Recent protest movements such as #MeToo exposed that institutional change initiatives targeting harassment and discrimination have so far failed to achieve equity. We propose this is because policy fail account for the motivation of those privileged by inequality regimes maintain perpetuate these systems. Addressing gaps in collective action scholarship, we introduce a normative framework conce...

Different authors have addressed a number of problems in the area distributed control proposing convincing solutions to specific such as static coverage, dynamic coverage/exploration, rendezvous, flocking, formation control. However, major limitation problem-specific approaches is fundamental lack flexibility when group meets unexpected conditions and has change its goal on fly. In this paper, ...

This paper examines the impact of take-back laws within a manufacturer/remanufacturer competitive framework. Take-back laws require that firms take responsibility for the collection/disposal costs of their products. We consider two alternative implementations of take-back laws that are distinguished by the degree of control that the manufacturer has on returns sold to the remanufacturer. In one...

This study builds on the assumption that large-scale social phenomena emerge out of the interaction between individual cognitive mechanisms and social dynamics. Within this framework, we empirically investigated the propagation of memory effects (retrieval induced forgetting and practice effects) through sequences of social interactions. We found that the influence a public figure has on an ind...

This study examines the collective use of the electronic information and communication channels and their impact on citizen participation for public discourse. Using both quantitative and qualitative research methods, we investigate public communication channels available for government service provision in a large metropolis in China. Specifically, four electronic communication channels are an...

This paper concerns the emergent properties of collective ro-botic systems with imposed microscopic and macroscopic constraints. These constraints dramatically impact the emergent behavior of collective systems so that creating desired emergence becomes very challenged. In this paper we present the top-down swarm embodiment methodology that allows obtaining desired collective behavior in system...