The objective function is composed of analytic formulae for a concept's agency cost and user level of service.
To explain this finding we developed and tested a theory of role quality based on the concept of agency by drawing on Giddens' theory of structuration and Doyal and Gough's theory of human needs.
In response, Clarke argues that if Leibniz is right then a free agent would be merely passive because determined to do what reason presents, but a "passive agent" is a contradiction since the concept of agency includes the concept of activity.
Anindya studies the concept of agency, and how disadvantaged students navigate obstacles to beat the odds against them.
Kertzer and Fricke (35) take a cultural approach to demographic behavior, arguing that from an anthropological perspective, the concept of agency must be given more prominence.
Ocean routing is one of four concepts the agency is considering for its Metropolitan Airspace Redesign Project, the most complex reconfiguration ever undertaken by the agency.
An article in the Economist argues that the proliferation of robots, now in heavy use by the military and increasingly by civilians, demands that we reconsider long-held concepts of agency and autonomy in order to develop a "machine ethics".
Yet language that would have been fully adequate to describe the ages before the appearance of the first artifact would have had to be enlarged by concepts like agency and intention, words like creation, that would query the great universe itself.
Without an adequate understanding of this concept, humanitarian agencies will not truly understand the security risks they face.
More than the abstract concepts of agency and structure, these models of desire and capacity provide concrete tools for a nuanced empirical analysis on different experiences of transnationalism, mobility and return.
