We extend real options research by introducing the concept of collective real options and model how collective real options provide strategic alliances a mechanism to manage social uncertainty. Collective real options manage social uncertainty by producing relational small wins that develop trust. The amount of trust developed by acquiring a collective real option depends on the exposure of all...

In open set recognition (OSR), almost all existing methods are designed specially for recognizing individual instances, even these instances collectively coming in batch. Recognizers decision either reject or categorize them to some known class using empirically-set threshold. Thus the threshold plays a key role. However, selection it usually depends on knowledge of classes, inevitably incurrin...

Collective Action under Uncertainty Michael Thomas McBride 2002 I examine collective action under uncertainty in public good games and social networks. The first chapter analyzes discrete public good games in which the threshold number of contributions needed for provision is randomly selected from a known probability distribution function. Simultaneous voluntary-contribution equilibria are oft...

Using a system of axioms among with a modified definition of boundary on the basis of the intuitionistic fuzzy sets, we formulate an inductive structure for the dimension of fuzzy spaces which has been defined by Coker. This new definition of boundary allows to characterize an intuitionistic fuzzy clopen set as a set with zero boundary. Also, some critical properties and applications are establ...

This paper raises the question of collective decision making under possibilistic uncertainty; We study four egalitarian decision rules and show that in the context of a possibilistic representation of uncertainty, the use of an egalitarian collective utility function allows to get rid of the Timing Effect. Making a step further, we prove that if both the agents’ preferences and the collective r...

We discuss a recently introduced model of heterogeneous interacting agents behaving under inductive rationality. We derive the exact solution of the model in the limit of infinitely many agents using tools of statistical physics of disordered systems. Our results show that the impact of agents on the collective behavior plays a key role: even though for each agent this effect is very small, the...

Distinct types of collective intelligence are prominent over different countries. This study explores why some types of collective intelligence knowledge services flourish in some countries but not in others by employing an analogy related to Darwin’s evolutionary theory. This study uses geographical isolation theory and Hofstede’s cultural dimensions theory (such as the uncertainty avoidance i...

Let R be the least ordinal such that L (R) is admissible. Let A = fx 2 R j (9 < R) s.t. x is ordinal deenable in L (R) g. It is well known that (assuming determinacy) A is the largest countable inductive set of reals. Let T be the theory: ZFC Replacement + \There exists ! Woodin cardinals which are coonal in the ordinals." T has consistency strength weaker than that of the theory ZFC + \There e...

We study a new proof principle in the context of constructive ZermeloFraenkel set theory based on what we will call “non-deterministic inductive definitions”. We give applications to formal topology as well as a predicative justification of this principle.