objectives: this paper investigates the relationship between social capital and collective action in some rural areas of fars province and at the same time study determining factors affecting the social capital formation. method: this research was carried out with survey method in the 12 villages of fars province and selected a sample of 509 head of households. findings: among indicators of soc...

Action The general idea of an abstract action is similar to a procedure call in imperative programming languages. The procedures should be defined in 2APL by means of the so-called PC-rules, which stands for procedure call rules (see subsection ‘Procedure Call Rules’ for a description of PC-rules). As we will see in that subsection, a PC-rule can be used to associate a plan to an abstract actio...

Good communication is the basis for effective cooperation. An area where cooperation is essential is multidisciplinary healthcare. In this paper we will present a research project that aims at promoting effective multidisciplinary communication in a healthcare environment. We will answer the question of whether empirical modelling of the communication and cooperation patterns can be done based ...

The term ‘sustainable development’ was coined to denote a political goal some 40 years ago; debates about sustainability date back considerably further. These reflect the growing awareness of destructive effects human activities on natural foundations life. Numerous initiatives have been launched trigger turnaround, with 2030 Agenda and SDGs being latest attempt. However, substantial progress h...

absence of enough connection between forum and action is principal reason for existence of exorbitant jurisdiction. some jurisdictional rules such as conclusion place of contract in the historical ground especially revolution of communication instrument has lost its logical ground. because of political interest such as protection of forum nationals, spite of states increasing cooperation has be...

Models of decentralized online planning vary in the information that individual agents use to make local action decisions. Some models consider only local observations, eschewing coordination through communication. Others use communication to ensure that all agents are aware of the action decisions of others, but assume costless and delay-free communication. In this paper, we propose a model of...