For several major applications of data analysis, objects are often not represented as feature vectors in a vector space, but rather by a matrix gathering pairwise proximities. Such pairwise data often violates metricity and, therefore, cannot be naturally embedded in a vector space. Concerning the problem of unsupervised structure detection or clustering, in this paper, a new embedding method f...

This article based on an empirical study of Australian authors argues that, despite the OwnVoices movement gathering momentum in Australia, there are still barriers and limitations for from marginalised communities within publishing industry. is due to power imbalances spaces which silence writers, limiting availability their books teenage readers.

This paper reports "work in progress" on a project which I've titled, "The Spaces of Transnational Cultures". The aim of the project is to build on, but be methodologically different from, my earlier research on the architecture and urbanism of colonial and postcolonial cities in which the principal objective had been to demonstrate the inherently constitutive relationship between the political...

The work in progress described in this paper extends previous work on the construction and testing of virtual communications spaces for use in creating attractive Internet/Web-based environments for e-learning. The spaces created, or, more precisely, the underlying Internet/Webbased systems that support these spaces, are related to human factors via utility. Once again, the MCOTS ("massmarket c...