This paper concerns the helping behavior in multi-agent systems. Helping actions represent an interesting and rich testbed for examining the reasons for cooperative behavior in multiagent systems. Starting from previous studies on multi-agent dependence relations, a basic definition of help

(QCA). ABSTRACT: Several studies indicate that mood can influence the likelihood of an individual demonstrating instances of helping behavior, and one previous laboratory study has indicated that music can be used to bring about manipulations of mood to such an end. To investigate this in a

of algorithms based on clustering capable of an-alyzing this behavior. We then demonstrate an application of this technology to automatically determine where to simulate for a program to help guide computer architecture research. 1.

A study was conducted to determine the frequency Of three types of prosocial interactions--empathi, helping, and altruism--which nonhandicapped pteschool children could exhibit toward their haddicapped peers. Subjects were 32 nonhandicapped 4- to 5-year-olds and 13 deVelopmentally'disabled 3

philosophy in the past ten years has examined the implications of empirical results in social psychology for the existence and nature of character traits. Gilbert Harman and John Doris in particular have argued that these results give us good reason to reject the existence of character traits as traditionally understood, while philosophers sympathetic to Aristote-lian notions of character and virtue have attempted to carve out an important explanatory role for them to play in the lives of at least some human beings.1 Given the extensive array of traditional character traits and the thousands of experiments in social psychology which could potentially bear on their exist-ence, it is not surprising that, in order to focus the discussion, both sides have largely examined only one such trait, namely compassion. In a number of recent papers, I have begun to develop a new theory of character which is conceptually distinct both from traditional Aristotelian accounts as well as from the positive view of “local ” traits outlined by Doris.2 On my view, many human beings do have robust traits of character which

theoretical perspective, the present study investigated the relationships between children's reading ability, children's sex, mothers ' educational level, and mothers ' helping behaviors during children's at-home oral reading practice. Seventy-six mother-child pairs from a suburban

for their own or for the group activity, given partial information. This representation is compact, and thus makes reasoning about helpful behavior tractable. The paper presents a decision-theoretic mechanism that uses this representation

motivated work behavior to develop; (b) the characteristics of jobs that can create these psychological states; and (c) the attributes of individuals that determine how positively a person will respond to a complex and challenging job. The model was tested for 658 employees who work on 62 different jobs

Inspired by empirical studies of networked systems such as the Internet, social networks, and biological networks, researchers have in recent years developed a variety of techniques and models to help us understand or predict the behavior of these systems. Here we review developments in this field

Energy-aware design and evaluation of network protocols requires knowledge of the energy consumption behavior of actual wireless interfaces. But little practical information is available about the energy consumption behavior of well-known wireless network interfaces and device specifications do