Information evaluation /

"Spanning the approaches offered by philosophy, military intelligence, algorithmics and information science, this book presents the concepts of information and the confidence placed in it, the methods that militaries, the first to be aware of the need, have or should have adopted, tools to help...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Capet, Philippe, Delvallade, Thomas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : ISTE, Ltd. ; [2014]
Hoboken : Wiley, [2014]
Series:Information systems, web and pervasive computing series.
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Information: philosophical analysis and strategic applications
  • Epistemic trust
  • The fundamentals of intelligence
  • Information evaluation in the military domain: doctrines, practices and shortcomings
  • Multidimensional approach to reliability evaluation of information sources
  • Uncertainty of an event and its markers in natural language processing
  • Quantitative information evaluation: modeling and experimental evaluation
  • When reported information is second hand
  • An architecture for the evolution of trust : definition and impact of the necessary dimensions of opinion making.