this paper aims to investigate the role of relative deprivation in the formation of collective behavior among the young in kermanshah based on blumer’s interactionism theory. he is one of the outstanding figures concerning studies done about collective behavior in the field of sociology. he believed that collective behavior develops through five stages: social motivation, formation of connectiv...

Recently there has been increased research interest in developing autonomous, adaptive control systems of self-driving vehicles. However, there has been little work on synthesizing collective behaviours for autonomous vehicles that must safely interact and coordinate so as traffic throughput on any given road network is maximized. This work uses neuro-evolution to automate car controller design...

This research attempts to examine the role of Socio-economic factors  in establishing collective behavior of the youth in Boshehr based on Smelser' s structural theory. Smelser in one of the most well-known sociologists in collective behavior studies who explains these behaviors in the framework of social structuralism. This research conducted on survey method. 383 persons selected through syst...

Collective behaviors often spread via the self-reinforcing dynamics of critical mass. In collective behaviors with strongly self-reinforcing dynamics, incentives to participate increase with the number of participants, such that incentives are highest when the full population has adopted the behavior. By contrast, when collective behaviors have weakly self-reinforcing dynamics, incentives to pa...

Despite the rising prevalence of online collective behaviors in Mainland China, there is a dearth of research on their categorization and underlying motivations. To fill this gap, we applied grounded theory to identify the major categories of online collective behaviors in China, and conducted a survey study to understand their underlying motivations. Results show Chinese online collective beha...

In the animal world, various kinds of collective motions have been found and proven to be efficient ways of carrying out some activities such as searching for food and avoiding predators. Many scholars research the interactions of collective behaviors of human beings according to the rules of collective behaviors of animals. Based on the Lennard-Jones potential function and a self-organization ...