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Ontological Holism Without Mental Holism
Journal of Social Ontology, 2023 In his recent book Shared and Institutional Agency, Bratman (2022) argues that institutional agents consist of social rules of procedure. Those rules are policies that are shared among many of their members.
Frank Hindriks
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Institutional modelling: Adding social backbone to agent-based models
MethodsX, 2022 Institutional modelling is a branch of agent-based modelling and simulation (ABMS) that pays special attention to the social structure by incorporating institutions into these models.
Amineh Ghorbani
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Volunteering Under Institutional and Structural Change: Genesis and Agent Influences
Український соціологічний журнал, 2021 The genesis of volunteering as a source of social agency in conditions of social tension and crisis situations shifts research attention from considering volunteering as an activity that supports the work of official structures, to considering it as a ...
Lubov Bevzenko, Olena Zlobina
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The "Common Pool" Problems in the Protected Area Regarding Natural Tourism in Indonesia
Jurnal Manajemen Hutan Tropika, 2022 Phenomena that indicate the performance of the use of natural tourism in protected areas indicate that there are institutional problems in it. This study aims to determine the influence of exogenous variables on the action arena for the use of natural ...
Badi'ah +3 more
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An agent-based model of centralized institutions, social network technology, and revolution. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 This paper sheds light on the general mechanisms underlying large-scale social and institutional change. We employ an agent-based model to test the impact of authority centralization and social network technology on preference falsification and ...
Michael D Makowsky, Jared Rubin
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Comparative standard in institutional epistemology [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2019 Which epistemic value is the standard according to which we ought to compare, assess and design institutional arrangements in terms of their epistemic properties?
Zubčić Marko-Luka
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Competing agents in agent-mediated institutions [PDF]
Personal Technologies, 1998 The research reported in this paper is supported by the ESPRIT LTR 25500-COMRIS Co-Habited Mixed-Reality Information Spaces project.
Plaza, Enric +3 more
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Journal of College Orientation, Transition, and Retention, 2009 Student usage of online social networks (OSNs) has become prominent in the lives and experiences of today's college students. While not every student may be actively using OSNs, everybody knows about them and most are avid users.
Scott Silverman
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Agent Communication and Institutional Reality [PDF]
, 2005 In this paper we propose to regard an Agent Communication Language (ACL) as a set of conventions to act on a fragment of institutional reality, defined in the context of an artificial institution. Within such an approach, we first reformulate a previously proposed commitment-based semantics for ACLs.
FORNARA, NICOLETTA +2 more
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International Journal of STEM Education, 2022 Background Many institutional and departmentally focused change efforts have sought to improve teaching in STEM through the promotion of evidence-based instructional practices (EBIPs).
Jacob D. McAlpin +11 more
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