Social computing
... things, cognitive or reactive agents who interact in dynamic environments where they possibly depend on each other to achieve their goals. ● The emphasis is nowadays on constructing complex computational systems composed by agents which are regulated by various types of norms, and behave like human ...
... things, cognitive or reactive agents who interact in dynamic environments where they possibly depend on each other to achieve their goals. ● The emphasis is nowadays on constructing complex computational systems composed by agents which are regulated by various types of norms, and behave like human ...
6 CBNormTheory.
... brought to bear by those who favor one point of view, while social support is influence from those who support the other point of view, defined similarly as: ...
... brought to bear by those who favor one point of view, while social support is influence from those who support the other point of view, defined similarly as: ...
List of all Workshops
... The positional approach is a recent methodological innovation intended to narrow the gap between substantive theory and mathematical analysis of social networks. By breaking down current methods into meaningful and manageable decision steps it explicates hitherto tacit assumptions, suggests means to ...
... The positional approach is a recent methodological innovation intended to narrow the gap between substantive theory and mathematical analysis of social networks. By breaking down current methods into meaningful and manageable decision steps it explicates hitherto tacit assumptions, suggests means to ...
Therapists as Agents of Social Change
... • Alternative Setting: settings that are designed to, and are often in opposition to, mainstream or traditional settings • Ameliorative: an approach to intervention that focuses on improvement rather than fundamental change of underlying assumptions, values and power structures, also known as first- ...
... • Alternative Setting: settings that are designed to, and are often in opposition to, mainstream or traditional settings • Ameliorative: an approach to intervention that focuses on improvement rather than fundamental change of underlying assumptions, values and power structures, also known as first- ...
THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF INDUSTRIAL NETWORKS
... Cova and Crespin-Mazet (1996, 207) and Heiskala (1995, 156-157) connect social constructionism with the realist assertion of social structures that exist independently^. However, both Cova and Crespin-Mazet and Heiskala also recognize that in Berger and Luckmann's thinking, "reality" is not perceive ...
... Cova and Crespin-Mazet (1996, 207) and Heiskala (1995, 156-157) connect social constructionism with the realist assertion of social structures that exist independently^. However, both Cova and Crespin-Mazet and Heiskala also recognize that in Berger and Luckmann's thinking, "reality" is not perceive ...
Measurement of social capital in the UK
... We are also in the process of investigating the nature of the social capital of young people. Earlier work highlighted that this age group had surprisingly low levels when measured on the same indices as used for all adults. In the course of the analysis the question arose whether this difference wa ...
... We are also in the process of investigating the nature of the social capital of young people. Earlier work highlighted that this age group had surprisingly low levels when measured on the same indices as used for all adults. In the course of the analysis the question arose whether this difference wa ...
Supplementary Material Source code
... We only present results that are common to all of the tested rules and networks, but with an infinite number of possible interactions, which ones should be selected? Based on empirical observations, we required all tested rules to obey three important constraints. #1: The probabilities of an individ ...
... We only present results that are common to all of the tested rules and networks, but with an infinite number of possible interactions, which ones should be selected? Based on empirical observations, we required all tested rules to obey three important constraints. #1: The probabilities of an individ ...
Topics in the Philosophy of Social Science
... Asserting facts about higher-level processes requires that we give an account of the “microfoundations” through which these processes come about. I.e.: the circumstances of socially situated individuals who then behave so as to bring about the observed outcome. ...
... Asserting facts about higher-level processes requires that we give an account of the “microfoundations” through which these processes come about. I.e.: the circumstances of socially situated individuals who then behave so as to bring about the observed outcome. ...
Unit #2 – Social Change
... (think apple). Using this approach sociologists believed that as societies decayed (became more interested in material items) they would become less spiritual and less able to provide for and protect their citizens. 2. Cycles of Growth and Decay – somewhat more positive, this approach took from the ...
... (think apple). Using this approach sociologists believed that as societies decayed (became more interested in material items) they would become less spiritual and less able to provide for and protect their citizens. 2. Cycles of Growth and Decay – somewhat more positive, this approach took from the ...
Large-scale structural organization of social networks
... In Fig. 2共b兲, we display the average number of steps needed for randomly chosen strangers to find a common acquaintance, given that it exists. In contrast to Fig. 2共a兲, the number of steps increases sharply as the randomness of the network is made larger, which means that it is extremely difficult t ...
... In Fig. 2共b兲, we display the average number of steps needed for randomly chosen strangers to find a common acquaintance, given that it exists. In contrast to Fig. 2共a兲, the number of steps increases sharply as the randomness of the network is made larger, which means that it is extremely difficult t ...
Formal network methods in history
... and measures that tend to be associated, because of often implicit reflexes of interpretation, to a certain view of the social word. Caution is especially needed against strategic over-interpretations of network patterns, the kind of interpretation that more or less assumes that actors are perfectly ...
... and measures that tend to be associated, because of often implicit reflexes of interpretation, to a certain view of the social word. Caution is especially needed against strategic over-interpretations of network patterns, the kind of interpretation that more or less assumes that actors are perfectly ...
Community Informatics
... accomplish. A current guest to a historical center may not just see an item in an altogether different setting from that which the craftsman expected, yet might be not able comprehend critical parts of the work. The legitimate experience might be difficult to recover. Background Most humans live in ...
... accomplish. A current guest to a historical center may not just see an item in an altogether different setting from that which the craftsman expected, yet might be not able comprehend critical parts of the work. The legitimate experience might be difficult to recover. Background Most humans live in ...
What is linguistic anthropology,
... understanding of the populations he encountered? • What do the ethical problems which Innes and Manelis Klein describe have in common with each other? How are they different? What role does cultural relativity play in their decisions? ...
... understanding of the populations he encountered? • What do the ethical problems which Innes and Manelis Klein describe have in common with each other? How are they different? What role does cultural relativity play in their decisions? ...
Social Network Analysis
... • Important or prominent actors are those that are linked or involved with other actors extensively. • A person with extensive contacts (links) or communications with many other people in the organization is considered more important than a person with relatively fewer contacts. • The links can also ...
... • Important or prominent actors are those that are linked or involved with other actors extensively. • A person with extensive contacts (links) or communications with many other people in the organization is considered more important than a person with relatively fewer contacts. • The links can also ...
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... 27 (2-3): 123-151 APR-SEP 2003 ...
... 27 (2-3): 123-151 APR-SEP 2003 ...
Can Cultural Worldviews Influence Network
... and Goodwin 1994). Identities and meaningful narratives are assumed to be the product of these enacted control projects rather than the cause. Although both DiMaggio’s (1993) and White’s (1992) arguments are concerned with network structure, the same considerations apply to research on network compo ...
... and Goodwin 1994). Identities and meaningful narratives are assumed to be the product of these enacted control projects rather than the cause. Although both DiMaggio’s (1993) and White’s (1992) arguments are concerned with network structure, the same considerations apply to research on network compo ...
Stories and Social Networks Warren Sack
... of social network theory13 and actor-network theory14 provide technologies akin to co-citation analysis, but have their own particular strengths and weaknesses. These sorts of sociological “story understanding” technologies are very different from the story understanding technologies of an older, sy ...
... of social network theory13 and actor-network theory14 provide technologies akin to co-citation analysis, but have their own particular strengths and weaknesses. These sorts of sociological “story understanding” technologies are very different from the story understanding technologies of an older, sy ...
History, grade 112016/2017A.S. Unit One: Culture and Social
... 2) Sociological imagination helps people view their lives within a larger social and historical context and gain insight into how the social environment shapes them and vice versa. 3) Sociologists study the human social behavior from a group perspective. They focus on the group rather than on the in ...
... 2) Sociological imagination helps people view their lives within a larger social and historical context and gain insight into how the social environment shapes them and vice versa. 3) Sociologists study the human social behavior from a group perspective. They focus on the group rather than on the in ...
Graduiertenkolleg Adaptivity in Hybrid Cognitive Systems Artificial
... system of equations. For theories that can be represented by a finite set of equations, neural networks can be used, in order to learn representations of models of these equations: the neural networks that are used in this approach are mapping symbols of a logical theory into a representation space, ...
... system of equations. For theories that can be represented by a finite set of equations, neural networks can be used, in order to learn representations of models of these equations: the neural networks that are used in this approach are mapping symbols of a logical theory into a representation space, ...
Chapter 4. Discussion and Conclusions
... regularities ...”1 Indeed both they and Dreyfus refer to just such a problem with one particular network. In the early days of connectionism (i.e. perceptrons in the mid-1960’s) the U.S. army attempted to train a network to distinguish a forest with tanks from one without. They used photographs of t ...
... regularities ...”1 Indeed both they and Dreyfus refer to just such a problem with one particular network. In the early days of connectionism (i.e. perceptrons in the mid-1960’s) the U.S. army attempted to train a network to distinguish a forest with tanks from one without. They used photographs of t ...
ISSN 0340-5443, Volume 64, Number 10
... associations that sometimes lasted over 420 days. However, the majority of dyads (i.e., 85%) remained together for shorter periods of time, typically less than 100 days. Vonhof et al. also found that all members of a social group rarely occupied the same roost at the same time, and that individuals ...
... associations that sometimes lasted over 420 days. However, the majority of dyads (i.e., 85%) remained together for shorter periods of time, typically less than 100 days. Vonhof et al. also found that all members of a social group rarely occupied the same roost at the same time, and that individuals ...
Guide to Social Networks - Kellogg School of Management
... modular response networks address problems and opportunities by identifying the individual components of a problem and coordinating expertise to address each one. Financial transactions, for example, though unique to a given customer, typically require consistent kinds of expertise packaged to addre ...
... modular response networks address problems and opportunities by identifying the individual components of a problem and coordinating expertise to address each one. Financial transactions, for example, though unique to a given customer, typically require consistent kinds of expertise packaged to addre ...
Finding community structure in very large networks
... More recently a number of faster algorithms have been proposed [31–33]. In [32], one of us proposed an algorithm based on the greedy optimization of the quantity known as modularity [21]. This method appears to work well both in contrived test cases and in real-world situations, and is substantially ...
... More recently a number of faster algorithms have been proposed [31–33]. In [32], one of us proposed an algorithm based on the greedy optimization of the quantity known as modularity [21]. This method appears to work well both in contrived test cases and in real-world situations, and is substantially ...
Lecture Slide - AI-Econ
... • MI does not reduce the study of society to the study of purely subjective opinions • According to MI, the social world is not the product of a particular mind, but rather the largely unintentional consequence of intersubjectively shared meanings (collective opinions) • Shared meanings create a sta ...
... • MI does not reduce the study of society to the study of purely subjective opinions • According to MI, the social world is not the product of a particular mind, but rather the largely unintentional consequence of intersubjectively shared meanings (collective opinions) • Shared meanings create a sta ...