T he Women’s Empowerment Project (WEP) was created by the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless (CCH). Its goal is to empower women who are homeless to advocate for their right to decent and affordable housing, child care, and livable wage jobs. Critical to these efforts was the acquisition and development of an abandoned building on Chicago’s South Side: the Brand New Beginnings Project (BNB)1, a...

CONTEXT Physical activity coalitions are increasingly forming to meet the demands associated with policy, systems, and environmental change necessary to realize increases in population levels of physical activity. Little is known about what makes physical activity coalitions successful; however, evidence from community-based coalitions in other public health domains suggests that factors relate...

Coalition formation is an important coordination problem in multi-agent robotics when a particular task cannot be accomplished by a single robot. We draw inspiration from the male bottlenose dolphins, which form varied levels of alliances to increase their chances of mating. We model the multi-level alliance formation of dolphins using tools from hybrid systems and embedded graph grammars in or...

Planned intervention to achieve stakeholder cooperation and coalition is essential for successful environmental management. Agent-based modelling on a computer has the potential to build a practical theory of intervention in this and related contexts. Potentially we can compare real intervention strategies with those an agent-based model suggests and hence obtain new insights and guidelines of ...

Trustworthiness besides other decision making factors like technical or regulatory requirements can be one key aspect for the decision making in coalition formation processes with agents in the energy domain. In this paper the trustworthiness facet information security is used to describe the realized security measures and standards of the systems for coalising energy agents as one trust buildi...