Electronic consultation through the Internet has become an important means of eparticipation in order to enable interaction and discussion among government agencies and citizens on public policies and decisions. Tools that enhance the quality of electronic consultations need therefore to be designed in a way that better opinions and arguments are produced. Well designed ICT tools can contribute...

This paper introduces communication systems (CS) as a unified model for socially intelligent systems. This model derived from sociological systems theory, combines the empirical analysis of communication in a social system with logical processing of social information to provide a general framework for computational components that exploit communication processes in multiagent systems. We prese...

Understanding how people are likely to move is key efficient and safe robot navigation in human environments. However, mobile robots can only observe a fraction of the environment at time, while activity patterns may also change different times. This article introduces new methodology for exploration maximize knowledge by deciding where when collect observations. We introduce an policy driven e...

We extend the classic sequential stochastic assignment problem to include arrivals of workers. When workers are all of the same type, we show that the socially optimal policy is the same as the individually optimal policy where workers are given priority according to LCFS. This result also holds under several variants in the model assumptions. When workers have different types, we show that the...

Although China has become the world’s second largest economy, a serious urgent issue of global consequences as well as the major obstacle in the process of China’s economic development is the lack of CSR. Through CSR initiatives, enterprises of all sizes, in cooperation with their stakeholders, can help to reconcile economic, social and environmental ambitions. Socially responsible supply chain...