Societies are regulated by norms and, consequently, autonomous agents that want to be part of them must be able to reason about norms. However, no reasoning can be done if agents lack a model of norms that allows them to know how by complying with norms some of their goals might be affected. In this paper, a general model of norms is proposed. By contrast with current models of norms, our model...

It provides family planning and reproductive health (FP/RH) program planners and implementers with suggestions for how to incorporate activities that address male gender norms into their portfolios. This approach moves beyond a male involvement approach, which seeks to engage men in FP/RH programming, but does not necessarily take steps to address harmful male gender norms. This brief is design...

every society has its own culture, values, and ideology. translations convey the meaning as well as cultural and ideological values, beliefs, ideas and norms from source culture to target culture. one type of translation which nowadays is popular among people, and can attract so many audiences in different ages is audiovisual translation (avt), particularly dubbing. if there is difference betwe...

introduction: although the contribution of organizational learning to employee organizational performance is well documented, the mechanisms that explain such relationship remain unclear. accordingly, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the interactional role of organizational learning and informal norms in accountability and job performance of the staff in a medical department. methods...

background: to compare the effectiveness of basnef and classic educational models to improve the assertion skill level of high school boy students. methods: the 60 high school male students from shiraz city, fars province iran, were participated in this study. they were randomly divided in two groups (groups a and b). the group a attended in designed educational planning based on basnef model a...

public order, as a principle in the framework of national laws, is a tool for protecting private and public interests in a society. observance of the norms and public order in any jurisdiction is important as far as the the influence of this chariness on contracts in the field of private international laws is undeniable. with the formation of new rights such as intellectual property rights in t...

Triangular norms in the study of probabilistic metric spaces as a special kind of associative functions defined on the unit interval. These functions have found applications in many areas since then. In this study, we present new methods for constructing triangular norms and triangular conorms on an arbitrary bounded lattice under some constraints. Also, we give some illustrative examples for t...

We address the collaborative planning problem in teams of agents where partners have different objectives and norms. In this context, agreeing on the best course of action to adopt represents a significant challenge. Concurrent actions and causal plan-constraints may lead to conflicts of opinion on what to do. Moreover, individual norms can constrain agent behaviour. We propose an argumentation...