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TCDE Chair Candidate Erich Neuhold

Erich J. Neuhold is currently Honorary (Adjunct) Professor for Computer Science at the University of Vienna and associated with the Fakultaet fuer Informatik. Here he is involved with structured and unstructured multimedia Databases and Web-Information Systems and questions of Semantic enrichment for effective Information Interoperability and Mining. He is also investigating issues of interoper...

First Prize Erich

ing from detail, it is instructive to consider what would happen in a perfectly flexible economy, if schooling actually displayed stagnant productivity while all other sectors faced a constant positive rate of productivity growth. The outcome would be what Baumol (1967) has called the cost disease of services. With a functioning labour market, the wages of workers in the stagnantproductivity se...

Consequences of nonconformist behaviors in a continuous opinion model

We investigate opinion formation in a kinetic exchange opinion model, where opinions are represented by numbers in the real interval [−1, 1] and agents are typified by the individual degree of conviction about the opinion that they support. Opinions evolve through pairwise interactions governed by competitive positive and negative couplings, that promote imitation and dissent, respectively. The...

What (and Where) Is the Ethical Code Concerning Researcher Conflict of Interest?

Decision makers are expected to identify and perhaps recuse themselves from actions that affect entities (such as relatives or corporations) to which their relationships create an appearance of conflict of interest. This article illustrates relationships that can create conflicts of interest for editors, grant decision makers, journal and grant reviewers, expert witnesses, and also for many res...