The International Laboratory for Social Integration Research (ILSIR) at HSE University studies the challenges faced by vulnerable groups and explores ways to help them participate fully in everyday life. To develop effective solutions, the laboratory’s researchers combine cutting-edge methods with practical fieldwork. In this interview with the HSE News Service, Laboratory Head Elena Iarskaia-Smirnova discusses the laboratory’s work.
Timur Khusyainov, Deputy Dean of theFaculty of Humanities atHSE University–Nizhny Novgorod, took part in two international conferences—the XVI World Congress of Rural Sociology in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and the 36th Annual Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (DH2026) in Daejeon, South Korea. On his way to the conferences, the researcher also visited several other places, where he presented the experience of the Pochtovoe educational project.
Large vortices with characteristic spiral arms are often observed in the atmosphere and the ocean. Physicists from HSE University have explained how these structures form and why they retain their shape. The researchers found that velocities at points located along the same vortex arc remain correlated even over long distances. At the same time, this correlation weakens rapidly with increasing distance from the vortex centre. These differences help explain the formation of spiral arms and may improve models of atmospheric and oceanic currents. The findings have been published in Physical Review Fluids.
Lepskiy A., , in: Intelligent and Fuzzy Systems. Intelligence and Sustainable Future Proceedings of the INFUS 2023 Conference, Volume 1.Vol. 758. Issue 1.: Cham: Springer, 2023. P. 69–76.
The threshold aggregation rule used to rank alternatives that are evaluated against a set of criteria is known in decision theory. The generalization of the threshold aggregation rule to the case when the estimates in the alternatives are described by fuzzy numbers is considered in the paper. The fuzzy threshold aggregation procedure has been developed ...
Karabekyan D., Журнал Новой экономической ассоциации 2022 № 5(57) С. 24–37
Some distortions are possible in the process of preference aggregation. For example, one voter who is pivotal for some preference profi le may not read instructions properly and accidently submit wrong preference. We study how different voting rules react to these distortions for three, four and fi ve alternatives with computer modelling. One of the ...
Vyacheslav V. Chistyakov, Procedia Computer Science 2014 Vol. 31 P. 1032–1035
In the case when alternatives are ranked by several equivalent criteria on the scale of three grades (bad, average,
good) we develop the axiomatics of preference functions for the superposition of the Borda and threshold preference
orders and present the explicit formula for the evaluation of the enumerating preference function. ...
Aleskerov F. T., Vyacheslav V. Chistyakov, Procedia Computer Science 2013 Vol. 17 P. 1103–1106
The problem of axiomatic and algorithmic constructions of the threshold decision making is studied in the case when individual opinions are given as m-graded strict preferences (with m ≥ 3). It is shown that the only rule satisfying the introduced axioms is the threshold rule. Two explicit algorithms are presented: the ordering algorithm, under which ...