In highly oppressive environments, collective resistance is very costly. Non-collective constitutes a less risky alternative. Focusing on particular oppressed setting, the Occupied Palestinian Territories, I identify everyday forms of non-collective resistance: signaling, persevering, eschewing, and coping. Characterized by low visibility targeting political goals indirectly, these activities h...

This study investigated changes in the complexity (magnitude and structure of variability) of the collective behaviours of association football teams during competitive performance. Raw positional data from an entire competitive match between two professional teams were obtained with the ProZone tracking system. Five compound positional variables were used to investigate the collective patterns...

We are building a system that harnesses the idle resources (cpu, storage, and bandwidth) of nodes (e.g., home desktops) distributed across the Internet to build useful distributed services like content distribution or remote backup. Users are compensated in return for contributing their nodes’ idle resources to the system. Collective managers bundle and manage the contributed resources and rese...

Fish species compared to animals show complicated behavior mostly to increase their survivability. One may understand the phenomenon by two different ways viz., for mutual protection and for synergic achievements of other collective tasks. As per the literature, there exist some studies related to the above collective goals for finding food by considering the data as a crisp or exact form. But ...

Recent research in human behavioral dynamics has demonstrated that co-actors often successfully achieve joint goals by adopting functionally asymmetric patterns of behavior. To better understand the evolution of such patterns in a naturalistic musical context, the current study examined how auditory-feedback delays and individual musical roles affect collective temporal stability and relative a...

A method of considering coordination and reorganization as keys in achieving (organizational) multi-agent system adaptation in unknown situations is proposed. Within a not totally predictable environment multi-agent systems are prone to failures. In such unpredicted situations the system must be able to adapt in order to accomplish its purpose. The proposed system architecture is a combination ...

â  introduction â  ethnic disputes and collective aggressions are observable in each period of history and are more evident in traditional and nomadic communities. this issue has had many life and property damages in the past and present times and it has also prevented social development to flourish. based on the damages of collective aggression, the researchers attempt to study the fundamental...

Two areas that are increasingly studied in the game-theoretic literature on terrorism and counterterrorism are collective action and asymmetric information. One contribution of this chapter is a survey and extension of continuous policy models with differentiable payoff functions. In this way, policies can be characterized as strategic substitutes (e. g., proactive measures), or strategic compl...

In recent years there has been a huge increase in the use of systems that support collective learning processes in which groups of students collaborate to achieve common goals (Gress, Fior, Hadwin, & Winne, 2010). The research field of CSCL (Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning) studies how to take advantage of technology to improve these collective processes (Dillenbourg, Jarvela, & Fisch...