Groups or societies of agents may collaborate on a common goal and thereby achieve more than by working individually. This paper discusses the use of societal theories to model the carrying out of a plan by a group of agents. We focus on plans that relate to agent motion since the low-level aspects of such plans are well understood and motion provides clear criteria for successful planning. We ...

We compute the number of summands in q-averages of norms needed to approximate an Euclidean norm. It turns out that these numbers depend on the norm involved essentially only through the maximal ratio of the norm and the Euclidean norm. Particular attention is given to the case q = ∞ (in which the average is replaced with the maxima). This is closely connected with the behavior of certain famil...

Social norms enable coordination in multiagent systems by constraining agent behaviour in order to achieve a social objective. Automating the design of social norms has been shown to be NP-complete, requiring a complete state enumeration. A planning-based solution has been proposed previously to improve performance. This approach leads to verbose, problem-specific norms due to the propositional...

background & aim : despite the well evidenced health benefits of regular physical activity, many iranian college students do not engage in physical activity sufficiently. the aim of this study was to assess cognitive factors related to regular physical activity in college students in hormozgan university of medical sciences, bandar abbass, iran. methods & materials : a total of 314 students fro...

background advocacy coalitions play an increasingly prominent role within the global health landscape, linking actors and institutions to attract political attention and resources. this paper examines how coalitions negotiate among themselves and exercise hidden forms of power to produce policy on the basis of their beliefs and strategic interests.   methods this paper examines the beliefs...

in this research, we have investigated the relationship between psychological and social factors and green consumer behavior in tehran. with a sample size of 316, we have examined 15 hypotheses. the positive significant relationship between environmental attitudes, personal norms, perceived consumer effectiveness, and social (injunctive) norms with green consumer behavior dimensions (green purc...