[PDF] Top 20 MoL 2014 18: Actions in Social Choice

... of actions at ...compare actions in a pairwise manner regardless of what other actions are possible, in line with consistent comparison of two arbitrary ... See full document

... Thus, we have seen how the aspect of circumstances in production af- fects interpretation and eventually influences the theory of meaning. It is natural to hypothesize that the other aspect in production, i.e., purposes, ... See full document

... talented social researcher working for the Dutch Minister for Social Affairs and ...relevant social research, and inform the General Secretary about ...that social researchers write, so ... See full document

... On the other hand, as we saw in the second chapter, circumstances, ob- jects, manifestative actions, bodily manifestations and content are constitu- tive of emotional experiences. However, they all differ ... See full document

... in 18 primary urban Band 1 and 18 post primary schools participating in ...devising actions plans, to assess the quality of the action plans, and to evaluate the impact of the ...and Social ... See full document

... Our basic update is the action whereupon every agent in the network incorpo- rates the information of her neighbors. We will refer to this update as “all-read” update, and denote the corresponding dynamic modality by ... See full document

... Monkeys are also capable of learning from input when their actions do not necessarily result in a reward. Yang and Shadlen [16] performed an experiment where rhesus monkeys had to make a choice between two ... See full document

... With these observations in mind, we would like to end this thesis with some thoughts on the remarkable robustness of Arrow’s theorem. The same “dictatorial”-style impos- sibility results have emerged in many contexts and ... See full document

... I argued in the “as if”–rationality section that “It is easy to anthropomor- phize processes involving in natural selection; fish ‘choose’ to swim in a school instead of alone, because they ‘know’ that it makes it easier ... See full document

... Therefore, the notion of cooperation has received a lot of attention within various fields such as economics, political science, social sciences and game the- ory. One motivation for agents to cooperate can be ... See full document

... We begin by defining the Urn Model as an extensive form game with imperfect information and chance moves. In effect, the Urn Model describes a sequence of individual decisions made by rational agents, based on some ... See full document

... The proof below is based on ideas of flow networks from computer science. It was pointed out by van Emde Boas that this lemma can also be proven in a simpler way as a result of the Birkhoff-von Neumann Theorem ... See full document

... We performed an in-depth error analysis to provide gains of our MLRG model and some insights on the influence between users’ check-in behaviors and users’ friendship relations. By carefully investigating our Foursquare ... See full document

... For Davidson there are no other entities with a truth value except utterances, which sentences are abstractions over, as we shall discuss in chapter 4.14 It is therefore a natural idea t[r] ... See full document

... In the next section, 1.1, we lay out the properties that we would like to have in any extensible parsing method. Then in section 1.2 we turn our attention to Lisp, the quintessential extensible language. We discuss the ... See full document

... However, “the current First Lady of the United States” is a description and its semantic content is not the object denoted by it.1 By taking singular propositions as the semantic content[r] ... See full document

... It has long been recognized that much of our individual knowledge is dependent upon the knowledge of others, most notably because testimony provides agents with social evidence for their beliefs. In recent years, ... See full document

... evidence: 18 there might be multiple, mutually incompatible, yet equally ‘good’ ways of analyzing sentences into parts, agreeing on and accounting for all past, present and future evidence; different and ... See full document

... free choice permission is analyzed as a pragmatic inference that is based on reasoning about the beliefs of a competent speaker that observes the maxims of conversation in uttering ... See full document

... the social and political aspects of Indonesian ...on social life by many elements such as education, social and re- ligious activities and ...a social order depends on each and every member of ... See full document