Although both betweenness and closeness centrality are claimed to be important for the effectiveness of someone’s network position, it has not been explicitly studied which networks emerge if actors follow incentives for these two positional advantages. We propose such a model and observe that network dynamics differ considerably in a scenario with either betweenness or closeness incentives com...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Researchers have long argued that a ‘right’ degree of closeness among team members is necessary for innovation. At unhealthy extremes, while closeness leads to cloning and copycat attitude, increased distance can result in incompatibility and dissonance. Hence, actually building teams that possess ‘creative-tension’ is easier said than done. This paper develops specific factor...

Probabilistic graphical models allow us to encode a large probability distribution as composition of smaller ones. It is oftentimes the case that we are interested in incorporating model idea some these distributions likely be similar one another. In this paper provide an information geometric approach on how incorporate and see it allows reinterpret already existing models. Our proposal relies...

Time is an essential concept in cultural heritage applications. Instances of temporal concepts such as time intervals are used for the annotation of cultural objects and also for querying datasets containing information about these objects. Hence it is important to match query and annotation intervals by examining their similarity or closeness. One of the problems is that in many cases time int...

Religion is often understood to play a positive role in shaping moral attitudes among believers. We assessed the relationship between church members’ levels of felt connectedness their respective congregations and perceived similarity personal congregational values, whether there was these amount time spent synchronous movement or singing during worship. The importance (the assigned different i...

A successful application of Artificial Immune Systems to the problem of recommending films to new users of a film database is used as the inspiration for an attempt to apply similar techniques to the problem of recommending web sites. Similarities and differences in the two situations are discussed as well as other approaches to recommendation problems such as collaborative filtering. The parti...

The relationship between a reeexive and its antecedent is characterized by (a) a locality condition, and (b) a syntactic prominence condition. In Chomsky (1981) locality is deened in terms of governing category, and syntactic prominence is via c-command. In this article I show that, to account for the long-distance binding properties of complex reeexive ta-zijì3s-slef' in Chinese, which cast do...

Closeness is a widely-used centrality measure in social network analysis. For a node it indicates the inverse average shortest-path distance to the other nodes of the network. While the identification of the k nodes with highest closeness received significant attention, many applications are actually interested in finding a group of nodes that is central as a whole. For this problem, only recen...

Protein complexes are of great importance in understanding the principles of cellular organization and function. The increase in available protein-protein interaction data, gene ontology and other resources make it possible to develop computational methods for protein complex prediction. Most existing methods focus mainly on the topological structure of protein-protein interaction networks, and...