Dear Participant, We are very pleased to welcome you at the GATE research institute. This workshop aims at developing scientific discussions about Social Norms and Moral Norms. The objective is to better understand when people are more, or less, likely to act honestly and follow the moral course of action and norms instead of serving their strict self-interest at the others' expense. We are ext...

In this paper, we propose a representation of excuses in the context of multiagent systems. We distinguish five classes of excuses, taking as starting point both jurisprudential and philosophical studies about this topic, and we discuss their acceptance criteria. We highlight the following classes of excuses: epistemic excuses, power-based excuses, norm-based excuses, counts as-based excuses an...

The Indices of Social Development combine over 200 variables from 25 sources, providing the most comprehensive database showing the variation of social institutions – understood as the informal norms and behaviors that pattern social interaction – across countries and over time. Based on these sources, progress on five areas, civic activism, clubs and associations, interpersonal safety and trus...

Although earthquake disasters are often termed as a 'natural' disaster, a critical analysis reveals that most of them are in fact man-made, and caused by the human activities that are related to poor construction practices in both developed and developing countries. Damage scenarios of recent earthquakes show ample examples in support of this statement. While risk perception is an important iss...

he purpose of this paper is to study the social and cultural factors that influence on youth's social trust in Mazandaran province. The theoreticalframework is based on social system theory in the form of action(T.Parsons) and the structure-agency of Anthony Giddens. The population is20 to 29 years old of Sari and Babol. 280 people were selected as the sample size. Sampling method is multi-stag...

At the present study, social and cultural factors affecting social trust have been investigated. for theoretical framework of the study, perspectives of scientists like Coleman, Putnam, Giddens, Tunis, Offe have been applied. Till now the studies on social and cultural factors affecting social trust have been investigated. For theoretical framework of the study, viewpoints of scientists like Co...

extended abstract 1- introduction ethics is the branch of philosophy that involves systematizing and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct. not that long ago, academicians were often cautious about airing the ethical dilemmas they faced in their research and academic work, but that environment is changing today (gharamaleki, 2004). research ethics involves the application of fundamen...

With an increasing number of technologies supporting interaction at a distance, trust in mediated interactions has become a key interest in the field of human computer interaction (HCI). Research covers the role of trust in mediated interactions with other individuals (e.g. in virtual teams) and organisations (e.g. via e-commerce web sites). This chapter synthesises current research into a fram...