Regional policy of the countries – reducing disparities between economic development of the regions – has been,
is and will continue to be the focus of policy makers’ attention, therefore it is important to assess regional conditions qualitatively
and to spot the differences in the change of these condition. This would be the basis for developing targeted strategies for further
regional development. The process of regional economic development may be assessed quantitatively and qualitatively. The integrated
mean of the statistical indicators reflects the dynamics of development. The paper’s objective is to develop an aggregate indicator of
development dynamics and to quantify the dynamics of the economic development of the Polish and Lithuanian regions. The employed
methodological approach is based on the authors’ definition of the mean of regional economic development equilibrium. The analysis of
the statistical characteristics of the indicators of three regions of Poland and Lithuania has shown that the dynamics of economic
development in the regions of both countries is similar. On the other hand, Poland is characterized by a more intensive development,
while the development of Lithuanian regions is more levelled.
Abstract. We describe a new point of view that uses contextual information of the interrelated conditions in which criminality or deviant occurs by means of computer simulation to examine its role in a progressively changing society. Based on the functionalist point of view, we model society as a multi agent system and criminality as a noise. A noise is injected as training signals to the single layer perceptrons that functions as agents (i.e. society) and all agents must comply the fitness function. Failure to comply will result in the agent being removed from the "society" and be replaced by a "newborn" that inherits some "upbringing" information from its "mother's agent". Our simulation studies point toward the constructive effects of criminality. The major contribution in our study is that new paradigm can show and measure criminality effects as in contrast to mere verbal descriptions of the social sciences. The new paradigm could be used to provide the functional explanation of atypical trends in criminality in East-and Middle European and some other countries and provide "artificial experimental data" for future studies.
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