While intentions are at the center of communication theories such as Relevance Theory, and also of theories of action in general, the interaction between communicative and non-communicative intentions has not been much investigated within the relevance-theoretic framework. This paper discusses Bratman’s (1987) Theory of Planning, which recognizes the critical role of intentions in governing our...

The commonplace observation that agents—human and artificial alike—are subject to resource bounds makes salient the possibility that an agent might have the capability to control its own reasoning and decision making abilities, to tune itself so that it has a better chance of spending time thinking about the right things at the right times. The general study of metareasoning aims to understand ...

In this paper, we consider the issue of designing agents that successfully balance the amount of time spent in reconsidering their intentions against the amount of time spent acting to achieve them. Following a brief review of the various ways in which this problem has previously been analysed, we motivate and introduce a simple formal model of agents, which is closely related to the well-known...

Customer reviews in social media contain valuable electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) information of products, which facilitates firms’ business strategy and individual consumers’ comparison shopping. This study examined the effects of eWOM motivations on customers’ behavioral intentions in the Mobile operators setting. eWOM advertising is very important because nowadays many customer buying decisi...

The neuronal physiological correlates of clinical heterogeneity in human essential tremor are unknown. We now test the hypothesis that thalamic neuronal and EMG activities during intention essential tremor are similar to those of the intention tremor which is characteristic of cerebellar lesions. Thalamic neuronal firing was studied in a cerebellar relay nucleus (ventral intermediate, Vim) and ...

in this article we are going to investigate effect of factors effect turnover intention. population is all of employees of education administration of kurdistan province and sample includes 140 people of this population which were selected randomly. competitiveness questionnaire of brown et al.(1198), self efficacy of jones (1986), effort of brown and leigh(1996), performance of babin and boles...

electronic word of mouth (e-wom) is a new emergent arena in which, consumers share their experiences and reviews on various brands and products such as laptop with each other, through online communication channels. this is a practical and survey research. research’s statistical society is the students of allameh tabatabaei university. statistical sample is selected by relative categorized and a...