Future Aims of the Collective Agreement

Collective-agreement-based pruning of ensembles

The main idea of ensemble methodology is to weigh several individual pattern classifiers, and combine them to reach a better classification performance. Nevertheless, some ensembles superfluously contain too many members, which results in large storage requirements and in some cases it may even reduce classification performance. The goal of ensemble pruning is to identify a subset of ensemble m...

The Grievance Procedure: The Heart of the Collective Agreement

Harvesting Collective Agreement in Community Oriented Surveys: The Medical Case

The chapter discusses the role of simple and lightweight Web-based systems in promoting a different approach to the externalization of practice-related knowledge within communities of professionals. This approach exploits common online questionnaire systems to collect the preferences of large numbers of domain experts to interesting paradigmatic work cases and proposes a statistically sound eva...

Absenteeism and the Collective Bargaining Agreement: An Empirical Test

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Accepting Collective Responsibility for the Future

Existing institutions do not seem well-designed to address paradigmatically global, intergenerational and ecological problems, such as climate change. 1 In particular, they tend to crowd out intergenerational concern, and thereby facilitate a “tyranny of the contemporary” in which successive generations exploit the future to their own advantage in morally indefensible ways (albeit perhaps unint...