The real challenge of creating believable and enjoyable board game arti cial opponents lies no longer in analysing millions of moves per minute. Instead, it lies in creating opponents that are socially aware of their surroundings and that can interact socially with other players. In traditional board games, where face-to-face interactions, social actions and strategic reasoning are important co...

Outbreak of security, hygienic, and … problems has caused civil managers of Birjand to realize the existence of marginalization phenomenon within the city; and seek to detect the procedure of development and organization, specially descending social consequences of this issue. The research is descriptive and applicable and is implemented to target the detection of the effective factors on formi...

just a few days back, i attended a speech, performed by an esteemed professor of psychiatry regarding reconciliation and conflicts in the history of drug opposition in iran. at that meeting, initial rules of struggling with addiction in the safavieh era were discussed; about how rules were stereotyped and inefficient since then. there were talks about increase in addiction rate during different...

Efforts to address past human rights violations in Indonesia have experienced both benefits and drawbacks, creating a dilemma for administrations including the governments headed by Abdurrahman Wahid, Megawati, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Joko Widodo. Attempts utilize court mechanism resolving East Timor Tanjung Priok violation cases were unsuccessful. Furthermore, Truth Reconciliation Commission...

This paper will discuss a reframing of the ICT4D agenda of WSIS, and the importance of culturally relevant, grassroots, and " bottom-up " approaches for ICT interventions. The " ICT4D " framing needs to be expanded to accommodate a more realistic expectation of the effects and promises of ICTs. ICTs can have unexpected effects on communities, as " good " and " bad " outcomes can be intertwined ...