Autumn Books: An unequal partnership

Books, books, books.

IAPR Fellow, shares a personal sketch of his career in statistical pattern recognition. At the end, he poses questions to entice further research. Chart of some upcoming IAPR and non-IAPR workshops, conferences, and summer schools of interest to the I APR community. The views expressed in this newsletter represent the personal views of the authors and not necessarily those of their host institu...

Globalization and disease: in an unequal world, unequal health!

In this paper, originally presented at an event held by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the United States, the author analyzes the repercussions of globalization on various health aspects: the spread of infectious and parasitic diseases, bioterrorism, and new behavioral patterns in health, among others. He goes on to examine the positive and negative effects of international agreemen...

Virus pathogens suggest an autumn return.

Health in an unequal world

Dynamics in an Evolving Partnership

Repeat players’ ability to cooperate in equilibrium depends on how long they expect their relationship to last (“stability”), which itself may change over time. This paper develops a theory of endogenous stability and dynamic performance in partnerships with evolving payoffs, in the context of a simple repeated Prisoners’ Dilemma with voluntary entry and exit. More stable partnerships are more ...