How does violence affect foreign direct investment (FDI) in developing countries? Most research on this question examines political violence, such as war, terrorism, or political instability. However, we know little about how criminal violence – which has wreaked havoc in…

This document deals with the question of how International Organizations (IOs) influence states. Analyzing original quantitative data from Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe, we explore the role of IOs in the configuration of states’ interests and normative agendas,…

Frequent graph pattern mining is an important problem in diverse research fields
but, until recently, algorithms that focus on the problem had only used graph
isomorphism to identify occurrences of a given pattern. In the last years, however,
a few…

In clustering, providing an explanation of the results is an important task.
Pattern-based clustering algorithms provide, in addition to the list of objects
belonging to each cluster, an explanation of the results in terms of a set of
patterns that…