Certain statistical aspects of social systems are described by appropriately defined quantities named social potentials. Relations between social potentials are postulated by drawing an analogy with thermodynamics relations between thermodynamic potentials, thus obtaining a toy model of some of the statistical properties of social systems. Within this model, an interpretation of a socially rele...

Sektorem, który jest szczególnie podatny na różnego rodzaju ryzyka, rolnictwo. Chodzi tu przede wszystkim o ryzyka charakterze produkcyjnym, instytucjonalnym, jak również społecznym. Ryzykami, które istotnie mogą zachwiać stabilnością funkcjonowania gospodarstw rolnych, a co za tym idzie całego sektora, są społeczne, potwierdzają liczne badania. Stąd istotne wydaje się uzyskanie odpowiedzi pyta...

in this paper, a system of gig/l/k queue is considered. the optimal system's capacity (k), when the system is optimized with respect to the benefit of the entire system (social optimization) and when the criterion for optimality is individual gains (individual optimization), is determined and compared. in social optimization, the system capacity is obtained through maximization of the syst...

The effects of social networks are pervasive in everyday life, from the subtle effects on mundane, momentto-moment choices, to political revolutions driven through social media. The last few years have seen a rapid growth of interest in this area from researchers within artificial intelligence and multiagent systems communities. Until recently, relatively little attention has been paid on under...

Social commerce (SC) has become a new business mode for e-commerce along with the increased popularity of social networking sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Although SC has enormous business potential for practitioners and broadens research areas for scholars, existing studies on SC were limited. Little is known about the underlying processes and factors of consumers’ social sha...

A Web-based hybrid intelligent system, WebIntegrated (developed by the authors), for developing blended e-marketing, mobile marketing and social media marketing strategies is reported in this paper. The concepts, software system and associated elements or components are presented. A brief demonstration of the data entries and outputs are also provided.

examination malpractice is any act carried out by anybody that defies the rules that guides a student whose knowledge or ability is being tested in a particular knowledge or skill with the aim of distorting the student’s true knowledge or ability. this article employs three classical major sociological perspectives in analyzing examination malpractice in nigerian universities. the structural-fu...