Background: Entrepreneurship as a pillar of the development process in society derives from a socio-cultural context and ethics as a dimension of culture has a vibrant role in entrepreneurship. Therefore, the present study was designed to identify the factors that influence ethical entrepreneurial intention.  Method: A qualitative research approach was conducted using the data base method. The...

Intention recognition has significant applications in ambient intelligence, assisted living and care of the elderly, amongst others. In this paper we explore an approach to intention recognition based on clustering. To this end we show how to map the intention recognition problem into a clustering problem. To our knowledge the use of clustering techniques for intention recognition is novel, and...

This paper describes a model of cooperative behavior and describes how such a model can be applied in a natural language understanding system. We assume that agents attempt to recognize the plans of other agents and, then, use this plan when deciding what response to make. In particular, we show that, given a setting in which purposeful dialogues occur, this model can account for responses that...

1 Future Urban Mobility, Singapore MIT Alliance for Research and Technology 2 Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, 3 Department of Computer Science, National University of Singapore, 4 Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 5 Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Techno...

In the current investigation the assumption that intentions and actions are represented in the same medium or code (common coding hypothesis of intention and action) was tested and confirmed [Q. J. Exp. Psychol. 52 (1999) 1; Eur. J. Cognit. Psychol. 9 (1997) 129]. In two experiments it is shown that the intention to produce a spatial consequence in the environment to an otherwise spatially neut...

Recently philosophers have proposed a wide variety of interventions referred to as 'moral enhancements'. Some of these interventions are concerned with helping individuals make more informed decisions; others, however, are designed to compel people to act as the intervener sees fit. Somewhere between these two extremes lie interventions designed to direct an agent's attention either towards mor...

entrepreneurship is considered as an appropriate approach to accelerate economic development and provide employment opportunities. with this regard, entrepreneurial intention is the main determinant factor in deciding to be an entrepreneur. in order to obtain sufficient knowledge about entrepreneurship and its determinants, entrepreneurial intention of payame noor university students was studie...

background: reduction of physical activity among people is one of the most important problems of society which is resulted from life industrialization. the aim of this study was to survey knowledge and theory of planned behavior constructs inclusive attitude, intention, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control regarding girl student’s physical activity in naein payam noor university in...