Models of territorial defence tend to omit two characteristics of many territorial systems: repeated intrusions by the same individual and the learning processes of residents and intruders. Here we present state-dependent, dynamic models of feeding territories, designed to investigate temporal patterns of resident aggression towards intruders that are capable of spatial learning. We compare two...

PUMAS is a framework based on agents and an approach Peer to Peer (P2P), which allows to nomadic user to access several sources of information through different types of devices, eventually mobile. PUMAS provides to nomadic user information adapted to her /his preferences and to the character istics of the context of use (composed of character istics such as l...

Anomadic information environment is a heterogeneous assemblage of interconnected technological, and social, and organizational elements that enable the physical and social mobility of computing and communication services between organizational actors bothwithin and across organizational borders. We analyze such environments based on their prevalent features of mobility, digital convergence, and...

I shall begin by clarifying the concept of post-nomadism, used here with reference to the subject and to architecture. Rather than supposing a transition between forms of life conceived as distinct and whole, one nomadic and the other sedentary, post-nomadism suggests transformations of a nomadic way of life without assuming that they constitute a trajectory toward a sedentist notion of becomin...

Bedouin Arabs in Israel are a Muslim society undergoing dramatic social change. The Bedouin have lived in the Negev desert since the sixth century, having migrated there from the Arabian Peninsula. In the course of the last five decades this traditionally nomadic/semi-nomadic population has undergone rapid modernization and urbanization, and today approximately 120,000 Bedouin Arabs live in the...