Although many studies have been conducted to improve the clustering efficiency, most of the state-of-art schemes suffer from the lack of robustness and stability. This paper is aimed at proposing an efficient approach to elicit prior knowledge in terms of must-link and cannot-link from the estimated distribution of raw data in order to convert a blind clustering problem into a semi-supervised o...

Despite being a developed and industrialized country with one of Europe‟s most booming economies, Germany ranks only 33rd in Gallup‟s World Poll on happiness, well below the United States, the United Kingdom, and many other first-world countries.1 This is particularly perplexing when one considers Germany‟s highly progressive taxation system and its residents‟ extraordinary access to public goo...

Abstract The most evident shortcoming of the international agreements on climate actions is compliance to their prescriptions. Can John Rawls’s social contract theory help us solve problem? We apply veil ignorance decision-making setting in a sequential dictator game study change and we test model laboratory experiment. shows be very powerful at inducing subjects converge sustainable intergener...