The internationalization of the Libyan crisis and its accompanying militarization conflict have played a vital role in hindering to reach comprehensive political settlement solution Libya. increasing international greediness energy resources geopolitical importance State led involvement many regional powers this transformed into “proxy war”. Moreover, Turkish direct military intervention is con...

The choice to conserve or be greedy in a commons dilemma may be influenced by the behavior of others and by pro-environmental values. Participants completed a measure of pro-environmental values one week before taking part in an Internet-based commons dilemma microworld consisting of a shared fishery with three computer-controlled virtual fishers whom participants believed to be real people. Th...

Clusters of computers have emerged as cost-effective parallel and/or distributed computing systems for computationally intensive tasks. Normally, clusters are composed of high performance computational nodes linked together by low-latency/high-bandwidth interconnection networks. With the advent of modern optical networking technologies, geographically distant clusters can be federated to yield ...

We study the role of privacy in the market for mobile applications. For such programs used with smartphones and tablet PCs a very important market has emerged. Yet, neither the role of privacy on that market is well understood, nor do we have empirical evidence regarding its role therein. We exploit data on 300,000 mobile applications and almost 600 “applications-pairs” to analyze both sides of...

A coin set is a strictly increasing list of positive integers that always begins with 1. A coin set is called greedy when the simple greedy change-making algorithm always produces the fewest number of coins in change. Here, the greedy changemaking algorithm repeatedly selects the largest denomination coin less than the remaining amount until it has assembled the correct change. Pearson has prov...

Delay Tolerant Networks (DTNs) are a sub-class of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs). They are mobile wireless networks that feature inherent connection disruption. In particular such networks are generally non-connected. In this paper we focus on defining a broadcast service which operate on DTNs. A number of protocols solving the problem of broadcasting across DTNs have been proposed in the past...

The relevance vector machine (RVM) (Tipping, 2001) encapsulates a sparse probabilistic model for machine learning tasks. Like support vector machines, use of the kernel trick allows modelling in high dimensional feature spaces to be achieved at low computational cost. However, sparsity is controlled not just by the automatic relevance determination (ARD) prior but also by the choice of basis fu...

New algorithm for partitional data clustering is presented, Neural Society for Clustering (NSC). Its creation was inspired by hierarchical image understanding, which requires unsupervised training to build the hierarchy of visual features. Existing clustering algorithms are not well-suited for this task, since they usually split natural groups of patterns into several parts (like k-means) or gi...

Abstract Investors usually resort to financial advisors improve their investment process until the point of complete delegation on decisions. Surely, advice is potentially a correcting factor in decisions but, past, media and regulators blamed biased for manipulating expectations naive investors. In order give an analytic formulation problem, we present Agent-Based Model formed by individual in...

The assessment and implementation of development projects has been disconnected from relevant concepts in social psychology, especially those relating to understanding the interactions between local communities. This disconnection given rise prevalence several fallacies about human behaviour amongst project staff, decision makers environmental impact practitioners. playing-out these influences ...