Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "coordination"
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Closest Conjunct Agreement in Head-Final Languages
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Gradualism in Coordination and Trust Building
(2012-08-17)Coordination and cooperation on public projects, as well as trust among society members are important for economic, social and political activities. This dissertation presents essays on the role of gradualism - increasing ... -
Incentive Design for Adaptive Agents
(International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2011)We consider a setting in which a principal seeks to induce an adaptive agent to select a target action by providing incentives on one or more actions. The agent maintains a belief about the value for each action—which may ... -
Lower-Limb Muscle Function Is Influenced by Changing Mechanical Demands in Cycling
(The Company of Biologists, 2020-12-29)Although cycling is often considered a seemingly simple, reciprocal task, muscles must adapt their function to satisfy changes in mechanical demands induced by higher crank torques and faster pedalling cadences. We examined ... -
Managing in the Face of Ambiguity and Uncertainty: The Problems of Interpretation and Coordination in Juvenile Justice Organizations
(2012-10-31)Drawing on field work at three different juvenile justice organizations, this dissertation explores the joint problems of interpretation and coordination in the face of problems marked by moral ambiguity and practical ... -
The psychology of coordination and common knowledge.
(American Psychological Association (APA), 2014)Research on human cooperation has concentrated on the puzzle of altruism, in which one actor incurs a cost to benefit another, and the psychology of reciprocity, which evolved to solve this problem. We examine the complementary ... -
Team Scaffolds: How Minimal Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination
(2013-10-08)In this dissertation, I integrate research on role-based coordination with concepts adapted from the team effectiveness literature to theorize how minimal team structures support effective coordination when people do not ... -
Theories of Coalitional Rationality
(Elsevier, 2009)This paper generalizes the concept of best response to coalitions of players and offers epistemic definitions of coalitional rationalizability in normal form games. The (best) response of a coalition is defined to be an ...