A framework to support “Arguing from Experience” using groups of collaborating agents (termed participant agents/players) is described. The framework is an extension of the PISA multi-party arguing from experience framework. The original version of PISA allowed n participants to promoten goals (one each) for a given example. The described extension of PISA allows individuals with the same goals...

The analysis of voting power in elections has been playing an important role in many traditional social choice problems, where the voting power of an agent is measured by whether the agent is pivotal. In this paper, we introduce two new extensions of such pivotality to measure agents’ voting power in a given profile. The first extension, called hierarchical pivotal sets, captures the voting pow...

the objective of the current study is to identify the role of professional development components in developing organizational entrepreneurship in agricultural extension management of kermanshah province. the study was fulfilled by using correlation method and relational-causal model. all the agricultural extension agents in kermanshah province equal to 456 people formed the population of this ...

the purpose of this study was to assess the process of extension program development in iranian agricultural extension system (iaes). the research instrument was a structural questionnaire with close-ended questions which its validity and reliability was confirmed by using expert panel and cranach’s alpha test, respectively. the target population of this research included all extension managers...

This publication provides county Extension agents, growers, and pesticide applicators with information on hairy indigo control options in peanut. Written by Jason Ferrell, Blaire Colvin, Pratap Devkota, published the UF/IFAS Agronomy Department, revised May 2021.

Recently, a detailed epistemic reasoning framework for multi-agent systems with byzantine faulty asynchronous agents and possibly unreliable communication was introduced. We have developed modular extension implemented on top of it, which allows to encode safely combine additional system assumptions commonly used in the modeling analysis fault-tolerant distributed systems, like reliable communi...

the state agricultural extension system (saes) due to serious limitations of finance, equipment and staff could not meet all the expectation of the farmers. use of unemployed young graduates' services as consultant, farm manager or farm supervisor has been considered as a solution to the problem and as an alternative, in recent years. this research was aimed at an evaluation of the extensi...

Hands-on education has proven to be successful in teaching basic grafting methods. MSU Extension developed and conducted eleven statewide workshops Agents Master Gardeners preferred fruit tree The hands-on provided specialists, agents, training on classes for clientele. Each workshop consisted of a pre-test, PowerPoint presentation, post-test, demonstration. Post-test scores showed significant ...

Senegalese extension services play a crucial role in agriculture which is still characterized as family and peasant-based. Extension agents provide technical support information to breeders. Today, an adaptation the use of natural resources necessary because degradation agro-pastoral ecosystem, hence need for innovative training awarenessraising strategies. Therefore, purpose was enhancement te...