The Centipede game is an abstract model of reciprocal relationships in which two individuals alternate in helping each other at relatively small personal cost. Whereas mutual cooperation can benefit both individuals in the long run, a paradoxical but logically compelling backward induction argument suggests that cooperation is irrational. Empirical studies have reported reliable deviations from...

Human cooperation represents a spectacular outlier in the animal world. Unlike other creatures, humans frequently cooperate with genetically unrelated strangers, often in large groups, with people they will never meet again, and when reputation gains are small or absent. Experimental evidence and evolutionary models suggest that strong reciprocity, the behavioral propensity for altruistic punis...

interorganizational coordination (ioc) is a critical part of planning, because planning mostly involves multiple organizational interactions. investment and employment are considered as multi-dimensional and multi-sectional challenges that the management of them requires intersectional and interorganizational cooperation. the goal of this research is the investigation of the interorganizational...

s the purpose of this study was to identify indicators of social capital and pursue their correlation to communicational skill of mangers. this descriptive-correlation study has an applied objective. the population is composed of all employees (243 individuals) of nonprofit organizations in noor city. the total number of 85 individuals was selected in random sampling as the sample. in this stud...

Social cooperation is defined as a joint action for mutual benefit that depends on the individual and the counterparts' behaviors. To gain valid evidence for social cooperation behavior we conducted a series of experiments in our suggested fully automated non-conditioned maze and depicted three major findings: (i) During 18 days of training the rats showed a progressive social learning curve as...

Using a symmetric 2-person prisoners’ dilemma as the base game, each player receives a signal for the number of rounds to be played with the same partner. The actual number of rounds (the length of the supergame) is determined by the maximal signal where each player expects the other’s signal to be smaller, respectively larger, by a fixed number of rounds with 50% probability. In the tradition ...

The paper illustrates the present role of phenomenological psychopathology by outlining its methods and focusing on some of its major issues: embodiment or body scheme, intentionality, time consciousness and intersubjectivity. The application of these categories to the analysis of psychotic disorders is demonstrated. Special emphasis is given to the relationship between phenomenology and cognit...

The increase of international competition motivated most of the organizations to create useful shared mutual cooperation with supply chain partners since they understood that cooperation and collaboration of supply chain partners is the prerequisite for the increase of reliability level and the decrease of risks and also the enhancement of innovative qualities and profitability of the companies...

We study the mutual interference problem arising in the fast growing market of automotive radars. For the widely used frequency-modulated continuous waveform automotive radars, the major consequences of mutual interference are ghost targets and increased noise floor. The schemes of interference mitigation are then investigated, including adaptive signal processing in the time domain at receive ...

This paper addresses the cooperation problem for a team of mobile robots in adversarial environments. Considering the mutual influence among the robots, two key factors are defined: the impact factor and the suffering factor. A stochastic assignment model is built, based on the geometric topology of the targets, through which the robots can exhibit temporal cooperation. To reduce computational ...