title: Clustering Relational Data Based on Randomized Propositionalization

authors: Anderson, Grant

subjects: computer science

abstract: Clustering of relational data has so far received a lot less attention than classification of such data. In this paper we investigate a simple approach based on randomized propositionalization, which allows for applying standard clustering algorithms like KMeans to multi-relational data. We describe how random rules are generated and then turned into Boolean-valued features. Clustering generally is not straightforward to evaluate, but preliminary experimental results on a number of standard ILP datasets show promising results. Clusters generated without class information usually agree well with the true class labels of cluster members, i.e. class distributions inside clusters generally differ significantly from the global class distributions. The two-tiered algorithm described shows good scalability due to the randomized nature of the first step and the availability of efficient propositional clustering algorithms for the second step.

text: Clustering Relational Data Based on Randomized Propositionalization Clustering of relational data has so far received a lot less attention than classification of such data. In this paper we investigate a simple approach based on randomized propositionalization, which allows for applying standard clustering algorithms like KMeans to multi-relational data. We describe how random rules are generated and then turned into Boolean-valued features. Clustering generally is not straightforward to evaluate, but preliminary experimental results on a number of standard ILP datasets show promising results. Clusters generated without class information usually agree well with the true class labels of cluster members, i.e. class distributions inside clusters generally differ significantly from the global class distributions. The two-tiered algorithm described shows good scalability due to the randomized nature of the first step and the availability of efficient propositional clustering algorithms for the second step.

year: 2008

title: Is multilateralism in crisis?

authors: Bigdeli, Sadeq Z.

abstract: Since 2006, more than a quarter of the requests for consultation at the WTO have invoked the SCM Agreement more than half of which have involved China - mostly as respondent. 
I think the nature of 21st century subsidy disputes that along with AD cases, are clearly on the rise - not only in terms of number but more importantly in terms of scope of government actions and regulatory areas they cover - is as much about economic conflicts as they are about ideational and at some deeper level ideological conflicts over the "proper" role of the state in a market economy.

text: Is multilateralism in crisis? Since 2006, more than a quarter of the requests for consultation at the WTO have invoked the SCM Agreement more than half of which have involved China - mostly as respondent. 
I think the nature of 21st century subsidy disputes that along with AD cases, are clearly on the rise - not only in terms of number but more importantly in terms of scope of government actions and regulatory areas they cover - is as much about economic conflicts as they are about ideational and at some deeper level ideological conflicts over the "proper" role of the state in a market economy.

year: 2012

title: Alternative anthropologies: Kete aronui from the Waikato

authors: McCormack, Fiona

abstract: As three anthropologists working at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, Aotearoa (New Zealand), we experience anthropology in our daily work in the context of our local histories, communities and politics. While many anthropologists are familiar with the critiques of anthropology that play out in the USA or Europe, the narratives and practices of anthropology from places such as New Zealand are less well known. We argue that these local, diverse experiences of anthropology can enlarge our international understandings and imaginations of what anthropology can be, as well as the challenges it may face.

Anthropologists working in New Zealand today face the same plethora of academic pressures as those found in their counterparts in North America, Britain and Europe; pressures instigated by decades of neoliberal reform, managerialism, and the impact of new entrepreneurial and corporate models of universities that shape everyday identities and social relationships (Shore 2010). Similarly, the critique of anthropology as a discipline rooted in colonial imperatives and practices, resounds in a society whose imperial history and settler colonial present continues to imprint on educational institutions, pedagogy and research. In New Zealand, no neat historical trajectory marks a path from extractive research, wherein Indigenous knowledge and ways of life are pottled for export to the empire’s core, to one based on mutuality, co-creation and the indigenisation of anthropological knowledge.

text: Alternative anthropologies: Kete aronui from the Waikato As three anthropologists working at the University of Waikato in Hamilton, Aotearoa (New Zealand), we experience anthropology in our daily work in the context of our local histories, communities and politics. While many anthropologists are familiar with the critiques of anthropology that play out in the USA or Europe, the narratives and practices of anthropology from places such as New Zealand are less well known. We argue that these local, diverse experiences of anthropology can enlarge our international understandings and imaginations of what anthropology can be, as well as the challenges it may face.

Anthropologists working in New Zealand today face the same plethora of academic pressures as those found in their counterparts in North America, Britain and Europe; pressures instigated by decades of neoliberal reform, managerialism, and the impact of new entrepreneurial and corporate models of universities that shape everyday identities and social relationships (Shore 2010). Similarly, the critique of anthropology as a discipline rooted in colonial imperatives and practices, resounds in a society whose imperial history and settler colonial present continues to imprint on educational institutions, pedagogy and research. In New Zealand, no neat historical trajectory marks a path from extractive research, wherein Indigenous knowledge and ways of life are pottled for export to the empire’s core, to one based on mutuality, co-creation and the indigenisation of anthropological knowledge.

year: 2025