In the article it is analyzed process of criminalization Lebanese clans arrived in Germany early 1980s. It noted that was caused by a number reasons, including marginal situation immigrants, lack attention authorities to integration problems, specifics mentality, etc. Starting with petit thefts and street drug trafficking, gradually began create their own economic structures, which included bot...

In this paper we present an application of the dynamic tracking games framework to 1 a monetary union. We use a small stylized nonlinear three-country macroeconomic model of a 2 monetary union to analyse the interactions between fiscal (governments) and monetary (common 3 central bank) policy makers, assuming different objective functions of these decision makers. Using 4 the OPTGAME algorithm ...

As a story unfolds, it constructs a depiction of events, and at the same time, it also builds conceptual structure at a higher, interpretive level. This higher-level structure provides the terms for understanding the unfolding story, indicating what kinds of features and consequences characterize it – a story ontology. The process by which a tale constructs a story ontology is not straightforwa...

Films and television shows provide a rich source of cultural data and form an integral part of modern life. However, the video medium remains difficult to analyze at scale effectively and its study has generally attracted limited research attention. We propose a method of summarizing the audio and visual aspects of entertainment videos, through the automatic extraction of dominant colors from v...