Support Vector Machines (SVM) have become a widespread method in machine learning applications. In this paper we studied the one-class SVM method, whose goal is to describe the data from a single class by a set of support vectors. One-class SVMs can be used to construct multiple classifier systems (MCS) utilising the individual one-class data descriptions together with strategies to combine the...

Abstract game theory originated in the analysis of games of pure conflict. By 1958, however, Schelling set out to “enlarge the scope of game theory, taking the zero-sum game to be the limiting case rather than a point of departure”. The other limiting case, in his view, was the coordination game. Classification according to the degree of conflict quickly became standard procedure. In 1966 Anato...

OBJECTIVE Heavy alcohol use increases dramatically at age 14, and there is emerging cross-sectional evidence that when girls experience family conflict at younger ages (11-13 years) the risk of alcohol use and misuse is high. This study evaluated the role of family conflict and subsequent depressed mood in predicting heavy alcohol use among adolescent girls. METHOD This was a three-wave longi...