We analyze a model of jury decision making in which jurors deliberate before casting their votes. We consider a wide range of voting institutions and show that deliberations render these equivalent with respect to the sequential equilibrium outcomes they generate. In particular, in the context of a jury setup, all voting rules excluding the two types of unanimity rules (one requiring a unanimou...

By analyzing data from a national panel survey of adolescents (ages 12-17) and their parents conducted around the 2008 general election, this study explores the varied roles communication plays in socializing youth into democratic citizenship. In particular, we propose and test a communication mediation model of youth socialization, in which interdependent communication processes located in the...

This paper reports the lowest level of specification of a new cross-platform robotic architecture for HRI applications called EICA. The main contribution of this paper is a thorough analysis of some of the challenges HRI applications impose on the underlying architecture, and the details of the reactive layer of the EICA architecture that was designed to meet those challenges emphasizing how lo...

This paper presents a hybrid architecture that facilitates the incurporation of a case-based planning system as the reasoning motor for a deliberative agent. This architecture makes possible to solve a wide range of problems in terms of agents and multi-agent systems. The problems are resolved in terms of plans, using plans that have already been experienced.

One approach to understanding “reasons”—including both reasons for action and reasons for belief—postulates a fundamental connection between reasons and reasoning. According to this approach, there is a reason for you to φ—where φ-ing could be either an action (such as writing a letter) or an attitude (such as believing that it is snowing)—if and only if there is a possible process of sound or ...

Although they are vastly outnumbered by simpler control systems, complex, “deliberative” control systems have evolved on our planet. Hence, agents with deliberative capabilities must have adaptive advantages over agents with simpler control systems in some environments. This paper examines the tradeoffs between the costs of control systems and the benefits they offer in a variety of environment...

Partnerships and co-operative environmental management are increasing worldwide as is the call for scientific input in the public process of ecosystem management. In Hawaii, private landowners, non-governmental organizations, and state and federal agencies have formed watershed partnerships to conserve and better manage upland forested watersheds. In this paper, findings of an international wor...