© 2015 Harborside Press® A variety of methodologic approaches exist for individuals interested in conducting research. Selection of a research approach depends on a number of factors, including the purpose of the research, the type of research questions to be answered, and the availability of resources. The purpose of this article is to describe survey research as one approach to the conduct of...

The paper investigates the role of an affective system as part of an ethologically-inspired action-selection mechanism for virtual animals in a 3D interactive graphics environment. It discusses the integration of emotion with flocking and grazing behaviour and a mechanism for communicating emotion between animals; develops a metric for analyzing the collective behaviour of the animals and its c...

In the modern advertising agency selection contest, each participating agency specifies not only its proposed creative campaign but also the budget required to purchase the agreed-on media. The advertiser selects the agency that offers the best combination of creative quality and media cost, similar to conducting a score auction. To participate in the contest, each agency needs to incur an up-f...

this study aimed to investigate the relationship between job satisfaction and rganizational citizenship behavior and personality traits city staff lorestan. the research objective of the application and the method of data collection, descriptive, correlative to-be conducted in 1394. the study population of 500 municipal employees lorestan 217 employees were selected using cochran formula the se...

Decision making is a vital component of human and animal behavior that involves selecting between alternative options and generating actions to implement the choices. Although decisions can be as simple as choosing a goal and then pursuing it, humans and animals usually have to make decisions in dynamic environments where the value and the availability of an option change unpredictably with tim...

genetic parameters were estimated in a base and closed population of iranian honeybee colonies. data were obtained on 500-700 iranian native population of honey­bee colonies (honeybee breeding project in central region of iran) subject to 9 successive generation of selection. these populations had been selected for honey production, swarming behavior, and defense behavior. heritability of honey...

In this paper we present how behavior networks can be extended to model behavior selection of agents in dynamic and continuous domains. More precisely, the focus is on a mechanism for selection of concurrent behaviors by explicit representation of resources a behavior makes use of. Further it describes how the behavior selection process can be coupled with behavior execution in continuous domai...