Programming for Peace

Computer-Aided Methods for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention

• Author(s): Robert Trappl,
• Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
• Pages: 463
• ISBN_10: 1402043902
  ISBN_13: 9781402043901
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Science / General , Computers / Computer Science , Social Science / General , Social Science / Methodology , Political Science / General , Computers / Artificial Intelligence / General , Philosophy / General , Social Science / Research , Political Science / History & Theory ,

Description:...

Sadly enough, war, conflicts and terrorism appear to stay with us in the 21st century. But what is our outlook on new methods for preventing and ending them? Present-day hard- and software enables the development of large crisis, conflict, and conflict management databases with many variables, sometimes with automated updates, statistical analyses of a high complexity, elaborate simulation models, and even interactive uses of these databases.

In this book, these methods are presented, further developed, and applied in relation to the main issue: the resolution and prevention of intra- and international conflicts. Conflicts are a worldwide phenomenon. Therefore, internationally leading researchers from the USA, Austria, Canada, Germany, New Zealand and Switzerland have contributed.