Multi-class problems have a richer structure than binary classification problems. Thus, they can potentially improve their performance by exploiting the relationship among class labels. While for the purposes of providing an automated classification result this class structure does not need to be explicitly unveiled, for human level analysis or interpretation this is valuable. We develop a mult...

The massive national experiment in electricity deregulation — launched by over a dozen states more than a decade ago, in the wake of the Reagan revolution — has failed on multiple counts. Intended to reduce electricity rates, deregulation instead increased rates. For the 10 months through October 2006, average rates in deregulated states were 55 percent higher than in regulated states. Volatili...

Finding extraterrestrial intelligence would calibrate humanity’s place in the cosmos. It would also complete the so-called Copernican revolution. Beginning about 470 years ago, observation and scientific reasoning led to an accurate understanding of our place in the physical universe. The goal of SETI – the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – is to learn our place in the intellectual uni...

GPmuse is software which explores one connection between computation and creativity using a symbiosis-inspired genetic programming paradigm in which distinct agents collaborate to produce 16th-century counterpoint.

The purpose of this exploratory paper is to show the consequence of applying the Copernican Revolution represented by the Critique of the Pure Reason to IS. This revolution has three important implications. First, it implicitly makes a clear distinction between the object of knowledge and the origin of knowledge. Second, it implicitly goes beyond the classical alternatives between perception an...

Background The case of Romand concerns a man who pretended to be a medical doctor and killed his family while the fake identity he had cautiously impersonated for 18 years was about to be exposed. The purpose of this study is to determine the motive of Romand’s following criminal act. In 1993, Romand smashed his wife’s skull and shot his children while asleep. Afterwards, he joined his parents ...

This study aims at shedding some light on the potential impact of agricultural technology adoption on poverty alleviation strategies. It does so through an empirical investigation of the relationship between technological change, of the Green Revolution type, and wellbeing of smallholder farm households in two rural Bangladeshi regions. As technology adoption is not randomly assigned but there ...

This paper studies different kinds of ransomware attacks right from its point of origin to the latest kind of ransomware attacks. As this malware threat has reported a significant increase in the number of report incidents happenings in countries like USA, UK and India. A study of its evolution provides for its first line of defense. So the paper offers an awareness of different kinds of ransom...

This paper intends to construct a framework of understanding the Cultural Revolution and the complexities of such an event on the basis of historically novel forms of political, social and ideological relations. It brings the Cultural Revolution back in a good light so as to show its immense, autonomous historical importance as well as its continuing relevance. It studies and establishes the re...

This paper opens the ‘black box’of political legitimacy and asks what role, if any, it played in the transformation of pre-modern England’s political system to one based on representation and the rule of law. Accordingly, the paper first presents a theory of endogenous legitimacy and why it influences the distribution of political power and thus policies, institutions, and outcomes. Applying th...