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An application of Bayesian network for predicting object-oriented software maintainability
As the number of object-oriented software systems increases, it becomes more important for organizations to maintain those systems effectively. However, currently only a small number of maintainability prediction models ...
"An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." A study of political violence and counter-insurgency in Egypt
This paper analyses a newly collected time-series database measuring the dimensions of violent political conflict in Egypt. Attention is focused on the interaction between politically motivated attacks by Islamists and the ...
Substitutability and protectionism: Latin America’s trade policy and imports from China and India
This paper examines the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these ...
Social collaboration, stochastic strategies and information referrals
Referrals are used in multi-agent systems, network agents and peer-to-peer systems for the purpose of global or local information spreading to facilitate trust relationships and reciprocal interactions. Based on referral ...
How do norms emerge in multi-agent societies? Mechanisms design
Norms are shared expectations of behaviours that exist in human societies. Norms help societies by increasing the predictability of individual behaviours and by improving co-operation and collaboration among members. Norms ...
The determinants of international students' return intention
Students’ non-return is a specific type of brain drain. This paper is an empirical study of the determinants of students’ return intention in New Zealand. Applying a binary logit model on a comprehensive set of survey data, ...
Inequality and economic growth: The empirical relationship reconsidered in the light of comparable data
All of the recent empirical work on the relationship between income inequality and economic growth has used inequality data that are not consistently measured. This paper argues that this is inappropriate and shows that ...
Linear or Nonlinear Cointegration in the Purchasing Power Parity Relationship?
We test long-run PPP within a general model of cointegration of linear and nonlinear form. Nonlinear cointegration is tested with rank tests of Breitung (2001). We determine first the order of integration of each variable, ...
Multi-agent system interaction protocols in a dynamically changing environment
An area where multi-agent systems can be put to effective use is for the case of an open collection of autonomous problem solvers in a dynamically changing environment. One example of such a situation is that of environmental ...
Enhancing clustering in wireless sensor networks with energy heterogeneity
While wireless sensor networks (WSN) are increasingly equipped to handle more complex functions, in-network processing still require the battery powered sensors to judiciously use their constrained energy so as to prolong ...