Internet-based multi-agent systems call for new metaphors, abstractions, methodologies and enabling technologies specifically tailored to agent-oriented engineering. While coordination models define the framework to manage the space of agent interaction, ruling social behaviours and accomplishing social tasks, their impact on system design and development calls for an effective coordination tec...

one of the significant discourses of principles of jurisprudence is the study of the ruling for tajarrī according to the dictate of intellect and that the uṣūlīs have been disagreed as to whether tajarrī is unlawful or not. terminologically, tajarrī is practical opposition (insolence) to the master’s command, either obligatory or unlawful according to the perpetrator’s opinion; whereas, their p...

Proposition 1: As I argued in the paper, there is no equilibrium in which the dictator uses a pure strategy and the ruling coalition conditions its decision to stage a coup on the observed signal. In any equilibrium in mixed strategies, (i) the ruling coalition stages a coup with probability βθ such that, given the correlation between his actions and the signal θ, the dictator is indifferent be...

Design: Cross-sectional study of pediatric encounters motivated by cold symptoms between October 1, 2000, and June 30, 2001. Each encounter was videotaped. Physicians completed a postvisit survey that measured whether they perceived the parent as expecting antibiotics. Coded communication variables were merged with survey variables. Multivariate analyses identified key predictors of parent-phys...

In this paper we present a procedure for removing ruling lines from a handwritten document image that does not require any preprocessing or postprocessing tasks and it does not break existing characters. We take advantage of common ruling line properties such as uniform width, predictable spacing, position vs. text, etc. The deletion procedure of the detected ruling line is based on the fact th...