Abstract Shweder et al. (1997) proposed the three domains of morality: Autonomy, Community, and Divinity. This study used situation sampling to explore how people from Japan U.S. interpret moral transgressions provided in their own another cultural context. Specifically, analysis tested whether participants with one background recognize culturally congruent as violations more frequently feel ha...

Darwin-inspired population thinking suggests approaching culture as a population of items of different types, whose relative frequencies may change over time. Three nested subtypes of populational models can be distinguished: evolutionary, selectional and replicative. Substantial progress has been made in the study of cultural evolution by modelling it within the selectional frame. This progres...

Models of cultural evolution study how the distribution of cultural traits changes over time. The dynamics of cultural evolution strongly depends on the way these traits are transmitted between individuals by social learning. Two prominent forms of social learning are payoff-based learning (imitating others that have higher payoffs) and conformist learning (imitating locally common behaviours)....

A promising technique used in some planning systems to improve their performance is the use of domain dependent search control knowledge. We present a procedure for compiling search control knowledge, expressed declaratively in a logic, into the preconditions of the plan actions (operators). We do this within the framework of the situation calculus by introducing a transformation of nonMarkovia...

Reasoning about perception of depth and about spatial relations between moving physical objects is a challenging problem. We investigate the representation of depth and motion by means of depth profiles whereby each object in the world is represented as a single peak. We propose a logical theory, formulated in the situation calculus (SC), that is used for reasoning about object motion (includin...

By using an example from a robot navigating domain, we argue that to specify declaratively the behavior of an agent, we need to have a formal and explicit notion of \quality plans." To that end, we propose the following three domain independent measures of plan quality: a plan is said to be A-minimalif none of the actions in it can be deleted and have it continue to be a plan; it is said to be ...