Social network analysis faces profound difficulties in sharing data between researchers due to privacy and security concerns. A potential remedy to this issue are synthetic networks, that closely resemble their real counterparts, but can be freely distributed. generating synthetic networks requires the creation of network topologies that, in application, function as realistically as possible. Widely applied models are currently rule-based and can struggle to reproduce structural dynamics. Lead by recent developments in Graph Neural Network (GNN) models for network generation we evaluate the potential of GNNs for synthetic social networks. Our GNN use is specifically within a reasonable use-case and includes empirical evaluation using Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD). We include social network specific measurements which allow evaluation of how realistically synthetic networks behave in typical social network analysis applications. We find that the Gated Recurrent Attention Network (GRAN) extends well to social networks, and in comparison to a benchmark popular rule-based generation Recursive-MATrix (R-MAT) method, is better able to replicate realistic structural dynamics. We find that GRAN is more computationally costly than R-MAT, but is not excessively costly to employ, so would be effective for researchers seeking to create datasets of synthetic social networks.

规范有助于规范社会。规范可以是明确的（以结构化形式表示）或隐式。我们通过开发代理商来解决明确规范的出现，这些代理商在决定制裁和确定替代规范时提供了违反规范的解释。这些试剂使用遗传算法来生成规范和增强学习，以学习这些规范的价值。我们发现，应用解释会导致规范为代理提供更好的凝聚力和目标满意度。我们的结果对于具有不同慷慨态度的社会是稳定的。

全世界不可持续的捕鱼实践对海洋资源和生态系统构成了重大威胁。识别逃避监测系统的船只（称为“深色船只”）是管理和保护海洋环境健康的关键。随着基于卫星的合成孔径雷达（SAR）成像和现代机器学习（ML）的兴起，现在可以在全天候条件下白天或黑夜自动检测到黑暗的容器。但是，SAR图像需要特定于域的治疗，并且ML社区无法广泛使用。此外，对象（船只）是小而稀疏的，具有挑战性的传统计算机视觉方法。我们提出了用于训练ML模型的最大标记数据集，以检测和表征SAR的血管。 XView3-SAR由Sentinel-1任务中的近1,000张分析SAR图像组成，平均每个29,400 x-24,400像素。使用自动化和手动分析的组合对图像进行注释。每个SAR图像都伴随着共置的测深和风状射手。我们概述了XView3计算机视觉挑战的结果，这是一项国际竞争，使用XView3-SAR进行大规模的船舶检测和表征。我们发布数据（https://iuu.xview.us/）和代码（https://github.com/diux-xview），以支持该重要应用程序的ML方法的持续开发和评估。