Organized and transnational organized crime has become a prominent political issue in Canada, as elsewhere. The topic is understudied in Canadian political science, in part because of the inherent difficulties of research. The paper begins a reflection on the politics of organized and transnational organized crime in Canada. How has the Canadian government responded to the threat of organized a...

A design pattern is a grouping of a small number of objects that is likely to be useful again and again. In multi-threaded software, it is a grouping of active and passive objects. A pattern language is a system of patterns organized in a structure that guides their application. This paper proposes a pattern language intended to capture the best practices in the architectural design of multi-th...

Multi-Level Multi-Decision Models for Automatic Speech Recognition is discussed. It is hierarchically organized. Here there are not used the generative grammars for model speech signal synthesis as a feedback in speech recognition process. Instead of the latter significant decisions, but under simplified conditions, at all levels of a speech signal processing hierarchy are introduced. The 3-lev...

MENS is a bio-inspired model for higher level cognitive systems; it is an application of the Memory Evolutive Systems developed with J.-P. Vanbremeersch [12], to model complex multi-scale, multi-agent self-organized systems, such as biological or social systems. Its development resorts from an info-computationalism: first we characterize the properties of the human brain/mind at the origin of h...