This paper introduces the many-armed bandit problem (ManAB), where the number of arms is large comparatively to the relevant number of time steps. While the ManAB framework is relevant to many real-world applications, the state of the art does not offer anytime algorithms handling ManAB problems. Both theory and practice suggest that two problem categories must be distinguished; the easy catego...

The article analyses the advances, setbacks, and new remaining challenges in implementation of Brahimi Report’s (2000) recommendations 20 years after its publication. Because innovations it proposed, document is considered a milestone consolidation doctrinal culture UN peace operations. However, we argue that deployment stabilisation operations, aimed at providing task-forces to support nationa...

Introduction: Quality of life (QoL) is known to be one of the main challenges of the present century in the growing heterogeneous elder population. Therefore, determining the affecting factors of QoL among older people could be imperative. The present study aims at the comparative investigation of the QoL the old people covered by the various pension funds in the city of Tabriz, Iran.         ...

This article introduces the Peace Negotiations in Civil Conflicts (PNCC) dataset, which identifies whether a state-party and rival non-state armed group is formal negotiation phase of peace process. The PNCC goes beyond recording instances talks by offering conceptual framework to identify when government-rebel dyad at risk negotiations. It explicitly considers issues central event-history mode...

Abstract In general, when analyzing the costs of armed conflict, literature most often relates to civil wars or interstate conflicts. The moment September 11, 2001 marked beginning a new concern in economy, namely economic cost terrorism. Terrorism is form conflict which acts violence are directed at non-combatants civilians who usually unrelated political target group that committed it. This a...

Which armed groups have perpetrated sexual violence in recent conflicts? This article presents patterns from the new Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict (SVAC) dataset. The dataset, coded from the three most widely used sources in the quantitative human rights literature, covers 129 active conflicts, and the 625 armed actors involved in these conflicts, during the period 1989–2009. The unit of ob...