Nighttime light data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Day/Night Band (DNB) provides a unique data source for mapping and monitoring urban areas at regional and global scales. This study proposes an object similarity-based thresholding method using VIIRS DNB data to map urban areas. The threshold for a target potential urban object was determined by comparing its simila...

In social groups where relatedness among interacting individuals is low, cooperation can often only be maintained through mechanisms that repress competition among group members. Repression-of-competition mechanisms, such as policing and punishment, seem to be of particular importance in human societies, where cooperative interactions often occur among unrelated individuals. In line with this v...

Economic crimes such as money laundering, terrorism financing, tax evasion or corruption almost invariably involve the use of a corporate entity. Such entities are regularly incorporated and managed by services providers (CSPs). Given this potential for enabling economic crime, CSP industry in Netherlands is heavily regulated CSPs require license to operate. Operating without licence illegal. I...

recommender systems utilize information retrieval and machine learning techniques for filtering information and can predict whether a user would like an unseen item. user similarity measurement plays an important role in collaborative filtering based recommender systems. in order to improve accuracy of traditional user based collaborative filtering techniques under new user cold-start problem a...