How Parallel Markets Fueled Chronic Shortage in the Soviet Official Sector

Hazans, Mihails

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“…x , … , (1) 2 N x from B. In perceptron training, we require that for class A the output ought to be close to a priori selected target, t 1 .…”

Section: The Single Layer Perceptron and Its Training Peculiaritiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lack of reliable theory mainly leads to failure to fight it [1][2][3]. Several different explanations were proposed and it was found that criminality is highly affected by unemployment, urbanization, migration of the population, etc.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They were viewed in terms of their functions in adaptation of the whole society. Analogically to explanation of such "negative biological events" like illness or death in terms of their meaning for survival of species, this approach in sociology and criminology was able to see these supposedly totally "negative social events" in terms of their meaning for survival and stability of a society 1 . To mimic such situations, we perform computer simulation of populations of intelligent agents that ought to readapt to permanently and unexpectedly changing environments [6].…”

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Functional Model of Criminality: Simulation Study

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Hussain

Justickis

et al. 2005

Modeling and Using Context

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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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“…x , … , (1) 2 N x from B. In perceptron training, we require that for class A the output ought to be close to a priori selected target, t 1 .…”

Section: The Single Layer Perceptron and Its Training Peculiaritiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%