Militarized Conflict Modeling Using Computational Intelligence

Author : Tshilidzi Marwala
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 0857297902
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Militarized Conflict Modeling Using Computational Intelligence written by Tshilidzi Marwala and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-08-24 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Militarized Conflict Modeling Using Computational Intelligence examines the application of computational intelligence methods to model conflict. Traditionally, conflict has been modeled using game theory. The inherent limitation of game theory when dealing with more than three players in a game is the main motivation for the application of computational intelligence in modeling conflict. Militarized interstate disputes (MIDs) are defined as a set of interactions between, or among, states that can result in the display, threat or actual use of military force in an explicit way. These interactions can result in either peace or conflict. This book models the relationship between key variables and the risk of conflict between two countries. The variables include Allies which measures the presence or absence of military alliance, Contiguity which measures whether the countries share a common boundary or not and Major Power which measures whether either or both states are a major power. Militarized Conflict Modeling Using Computational Intelligence implements various multi-layer perception neural networks, Bayesian networks, support vector machines, neuro-fuzzy models, rough sets models, neuro-rough sets models and optimized rough sets models to create models that estimate the risk of conflict given the variables. Secondly, these models are used to study the sensitivity of each variable to conflict. Furthermore, a framework on how these models can be used to control the possibility of peace is proposed. Finally, new and emerging topics on modelling conflict are identified and further work is proposed.

Author : Tshilidzi Marwala
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447150104
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Modeling Using Artificial Intelligence Methods written by Tshilidzi Marwala and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic Modeling Using Artificial Intelligence Methods examines the application of artificial intelligence methods to model economic data. Traditionally, economic modeling has been modeled in the linear domain where the principles of superposition are valid. The application of artificial intelligence for economic modeling allows for a flexible multi-order non-linear modeling. In addition, game theory has largely been applied in economic modeling. However, the inherent limitation of game theory when dealing with many player games encourages the use of multi-agent systems for modeling economic phenomena. The artificial intelligence techniques used to model economic data include: multi-layer perceptron neural networks radial basis functions support vector machines rough sets genetic algorithm particle swarm optimization simulated annealing multi-agent system incremental learning fuzzy networks Signal processing techniques are explored to analyze economic data, and these techniques are the time domain methods, time-frequency domain methods and fractals dimension approaches. Interesting economic problems such as causality versus correlation, simulating the stock market, modeling and controling inflation, option pricing, modeling economic growth as well as portfolio optimization are examined. The relationship between economic dependency and interstate conflict is explored, and knowledge on how economics is useful to foster peace – and vice versa – is investigated. Economic Modeling Using Artificial Intelligence Methods deals with the issue of causality in the non-linear domain and applies the automatic relevance determination, the evidence framework, Bayesian approach and Granger causality to understand causality and correlation. Economic Modeling Using Artificial Intelligence Methods makes an important contribution to the area of econometrics, and is a valuable source of reference for graduate students, researchers and financial practitioners.

Author : Tshilidzi Marwala
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1447123794
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Condition Monitoring Using Computational Intelligence Methods written by Tshilidzi Marwala and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Condition Monitoring Using Computational Intelligence Methods promotes the various approaches gathered under the umbrella of computational intelligence to show how condition monitoring can be used to avoid equipment failures and lengthen its useful life, minimize downtime and reduce maintenance costs. The text introduces various signal-processing and pre-processing techniques, wavelets and principal component analysis, for example, together with their uses in condition monitoring and details the development of effective feature extraction techniques classified into frequency-, time-frequency- and time-domain analysis. Data generated by these techniques can then be used for condition classification employing tools such as: • fuzzy systems; rough and neuro-rough sets; neural and Bayesian networks;hidden Markov and Gaussian mixture models; and support vector machines.

Author : Bo Xing
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351265075
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smart Computing Applications in Crowdfunding written by Bo Xing and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book focuses on smart computing for crowdfunding usage, looking at the crowdfunding landscape, e.g., reward-, donation-, equity-, P2P-based and the crowdfunding ecosystem, e.g., regulator, asker, backer, investor, and operator. The increased complexity of fund raising scenario, driven by the broad economic environment as well as the need for using alternative funding sources, has sparked research in smart computing techniques. Covering a wide range of detailed topics, the authors of this book offer an outstanding overview of the current state of the art; providing deep insights into smart computing methods, tools, and their applications in crowdfunding; exploring the importance of smart analysis, prediction, and decision-making within the fintech industry. This book is intended to be an authoritative and valuable resource for professional practitioners and researchers alike, as well as finance engineering, and computer science students who are interested in crowdfunding and other emerging fintech topics.

Author : Tshilidzi Marwala
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 9819951038
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory and Mechanism Design in Politics written by Tshilidzi Marwala and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-04 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how AI and mechanism design can provide a new framework for international politics. The international political system is all manners in which countries, governments and people relate. Mechanism design in international politics relates to identifying rules that define relationships between people and countries that achieve a particular outcome, e.g., peace or more trade or democracy or economic development. Artificial intelligence is technique of making machines intelligent. This book explores mechanism design and artificial intelligence in international politics and applies these technologies to politics, economy and society. This book will be of interest to scholars of international relations, politics, sustainable development, and artificial intelligence.

Author : Tshilidzi Marwala
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9813271248
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook Of Machine Learning - Volume 1: Foundation Of Artificial Intelligence written by Tshilidzi Marwala and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-10-22 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a comprehensive book on the theories of artificial intelligence with an emphasis on their applications. It combines fuzzy logic and neural networks, as well as hidden Markov models and genetic algorithm, describes advancements and applications of these machine learning techniques and describes the problem of causality. This book should serves as a useful reference for practitioners in artificial intelligence.

Author : Tshilidzi Marwala
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319661043
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Artificial Intelligence and Economic Theory: Skynet in the Market written by Tshilidzi Marwala and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book theoretically and practically updates major economic ideas such as demand and supply, rational choice and expectations, bounded rationality, behavioral economics, information asymmetry, pricing, efficient market hypothesis, game theory, mechanism design, portfolio theory, causality and financial engineering in the age of significant advances in man-machine systems. The advent of artificial intelligence has changed many disciplines such as engineering, social science and economics. Artificial intelligence is a computational technique which is inspired by natural intelligence concepts such as the swarming of birds, the working of the brain and the pathfinding of the ants. Artificial Intelligence and Economic Theory: Skynet in the Market analyses the impact of artificial intelligence on economic theories, a subject that has not been studied. It also introduces new economic theories and these are rational counterfactuals and rational opportunity costs. These ideas are applied to diverse areas such as modelling of the stock market, credit scoring, HIV and interstate conflict. Artificial intelligence ideas used in this book include neural networks, particle swarm optimization, simulated annealing, fuzzy logic and genetic algorithms. It, furthermore, explores ideas in causality including Granger as well as the Pearl causality models.

Author : Xing, Bo
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1466649097
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Computational Intelligence in Remanufacturing written by Xing, Bo and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2013-12-31 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In attempts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, many alternatives to manufacturing have been recommended from a number of international organizations. Although challenges will arise, remanufacturing has the ability to transform ecological and business value. Computational Intelligence in Remanufacturing introduces various computational intelligence techniques that are applied to remanufacturing-related issues, results, and lessons from specific applications while highlighting future development and research. This book is an essential reference for students, researchers, and practitioners in mechanical, industrial, and electrical engineering.

Author : Bo Xing
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3319034049
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Innovative Computational Intelligence: A Rough Guide to 134 Clever Algorithms written by Bo Xing and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first notable feature of this book is its innovation: Computational intelligence (CI), a fast evolving area, is currently attracting lots of researchers’ attention in dealing with many complex problems. At present, there are quite a lot competing books existing in the market. Nevertheless, the present book is markedly different from the existing books in that it presents new paradigms of CI that have rarely mentioned before, as opposed to the traditional CI techniques or methodologies employed in other books. During the past decade, a number of new CI algorithms are proposed. Unfortunately, they spread in a number of unrelated publishing directions which may hamper the use of such published resources. These provide us with motivation to analyze the existing research for categorizing and synthesizing it in a meaningful manner. The mission of this book is really important since those algorithms are going to be a new revolution in computer science. We hope it will stimulate the readers to make novel contributions or even start a new paradigm based on nature phenomena. Although structured as a textbook, the book's straightforward, self-contained style will also appeal to a wide audience of professionals, researchers and independent learners. We believe that the book will be instrumental in initiating an integrated approach to complex problems by allowing cross-fertilization of design principles from different design philosophies. The second feature of this book is its comprehensiveness: Through an extensive literature research, there are 134 innovative CI algorithms covered in this book.

Author : Tshilidzi Marwala
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 981120568X
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Handbook Of Machine Learning - Volume 2: Optimization And Decision Making written by Tshilidzi Marwala and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-11-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on , this volume on Optimization and Decision Making covers a range of algorithms and their applications. Like the first volume, it provides a starting point for machine learning enthusiasts as a comprehensive guide on classical optimization methods. It also provides an in-depth overview on how artificial intelligence can be used to define, disprove or validate economic modeling and decision making concepts.