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understanding future evolutions is a necessity for governance in this developing world. in military affairs, deterrence, elaborated in this part, is a way of countering probable future conflicts

Commitments are being used widely to specify interaction among autonomous agents in multiagent systems. While various formalizations for commitments and its life cycle exist, there has been little work that studies commitments in relation to each other. However, in many situations, the content and state of one commitment may render another commitment useless or even worse create conflicts. This...

In this book, we have explored the possibility that elusive ground targets are becoming increasingly salient. As discussed in the Introduction, advances in standoff sensors and weapons are making massed mechanized forces in the open highly vulnerable. Making ground forces more elusive is one possible counter to this vulnerability. Dispersing, hiding, engaging in deception, and shifting fires to...

We present a method to assess the possible conflict of beliefs in ontologies. Those beliefs represent for example the assessment of an ontology in regard to some goal, i.e. hydrologists may assess a flooding ontology only with maximum flood protection in mind where a politician considers more monetary issues. These different beliefs lead to different interpretations or semantics of the ontology...

in this study, attempts have been made to investigate the self-healing factors in marital conflicts, with an emphasis on the views of ayatollah javadi amoly in anthropology. a holistic approach based on strong points of marriage is better suited to meet different needs of couples, contributing to the resolution of conflicts, as compared to an approach that deals with strengths and self-healing ...