Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has the highest growth rate in net international migration in the world. The reasons for this migration are investigated in this paper. First, a survey of the literature on the profile and determinants of international migration in SSA is given. Second, panel data on 45 countries spanning the period 1965 to 2005 are used to determine that the main reasons for internatio...

This paper reports findings from the initial stage of a funded collaborative research program aimed at identification of E-Commerce cultural change and technology uptake experience in Australia and comparison of Australian and United States experience. In collaboration with Georgia State University and employing the study script and methodology used in their landmark American research series, t...

Evolutionary algorithms have been widely used to solve large and complex optimisation problems. Cultural algorithms (CAs) are evolutionary algorithms that have been used to solve both single and, to a less extent, multiobjective optimisation problems. In order to solve these optimisation problems, CAs make use of different strategies such as normative knowledge, historical knowledge, circumstan...

In this article, we construct and test a micro-level event-centered approach to the study of armed conflict and behavioral responses in the general population. Event-centered approaches have been successfully used in the macro-political study of armed conflict but have not yet been adopted in micro-behavioral studies. The micro-level event-centered approach that we advocate here includes decomp...

Abstract— The air traffic conflict resolution represents a real time problem. Thus, it must be interesting to apply methods which their computing time is negligible. In this study, we use cultural algorithms to solve an artificial conflict involving five aircrafts. These algorithms present the advantage to evolve 10 times faster than genetic algorithms. We assume that the trajectories of all ai...

Abstract Using the example of controversial Site C dam in British Columbia, Canada, this article describes how ethnographic research that incorporated a conflict transformation perspective and included individuals from both sides issue highlighted contrasting views on human-environment relations inequitable conditions under which they met through Environmental Assessment process. The argues an ...

2 Amelina, Anna: Searching for an appropriate research strategy on transnational migration: The logic of multi-sited research and the capacity of the cultural interferences approach, The COMCAD Working Paper Series is intended to aid the rapid distribution of work in progress, research findings and special lectures by researchers and associates of COMCAD. Papers aim to stimulate discussion amon...