This article discusses the political dynamic of agenda-setting in the subfield of international nuclear co-operation, within an analytical framework that integrates the literature on international co-operation in science ...

Prosocial organizations are emerging to tackle the effects of a New Normal. As they navigate its fragile and liquid institutional membranes, they prioritize cooperative forms of governance. These forms allow for collaboration ...

Why agents cooperate is an old question that has been widely studied in economics, as well as in other disciplines. In economics, the focus has been mainly put in analyzing whether cooperative behaviors may arise from ...

Identification and classification of overlapping nodes in networks are important topics in data mining. In this paper, a network-based (graph-based) semi-supervised learning method is proposed. It is based on competition ...

Identification and classification of overlapping nodes in networks are important topics in data mining. In this paper, a network-based (graph-based) semi-supervised learning method is proposed. It is based on competition ...

Classroom meetings and cooperative homework typically require participants to be physically present in the room. In this setting, the whiteboard is a tool widely used to express ideas. However, nowadays it is more difficult ...

We study two cooperative solutions of a market with indivisible goods modeled as a generalized assignment game: Set-wise stability and Core. We establish that the Set-wise stable set is contained in the Core and contains ...

Semi-supervised learning methods are usually employed in the classification of data sets where only a small subset of the data items is labeled. In these scenarios, label noise is a crucial issue, since the noise may easily ...

The economic stagnation in the 80s and its consequences in the first years of the 90s led Brazil to a severe economic crisis, which raised the unemployment index to alarming levels. In view of this setting, many companies ...