Classifying for Social Diversity

Human Races: Classifying People vs Understanding Diversity

The idea that all humans naturally belong to one of a few biological types or races that evolved in isolation was unchallenged for centuries, but large-scale modern studies failed to associate racial labels with recognizable genetic clusters. Recently, the conclusions of those studies have been questioned by authors who argue that racial classification has objective scientific bases and is indi...

Classifying Organizational Roles Using Email Social Networks

Classifying social roles by network structures

Network Analysis is employed as methodological approach to classify social roles. With this aim, we measure sociometric status by the direct observation of pre-school children behaviours. The data have been collected by a longitudinal observational study. We follow the children in seven waves for two months. In this study, we measure relational skills of subjects applying three procedures. Name...

Dynamics of Social Diversity

We introduce and solve analytically a model for the development of disparate social classes in a competitive population. Individuals advance their fitness by competing against those in lower classes, and in parallel, individuals decline due to inactivity. We find a phase transition from a homogeneous, single-class society to a hierarchical, multi-class society. In the former case, the populatio...

Two New Methods of Boundary Correction for Classifying Textural Images

With the growth of technology, supervising systems are increasingly replacing humans in military, transportation, medical, spatial, and other industries. Among these systems are machine vision systems which are based on image processing and analysis. One of the important tasks of image processing is classification of images into desirable categories for the identification of objects or their sp...