This open access book develops a conceptual framework to glocal governance and provides an overview over the concepts of glocality glocalism.

Personal experience is intrinsically local while common knowledge is global. As a consequence, standard multimedia search engines suffer from a gap between local content and global concept, due to the diversity of context. Here we design a new multimedia retrieval system which integrates local diversity into an evolving global knowledge. A suitable personalization of global ontologies allows to...

The idea of the paper moves from the consideration of autonomous agents and global flows eventually converging by means of autopoietic systems. This work reframes the topic of the reconfiguration in the evolving social scenarios within Pitasi’s concept of HYPERCITIZENSHIP, sketched out by designing a muldimensional and multipolar convergence among different kinds of citizenship. With its four c...

BACKGROUND A hierarchy, characterized by tree-like relationships, is a natural method of organizing data in various domains. When considering an unsupervised machine learning routine, such as clustering, a bottom-up hierarchical (BU, agglomerative) algorithm is used as a default and is often the only method applied. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We show that hierarchical clustering that invo...