This conceptual paper suggests how Politeness Theory [6] – well known in anthropological and linguistic literatures – can contribute to the study of role relations in computer...
The study investigates the role of ICT in facilitating democracy. The role of ICT in maintaining status quo, or structure of the society can be explained using structuration theor...
We study a sampling setup where a continuous-time signal is mapped by a memoryless, invertible and nonlinear transformation, and then sampled in a nonideal manner. Such scenarios a...
In a seminal paper, Lin and Reiter introduced a modeltheoretic definition for the progression of the initial knowledge base of a basic action theory. This definition comes with a ...
Computation plays a major role in decision making. Even if an agent is willing to ascribe a probability to all states and a utility to all outcomes, and maximize expected utility,...