Cortical processing is a set of organized computations carried out by a large set of cortical cell assemblies (CA) widely distributed over the entire cortex. These CAs specialize in computing specific pieces of information, called here, information granules. The most elementary information...

Can an algorithm assist firms in their hiring decisions of corporate directors? This paper proposes a method of selecting boards of directors that relies on machine learning. We develop algorithms with the goal of selecting directors that would be preferred by the shareholders of a particular...

Purpose – The paper examines how metadata taxonomies in embodied computing databases indicate their orientation (e.g. indicating a marketing focus vs. a focus on ethical and social impact) and describes ways to track the evolution of the embodied computing industry over time through digital...

This paper provides a programme that computes in STATA a Firm-Level Cluster Index based on the method - with minor differences - from Thomas Brenner and Tobias Scholl, "Detecting Spatial Clustering Using a Firm-Level Cluster Index", Regional Studies, 2016, p. 1054-1068

Since the 1990s, R&D has become less geographically concentrated, and has seen especially fast growth in emerging markets. One of the distinguishing features of the R&D globalization phenomenon is its concentration within the software/IT domain; the increase in foreign R&D has been largely...

The push toward global connectivity and the worldwide expansion of the internet, combined with the ongoing decline in the cost of technology, will change global labor markets and the nature of employment. Future technology will coordinate the assignment, distribution, and measurement of tasks to...

Features of the ‘fourth industrial revolution', such as platforms, AI and machine learning, pose challenges for the application of regulatory rules, in the area of labour law as elsewhere. However, today's digital technologies have their origins in earlier phases of industrialisation, and do...

It is ironic that most digital money is delivered through very analog agent networks. These networks are defined by large field teams, stacks of paperwork and layers of cash management logistics. The problems the first generation of agent networks faced ten years ago are still issues today, and...

Information revolution has resulted in fundamental changes in the fields of technology, economy, science and education, politics, publishing industry, culture and arts, but also in the way people think and behave. Social awareness for more progressive education, and also the urgent response to...

This paper concerns accurate computation of the singular value decomposition (SVD) of an × matrix . As is well known, cross-product matrix based SVD algorithms compute large singular values accurately but generally deliver poor small singular values. A new novel cross-product matrix based SVD...