Contributions of Technology to International Conflict Resolution

Contributions of Technology to International Conflict Resolution

Author: H. Chestnut

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-06-28

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1483298280

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This book investigates technology's potential for stimulating and strengthening approaches that can lead to the peaceful solution of international conflicts. It discusses the causes of war; the political and social implications of neighbourhood and international involvement, and evaluates various aid programmes. Models are applied to methods of mediation and simulating power distribution and decision making to show how modern technology can be used to promote resolution in the event of conflict.


Emerging Technologies and International Stability

Emerging Technologies and International Stability

Author: Todd S. Sechser

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-11-28

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 1000485560

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Technology has always played a central role in international politics; it shapes the ways states fight during wartime and compete during peacetime. Today, rapid advancements have contributed to a widespread sense that the world is again on the precipice of a new technological era. Emerging technologies have inspired much speculative commentary, but academic scholarship can improve the discussion with disciplined theory-building and rigorous empirics. This book aims to contribute to the debate by exploring the role of technology – both military and non-military – in shaping international security. Specifically, the contributors to this edited volume aim to generate new theoretical insights into the relationship between technology and strategic stability, test them with sound empirical methods, and derive their implications for the coming technological age. This book is very novel in its approach. It covers a wide range of technologies, both old and new, rather than emphasizing a single technology. Furthermore, this volume looks at how new technologies might affect the broader dynamics of the international system rather than limiting the focus to a stability. The contributions to this volume walk readers through the likely effects of emerging technologies at each phase of the conflict process. The chapters begin with competition in peacetime, move to deterrence and coercion, and then explore the dynamics of crises, the outbreak of conflict, and war escalation in an environment of emerging technologies. The chapters in this book, except for the Introduction and the Conclusion, were originally published in the Journal of Strategic Studies.


Information and Communication Technology for Peace

Information and Communication Technology for Peace

Author: Daniel Stauffacher

Publisher: UN

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13:

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This report from ICT4Peace project describes the background to the project before prsented some selected examples of how information technology has been used for the prevention of conflict and aid with recovery.


International Conflict Resolution Using System Engineering (SWIIS)

International Conflict Resolution Using System Engineering (SWIIS)

Author: H. Chestnut

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-07-04

Total Pages: 163

ISBN-13: 1483298272

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Finding an alternative to supplement military ways of resolving international conflicts has been taken up by many people skilled in various areas such as political science, economics, social studies, modelling and simulation, artificial intelligence and expert systems, military strategy and weaponry as well as private business and industry. The Workshop will therefore be of use as it looks at various control methods which would create a conciliatory social and political environment or climate for seeking and obtaining non-military solutions to international conflicts and to solutions to national conflicts which may lead to international conflicts.


Automatic Control in Aerospace 1989

Automatic Control in Aerospace 1989

Author: T. Nishimura

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-05-23

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 1483298981

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The papers presented at the Symposium covered the areas in aerospace technology where automatic control plays a vital role. These included navigation and guidance, space robotics, flight management systems and satellite orbital control systems. The information provided reflects the recent developments and technical advances in the application of automatic control in space technology.


Control of Distributed Parameter Systems 1989

Control of Distributed Parameter Systems 1989

Author: M. Amouroux

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-06-28

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 1483298817

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This volume presents state-of-the-art reports on the theory, and current and future applications of control of distributed parameter systems. The papers cover the progress not only in traditional methodology and pure research in control theory, but also the rapid growth of its importance for different applications. This title will be of interest to researchers working in the areas of mathematics, automatic control, computer science and engineering.


Nonlinear Control Systems Design 1989

Nonlinear Control Systems Design 1989

Author: A. Isidori

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-05-23

Total Pages: 429

ISBN-13: 1483298922

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In the last two decades, the development of specific methodologies for the control of systems described by nonlinear mathematical models has attracted an ever increasing interest. New breakthroughs have occurred which have aided the design of nonlinear control systems. However there are still limitations which must be understood, some of which were addressed at the IFAC Symposium in Capri. The emphasis was on the methodological developments, although a number of the papers were concerned with the presentation of applications of nonlinear design philosophies to actual control problems in chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering.


Advanced Information Processing in Automatic Control (AIPAC'89)

Advanced Information Processing in Automatic Control (AIPAC'89)

Author: R. Husson

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-05-23

Total Pages: 573

ISBN-13: 1483294269

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Information Processing is a key area of research and development and the symposium presented state-of-the-art reports on some of the areas which are of relevance in automatic control: fault diagnosis and system reliability. Papers also covered the role of expert systems and other knowledge based systems, which are needed, to cope with the vast quantities of data generated by large scale systems. This volume should be considered essential reading for anyone involved in this rapidly developing area.


Dynamic Modelling and Control of National Economies 1989

Dynamic Modelling and Control of National Economies 1989

Author: N.M. Christodoulakis

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-06-28

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 1483298825

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The Symposium aimed at analysing and solving the various problems of representation and analysis of decision making in economic systems starting from the level of the individual firm and ending up with the complexities of international policy coordination. The papers are grouped into subject areas such as game theory, control methods, international policy coordination and the applications of artificial intelligence and experts systems as a framework in economic modelling and control. The Symposium therefore provides a wide range of important information for those involved or interested in the planning of company and national economics.


Advances in Control Education 1991

Advances in Control Education 1991

Author: G.F. Franklin

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-05-23

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 1483298892

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This volume is the published proceedings of selected papers from the IFAC Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, 24-25 June 1991, where a forum was provided for the discussion of the latest advances and techniques in the education of control and systems engineers. Emerging technologies in this field, neural networks, fuzzy logic and symbolic computation are incorporated in the papers. Containing 35 papers, these proceedings provide a valuable reference source for anyone lecturing in this area, with many practical applications included.