World Event/interaction Survey (WEIS Project) [Codebook]
World Event/interaction Survey (WEIS Project) [Codebook]

Author: Charles McClelland

Publisher:

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13:

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The World Event/Interaction Survey (WEIS) Project is a research program examining international system characteristics and processes. Specifically, the data collected in the WEIS Project are public events reported daily in the press. The data reflect the flow of action and response between countries. One basic theoretical assumption underlying the project is that in the international political system, nations act consistently enough so that their past behavior is a source for the prediction of their present and future actions. Thus a country's external 'performance characteristics' in dealing with a wide variety of situations and with other countries are conceived to be made up of combinations of 'primary actions' that are categorized explicitly. These combinations of 'primary actions' are expected to fit together with those other countries in patterns of interaction. The purpose of the research is to discover if these theoretically expected characteristics and patterns make regular appearances in international relations. (Author) and patterns make regular appearances in international relations. (Author).

WEIS (World Event/Interaction Survey) Project Final Report
WEIS (World Event/Interaction Survey) Project Final Report

Author: Ronald G. Sherwin

Publisher:

Published: 1973

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13:

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The report summarizes the work carried on by the WEIS project since 1968. The specific topics discussed are (1) receiving and storing international relations information on computers in serialized data sets; (2) data retrieval and tabulation; and (3) event-data analysis, including monitoring and projecting event flows. In addition, the report presents the Project's views regarding foreign policy decision-making and executing adaptive foreign policies.

The World Event/interaction Survey Data Collection
The World Event/interaction Survey Data Collection

Author: Gary D. Hoggard

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 11

ISBN-13:

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Previous reports have outlined the theoretical basis of the program and the research procedures for event/interaction analysis. The report discusses the status of the data collection. The main data collection consists of 18,007 interaction items coded according to the WEIS (World Event/Interaction Survey) categorization system and taken from the daily New York Times for the three year period 1966, 1967, and 1968. The items are summarized in descriptive form and coded for computer analyses, as outlined in Technical Report no. 1. The descriptive accounts of the interaction items for 1967 are presented as a display of the data included in the collection. The distribution of the items by month for the three year period are presented and indicate an average of 500 items per month.

North Korea and the Science of Provocation
North Korea and the Science of Provocation

Author: Robert Daniel Wallace

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2016-02-03

Total Pages: 265

ISBN-13: 0786499699

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Why does North Korea routinely turn to provocation to achieve foreign policy goals? Are the actions of the volatile Kim regime predictable, based on logical responses to the conditions faced by North Korea? This book, an examination of the "Hermit Kingdom" over the past 50 years, explains why the Democratic People's Republic of Korea uses hostility and coercion as instruments of foreign policy. Using three case studies and quantitative analysis of more than 2,000 conflict events, the author explores the relationship between North Korea's societal conditions and its propensity for external conflict. These findings are considered in light of diversionary theory, the idea that leaders use external conflict to divert attention from domestic affairs. Analyzing the actions of an isolated state such as North Korea provides a template for conflict scholarship in general.

Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism
Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism

Author: V.S. Subrahmanian

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-12

Total Pages: 580

ISBN-13: 1461453119

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Terrorist groups throughout the world have been studied primarily through the use of social science methods. However, major advances in IT during the past decade have led to significant new ways of studying terrorist groups, making forecasts, learning models of their behaviour, and shaping policies about their behaviour. Handbook of Computational Approaches to Counterterrorism provides the first in-depth look at how advanced mathematics and modern computing technology is shaping the study of terrorist groups. This book includes contributions from world experts in the field, and presents extensive information on terrorism data sets, new ways of building such data sets in real-time using text analytics, introduces the mathematics and computational approaches to understand terror group behaviour, analyzes terror networks, forecasts terror group behaviour, and shapes policies against terrorist groups. Auxiliary information will be posted on the book’s website. This book targets defence analysts, counter terror analysts, computer scientists, mathematicians, political scientists, psychologists, and researchers from the wide variety of fields engaged in counter-terrorism research. Advanced-level students in computer science, mathematics and social sciences will also find this book useful.

Knowledge Graphs
Knowledge Graphs

Author: Mayank Kejriwal

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 559

ISBN-13: 0262361884

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A rigorous and comprehensive textbook covering the major approaches to knowledge graphs, an active and interdisciplinary area within artificial intelligence. The field of knowledge graphs, which allows us to model, process, and derive insights from complex real-world data, has emerged as an active and interdisciplinary area of artificial intelligence over the last decade, drawing on such fields as natural language processing, data mining, and the semantic web. Current projects involve predicting cyberattacks, recommending products, and even gleaning insights from thousands of papers on COVID-19. This textbook offers rigorous and comprehensive coverage of the field. It focuses systematically on the major approaches, both those that have stood the test of time and the latest deep learning methods.

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.