Aleksejus Kononovicius: What can the Bass diffusion model tell us about piracy?

Recently in Lithuanian and world's different or global social spaces there was a lot of disccusion on anti-piracy and the proportionality of so-called "protection" of intelectual properties. The US politicians consider SOPA and PIPA, while EU countries one after another expressed will to join ACTA. In Lithuanian media and blogosphere, as most probably in the rest of the world, has split into the ACTA supporter and opposition camps.

IARIA publication reviewing our different research directions

In the last year we have already written that work in the context of Physics of Risk provides varying insights into very different complex systems. The previous article [1] contained brief review of Physics of Risk platform and discussions on some of the models published using it. This article received great response and was even awarded the Best Paper Award by the publisher IARIA.

Aleksejus Kononovicius: Fractale - anime on fractals

Recently the largest Lithuanian anime community has launched its 2011 anime awards. In context of Physics of Risk I have found one very interesting nominee - Fractale. It is nominated as the best adventure and best science fiction anime of the year, though so far it is far behind the leaders.

First thing each viewer see is memorable opening sequence, which is rich of strange patterns and fractals. The view is nice, interesting and very sophisticated.