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The effect of social influence and curfews on civil violence

We investigate the policies of (1) restricting social influence and (2) imposing curfews upon int... more We investigate the policies of (1) restricting social influence and (2) imposing curfews upon interacting citizens in a community. We compare and contrast their effects on the social order and the emerging levels of civil violence. Influence models have been used in the past in the context of decision making in a variety of application domains. The policy of curfews has been utilised with the aim of curbing social violence but little research has been done on its effectiveness. We develop a multi-agent-based model that is used to simulate a community of citizens and the police force that guards it. We find that restricting social influence does indeed pacify rebellious societies, but has the opposite effect on peaceful ones. On the other hand, our simple model indicates that restricting mobility through curfews has a pacifying effect across all types of society.

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Issues in the convergence of control with communication and computing: proliferation, architecture, design, services, and middleware

We anticipate the next wave in the information technology revolution to be the convergence of con... more We anticipate the next wave in the information technology revolution to be the convergence of control, i.e., sensing and actuation, with communication and computing. We address the broad set of issues that we believe to be important to the design, implementation, and proliferation of such systems. In particular, we expound on the topics of the architecture of such systems, methodologies for design, distributed time, services, and middleware. We describe our efforts in the Convergence Lab at the University of Illinois with respect to each of these topics.

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Trends in real wages during the industrial revolution: a view from across the Irish Sea1

... It is derived using information from all the above sources and covers all items of expenditur... more

Between 'Conservative Revolution', aesthetic fundamentalism and new nationalism: Thomas Mann's early political writings

History of The Human Sciences, 1998

The author of &#39;Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen&#39; (1918) is usually regarded as o... more The author of &#39;Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen&#39; (1918) is usually regarded as one of the founding fathers of the so-called &#39;Conservative Revolution&#39;. But Thomas Mann&#39;s understanding of this concept does not at all coincide with the definition established by Armin Mohler, mainly in that it is not Nietzschean. Nor do the ties with the George circle furnish grounds for assigning Mann

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Farming strategies for a variable climate - A challenge

Tipos de sociedades en Colombia - 1

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