A key requirement in military simulation is to have executable models of tactical decision-making. Such models are used to simulate the behaviour of human entities such as submarine commanders, fighter pilots and infantry, with a view to producing realistic predictions about tactical outcomes. Tactics specify the means of achieving mission objectives, and should capture both reactive and delibe...

The so-called coalition enforcement hypothesis sees humans as self-domesticated animals engaged in the continuous activity of building morality, incorporating at the same time punishment policies. Its main intellectual value stresses the role in human and animal groups of more or less stable stages of cognitive cooperation through morality and related inexorable violence: morality and violence ...

cOAlition S and research funding policies mean open access content is no longer a ‘trend’ but rather another consideration of management for librarians libraries. In 2018, the authors this article launched new version TERMS (Techniques Electronic Resources Management). 2.0 envisages post-Plan e-resources life cycle blending management. This outlines how can dovetail into current e-resource tact...

Community-driven, collaborative approaches to health promotion have the potential to enhance skills among community members and, in turn, increase community capacity. This study uses data from an evaluation of the California Healthy Cities and Communities (CHCC) Program to examine whether, and how, community problem-solving and collaboration skills are improved among coalition members and local...

In this paper, I suggest that voters may act strategically in proportional representation elections with post-election coalition building. Based on a stylized setup involving three possible coalitions of four parties on a single policy dimension, voters whose preferred coalition is least likely to win are predicted to strategically cast their ballot for a centrist party. By contrast, those who ...

In response to an imminent surge in COVID-19 cases, the state of Massachusetts (MA) released its Crisis Standards Care (CSC) guidelines April 2020. A small group Boston healthcare providers, community members, lawyers, ethicists and disability advocates brought bear our collective strengths forge a formidable coalition now known as Coalition for Health Equity, champion rights marginalised group...

BACKGROUND Despite national declines in smoking prevalence, disparities that pose challenges to tobacco control efforts exist among rural manufacturing populations. This community case study sought to better understand the dynamics and nuances that facilitate or impede capacity-building efforts in rural communities. CONTEXT Two rural manufacturing communities in Wisconsin with similar demogra...

In this paper we study the traitor tracing problem for re-broadcasting attack. In this attack, instead of building a pirate clone device (or program) based on their secret keys and sell the clone, the attackers want to stay anonymous by redistributing the decrypted content or the actual encrypting keys for the content. To defend against this type of re-broadcasting attack, the content and its a...

When teams interact for cooperation or negotiation, there are unique dynamics that occur depending on the conditions. In this paper, a multi-agent system is used under the restrain of a network structure to model two teams of agents interacting for a common consensus, however with the presence of stubborn agents. The networks used were a minimum dumbbell network and two scale-free networks join...