chaos matched with behavioral and thinking chaos is characteristic of transition period. political structure, as a part of society, alongside the juridical, economic and social structure is transiting from traditional sovereignty to intellectual and legal one. political participation, as a tangible a...

the third civilization wave is characterized by the development of information society. in future, a high information availability and knowledge are conceived as prominent accelerators of economy. under the third wave, the community of computer experts understands the network age. the attribute ‘network’ expresses current trends, i.e. e-business, virtual organizations, virtual teams, etc. bette...

society is growing increasingly dependent upon large-scale, highly distributed systems that operate in unbounded open network environments. unless safeguards are incorporated in the system, a failure of even a single component, e.g. a link or a node, can significantly impact the network performance and can cause highly expensive damages. the discipline of survivability attempts to ensure that n...