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On the Utilization of Social Animals as a Model for Social Robotics [PDF]
Social robotics is a thriving field in building artificial agents. The possibility to construct agents that can engage in meaningful social interaction with humans presents new challenges for engineers. In general, social robotics has been inspired primarily by psychologists with the aim of building human-like robots.
Miklósi, Ádám, Gácsi, Márta
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Fairness requires deliberation: The primacy of economic over social considerations
While both economic and social considerations of fairness and equity play an important role in financial decision-making, it is not clear which of these two motives is more primal and immediate and which one is secondary and slow.
Guy eHochman +3 more
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This study arrives at a representation for ‘utility from decision making’ that is robust to modeling of any of ‘social interactions’, ‘economic activities’, or with social interactions interwoven with economic activities, modeling of ‘socioeconomic ...
Oghenovo A. Obrimah
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Summary: This study answers an important policy question related to energy efficiency transition tendencies and the role that control of corruption and regulatory quality can play, using the Stochastic Frontier and Panel Markov-Switching techniques with ...
Charity Dzifa Akorli, Philip Kofi Adom
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Utilitarianism with and without expected utility [PDF]
We give two social aggregation theorems under conditions of risk, one for constant population cases, the other an extension to variable populations. Intra and interpersonal welfare comparisons are encoded in a single ‘individual preorder’.
McCarthy, David +2 more
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The present work is the result of a research carried out in the stage of High School education, in the area of Humanities and Social Sciences. The data show that, at this stage, in which High School students begin to decide on a study modality that ...
Mario Corrales Serrano +3 more
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Utility Manning: Young Filipino Men, Servitude and the Moral Economy of Becoming a Seafarer and Attaining Adulthood [PDF]
To get a job as a seafarer in the global maritime industry, thousands of male Filipino youths work for free as ‘utility men’ for manning agencies that supply seafarers to ship operators around the world.
Galam, Roderick G.
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The purpose of the current resarch was to compare adolescents’ stereotypes of homosexuality and heterosexuality from Beauvois’s theory of social value (1995 ; Dubois, 2005).
Caroline Desombre +3 more
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Maximizing Utility Among Selfish Users in Social Groups
We consider the problem of a social group of users trying to obtain a "universe" of files, first from a server and then via exchange amongst themselves. We consider the selfish file-exchange paradigm of give-and-take, whereby two users can exchange files
Bagaria, Vivek Kumar +2 more
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Decentralized trade, random utility and the evolution of social welfare [PDF]
We study decentralized trade processes in general exchange economies and house allocation problems with and without money. The processes are subject to persistent random shocks stemming from agents' maximization of random utility.
Kandori, Michihiro +2 more
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