Atomistic, individual-oriented economic models of criminal behavior fail to capture critical scale-dependent behaviors that characterize criminal enterprises as cultural artifacts. Public policies based on such models have contributed materially to the practice of mass incarceration in the USA....

The encoder and decoder for lossy data compression of binary memoryless sources are developed on the basis of a specific-type nonmonotonic perceptron. Statistical mechanical analysis indicates that the potential ability of the perceptron-based code saturates the theoretically achievable limit in...