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  title info:
    title: Estimating Impact
    sub title: A Handbook of Computational Methods and Models for Anticipating Economic, Social, Political and Security Effects in International Interventions
  name:
    name part: Kott, Alexander.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Citrenbaum, Gary.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 362 p. online resource.
  abstract: International interventions are among the most controversial and complex of human endeavors. In today's smaller, flatter, and interdependent world, interventions of all sorts - economic sanctions or aid, natural-disaster relief, various diplomatic or civil-military engagements—are likely to persist and to become yet more complex and difficult. The last decade has seen an explosive growth of research on methods and tools, particularly computational tools, for estimating effects of interventions. In ESTIMATING IMPACT Alexander Kott and Gary Citrenbaum, with a stellar group of contributors, offer readers a broad and practical introduction to computational approaches for anticipating effects of interventions. International interventions and estimating effects of such interventions on human, economic, social, and political variables are of critical importance to business analysts and planners as well as to government policy planners and non-governmental humanitarian organizations. In current practice, intervention-related decisions, planning, and effects estimating rely on historical analogies, on qualitative theories, on expert opinions, experience, and intuition. ESTIMATING IMPACT argues for a broader, more balanced view. It describes how emerging computational techniques can help analysts, planners, and decision-makers in a number of ways: estimating the range of likely future conditions, highlighting unwarranted assumptions, generating alternative approaches, elucidating details and uncovering the potential for unanticipated effects. While the field is still very young, the trend is unmistakable: there is a rising recognition that quantitative, computational methods are indispensable elements—although by no means panaceas —for making prudent decisions regarding international interventions.
  table of contents: Introduction: Judgment and Computation -- Emerging Techniques and Tools -- Politics and Power -- Economics and Markets -- Media and Influence -- Governance and Society -- Groups and Violence -- Insurgency and Security -- Crime and Corruption -- Visualization and Comprehension -- Verification and Validation -- Conclusions: Anticipation and Action.
  note: edited by Alexander Kott, Gary Citrenbaum.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Operations research
  subject:
    topic: Decision making
  subject:
    topic: Political science
  subject:
    topic: Application software
  subject:
    topic: Game theory
  subject:
    topic: Applied mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Engineering mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Economic theory
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Political Science
  subject:
    topic: Operation Research/Decision Theory
  subject:
    topic: Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods
  subject:
    topic: Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering
  classification: QA76.76.A65
  classification: 004
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      title: Springer eBooks
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