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Spreading Disease Modeling Using Markov Random Fields
Markov random fields are widely used to model spatial processes. Key components of any statistical analysis using such models are the choice of an...
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Graphical Representation of Multidimensional Poverty: Insights for Index Construction and Policy Making
By means of probabilistic graphical models, in this paper, we present a new framework for exploring relationships among indicators commonly included...
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Early warning signals from the periphery
Studies on the possibility of predicting critical transitions with statistical methods known as early warning signals (EWS) are often conducted on...
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Simulating Echo Chamber and Polarization Problems in Social Media
One way to understand such formation is by using opinion dynamics model. Most opinion dynamics models are based in the interaction between two...
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A normative approach to radicalization in social networks
In recent decades, the massification of online social connections has made information globally accessible in a matter of seconds. Unfortunately,...
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Agent-based modeling for migration and modern slavery research: a systematic review
This systematic review aims to synthesize how agent-based modeling (ABM) has been used in migration and modern slavery research and provide the basis...
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Fakers becoming believers: how opinion dynamics are shaped by preference falsification, impression management and coherence heuristics
In the vast and rich literature on opinion dynamics, the role of preference falsification has generally been dismissed. Following the lead of Timur...
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Cognitive perspectives on opinion dynamics: the role of knowledge in consensus formation, opinion divergence, and group polarization
Two phenomena that are central to simulation research on opinion dynamics are opinion divergence—the result that individuals interacting in a group...
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Prepaid or Postpaid? That Is the Question: Novel Methods of Subscription Type Prediction in Mobile Phone Services
In this paper, we investigate the behavioural differences between mobile phone customers with prepaid and postpaid subscriptions. Our study reveals...
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Theoretical framework
The theoretical framework presented in this chapter both suits the research interest and corresponds to findings from my empirical research. After...
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The New Agent-Based Paradigm in Economics
The concept of evolutionary economics offers a suited theoretical framework to study innovation and to understand and analyse the complex dynamics of...
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Decision-Making in Agent-Based Models of Migration: State of the Art and Challenges
We review agent-based models (ABM) of human migration with respect to their decision-making rules. The most prominent behavioural theories used as...
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Categorical network models for systemic risk measurement
A very important area of financial risk management is systemic risk modelling, which concerns the estimation of the interrelationships between...
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Hochschulpräsident(inn)en
Globale Veränderungen im Hochschulwesen haben Auswirkungen auf die Hochschulführung. Der zunehmende Wettbewerb und wirtschaftliche Druck, die...
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Crisis in the Pharmaceutical Industry and the Promise of New Biology
When Tadataka Yamada arrived at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) as the new CEO, following the merger of SmithKline Beecham and Glaxo Wellcome in 1999, he found...
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Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model
Cultural transmission models are coming to the fore in explaining increases in the Paleolithic toolkit richness and diversity. During the later...
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Neoliberal Narratives: Migrant Self-Constructions and the Performance of Empowered Subjectivities
In Aravind Adiga’s Booker prize-winning novel The White Tiger, the aspi-rational protagonist describes the poor Indian village from which he...
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Egalitarianism in the rank aggregation problem: a new dimension for democracy
Winner selection by majority, in elections between two candidates, is the only rule compatible with democratic principles. Instead, when candidates...
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Theorising and Researching the Youth Crime Nexus: Habitus, Reflexivity and the Political Ecology of Social Practices
In the discussion that follows, I will explain how and why, in a research project on young people’s pathways into and out of crime, we applied...
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Global Social Policy Actors and Health Care System Ideas
Health is a significant global issue, and has become even more so in the past few decades owing to manifold globalisation processes. People all over...