We develop a agent-based framework to model the emergence of collective emotions, which is applied to online communities. Agents individual emotions are described by their valence and arousal. Using the concept of Brownian agents, these variables change according to a stochastic dynamics, which also considers the feedback from online communication. Agents generate emotional information, which i...

Agent-based modeling and simulation of collective efficacy are useful to understand and study the relationship between community-related problems and individuals’ cognitive process. This paper presents a design of collective efficacy simulation using an agent-based model. We integrate collective efficacy into the framework of Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) and show how collective efficacy is ...

Utilizing finance conceptual framework, this paper applies a Frontier-Volatility analysis to illuminate regulatory policies effects on volatility under Iranian Banking Prudential Framework over the period 2003 to 2015 using the raw database collected, classified and compiled by the Rahavard Novin Co. version 3, Securities and Stock Exchange Organization. Findings portray that volatility is affe...

Social choice theory is concerned with problems of getting from information on individual reports over alternative states of the world to an acceptable means for making a collective decision over these alternatives. These problems were originally studied in the combinatorical framework provided by Arrow type impossibility theorems. More recently Chichilnisky and others have studied the problem ...

This article explores the impact of dual pandemics COVID-19 and White rage on critical consciousness-raising. It argues for a reimagining our democracy as practice collective liberation. then outlines framework social justice that moves beyond liberalism to self-interrogation, centering historically minoritized voices, accountability.

This paper outlines a framework for analysing social vulnerability to the impacts of global warming-induced climate change in the context of an agrarian centrally planned country in transition to a market economy. This approach explicitly highlights the winners and losers in adaptation, based on the concepts of entitlements and social vulnerability. An approach to defining and observing social ...

We propose a framework for named entity detection from Web content associated with semi-structured text data records, by exploiting the inherent structure via a transformation process facilitating collective detection. To learn the sequential classification model, our framework does not require training labels on the data records. Instead, we make use of existing named entity repositories such ...

Introduction 1 Major socioeconomic developments 1 Impact on employment relations and worker welfare 3 Impact of freedom of association and the effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining 4 The global collective bargaining gap 6 Conclusions 9 Appendix 1: the unspoken contract that fetters freedom of association 10 Bibliography 12 Assessing the Extent of Freedom of Association and...

Collective intelligence (CI), a group’s capacity to perform a wide variety of tasks, is a key factor in successful collaboration. Group composition, particularly diversity and member social perceptiveness, are consistent predictors of CI, but we have limited knowledge about the mechanisms underlying their effects. To address this gap, we examine how physiological synchrony, as an indicator of c...