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Book Effective Multinational C2  Five Essential Variables

Download or read book Effective Multinational C2 Five Essential Variables written by MAJ Jon E., Jon Baker, US Army and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-09-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United States armed forces have historically fought alongside allied forces, and are currently engaged in several multinational operations around the world. Most, if not all, future U.S. military peacekeeping, combat, or stability operations will continue to consist of multinational structures commonly known as coalitions or alliances. The inherent complexity of creating an effective multinational Command and Control (C2) structure, comprised of different countries and operating under unfamiliar C2 structures, creates tension in achieving unity of effort, unity of command and unity of action towards subsequent mission accomplishment. Historically this tension has revolved around the issue of multinational C2. Differences in national interests, culture, and incompatibilities in operating procedures, technologies, training and operational capabilities add to the tension posed by multinational operations. Fortunately, U.S. Joint, U.S. service, and NATO doctrine, as well as history, provide useful guidelines to ameliorate the tension posed by multinational differences and incompatibilities towards effective multinational C2. A synthesis of the doctrinal foundations of C2 and four historic multinational operations, namely World War I, World War II, the Persian Gulf War, and ISAF, led to the identification of five essential variables that must be addressed and implemented in order to establish effective multinational C2. These variables are the need for establishing unity of purpose through international legitimacy; the need for an integrated multinational command structure in achieving unity of command; the need for an educated human equation; the need for multinational training; and the need for interoperable Communications and Information Systems (CIS) in exercising effective multinational C2. If these five variables are not adequately addressed, then effective multinational C2 will be difficult to achieve. The five essential variables are summarized as follows: (1) There is a need for establishing unity of purpose through international legitimacy. This is achieved through gaining the support of an internationally recognized civil authority in order to avoid unilateral action. Unity of purpose further facilitates the generation of unified goals amongst the participants; (2) Unity of command must be established by appointing a single multinational commander with overall responsibility for the mission. This is further enhanced through an integrated multinational staff and headquarters C2 structure. Through inclusion, the multinational commander is able to garner a better understanding of participating nations' interests, capabilities, and nuances; (3) There must be an educated human equation present to develop respect, rapport, and cultural understanding at all levels within the multinational force. Human equations encompass those characteristics that multinational commanders and staffs must display to build a cohesive multinational force; (4) Multinational training contributes to building an understanding of potential alliance or coalition partners' capabilities, strengths, and challenges. Multinational training exercises should be conducted during peacetime, but should continue after deployment, especially when working with nations that do not habitually participate in multinational training venues; (5) There must be an interoperable Communications and Information Systems (CIS) architecture established within the multinational operation. An interoperable CIS facilitates C2 through the establishment of compatible procedures and equipment which leads to effective information flow within the multinational force.

Book Youth Gangs in International Perspective

Download or read book Youth Gangs in International Perspective written by Finn-Aage Esbensen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a steady source of juvenile delinquents and an incubator for future adult offenders, the youth gang has long been a focus of attention, from their origins and prevalence to intervention and prevention strategies. But while delinquent youth form gangs worldwide, youth gang research has generally focused on the U.S. Youth Gangs in International Perspective provides a needed corrective by offering significant studies from across Europe, as well as Trinidad-Tobago and Israel. The book spans the diversity of the field in the cultural and scholarly traditions represented and methods used, analyzing not only the social processes under which gangs operate and cohere, but also the evolution of the research base, starting with the Eurogang Program’s definition of the term youth gang. Cross-national and gender issues are discussed, as are measurement concerns and the possibility that the American conception of the youth gang is impeding European understanding of these groups. Among the topics covered: Gang dynamics through the lens of social identity theory. Defining gangs in youth correctional settings. Gang gender composition and youth delinquency. From Stockholm: a holistic approach to gang intervention. Gang membership as a turning point in the life course. The impact of globalization, immigration, and social process on neo-Nazi youth gangs. Filling a critical gap in the literature, Youth Gangs in International Perspective will find a wide audience among criminologists, policymakers specializing in youth crime, and researchers and graduate students in criminology, political science, and youth studies.

Book 14th International Conference on Theory and Application of Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing     ICAFS 2020

Download or read book 14th International Conference on Theory and Application of Fuzzy Systems and Soft Computing ICAFS 2020 written by Rafik A. Aliev and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-01-04 with total page 850 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Applications of Fuzzy Systems, Soft Computing, and Artificial Intelligence Tools, ICAFS-2020, held in Budva, Montenegro, on August 27–28, 2020. It includes contributions from diverse areas of fuzzy systems, soft computing, AI tools such as uncertain computation, decision making under imperfect information, deep learning and others. The topics of the papers include theory and application of soft computing, neuro-fuzzy technology, intelligent control, deep learning–machine learning, fuzzy logic in data analytics, evolutionary computing, fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence in engineering, social sciences, business, economics, material sciences and others.

Book Joint Mission Essential Task List  JMETL  Development Handbook

Download or read book Joint Mission Essential Task List JMETL Development Handbook written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The process of JMETL development involves the examination of the missions of a combatant commander, subordinate joint force commander, and functional or Service component commanders in order to establish required warfighting capabilities consisting of joint tasks, conditions, and standards. This handbook is intended to assist the combatant commands describe required capabilities in a form useful in the planning, execution and assessment phases of the joint training system. Further, it should aid resource providers and the Joint Staff in examining and coordinating joint training requirements among a number of combatant commands with diverse missions. The next phase of the joint training system begins with the development of a joint training plan delineating how combatant commanders allocate their joint training resources to meet JMETL requirements.

Book Deterministic Global Optimization

Download or read book Deterministic Global Optimization written by Christodoulos A. Floudas and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The vast majority of important applications in science, engineering and applied science are characterized by the existence of multiple minima and maxima, as well as first, second and higher order saddle points. The area of Deterministic Global Optimization introduces theoretical, algorithmic and computational ad vances that (i) address the computation and characterization of global minima and maxima, (ii) determine valid lower and upper bounds on the global minima and maxima, and (iii) address the enclosure of all solutions of nonlinear con strained systems of equations. Global optimization applications are widespread in all disciplines and they range from atomistic or molecular level to process and product level representations. The primary goal of this book is three fold : first, to introduce the reader to the basics of deterministic global optimization; second, to present important theoretical and algorithmic advances for several classes of mathematical prob lems that include biconvex and bilinear; problems, signomial problems, general twice differentiable nonlinear problems, mixed integer nonlinear problems, and the enclosure of all solutions of nonlinear constrained systems of equations; and third, to tie the theory and methods together with a variety of important applications.

Book Basic Global Relative Invariants for Nonlinear Differential Equations

Download or read book Basic Global Relative Invariants for Nonlinear Differential Equations written by Roger Chalkley and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of deducing the basic relative invariants possessed by monic homogeneous linear differential equations of order $m$ was initiated in 1879 with Edmund Laguerre's success for the special case $m = 3$. It was solved in number 744 of the Memoirs of the AMS (March 2002), by a procedure that explicitly constructs, for any $m \geq3$, each of the $m - 2$ basic relative invariants. During that 123-year time span, only a few results were published about the basic relative invariants for other classes of ordinary differential equations. With respect to any fixed integer $\, m \geq 1$, the author begins by explicitly specifying the basic relative invariants for the class $\, \mathcal{C {m,2 $ that contains equations like $Q {m = 0$ in which $Q {m $ is a quadratic form in $y(z), \, \dots, \, y{(m) (z)$ having meromorphic coefficients written symmetrically and the coefficient of $\bigl( y{(m) (z) \bigr){2 $ is $1$.Then, in terms of any fixed positive integers $m$ and $n$, the author explicitly specifies the basic relative invariants for the class $\, \mathcal{C {m, n $ that contains equations like $H {m, n = 0$ in which $H {m, n $ is an $n$th-degree form in $y(z), \, \dots, \, y{(m) (z)$ having meromorphic coefficients written symmetrically and the coefficient of $\bigl( y{(m) (z) \bigr){n $ is $1$.These results enable the author to obtain the basic relative invariants for additional classes of ordinary differential equa

Book Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design

Download or read book Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design written by Alan J. Hu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-01-18 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are the proceedings of the fifth international conference, Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD), held 15-17 November 2004 in Austin, Texas, USA. The conference provides a forum for presenting state-of-the-art tools, methods, algorithms, and theory for the application of formalized reasoning to all aspects of computer-aided system design, including specification, verification, synthesis, and testing. FMCAD's heritage dates back 20 years to some of the earliest conferences on the subject of formal reasoning and computer-aided design. Since 1996,FMCAD has assumed its present form, held biennially in North America, alternating with its sister conference CHARME in Europe. We are delighted to report that our research community continues to flourish: we received 69 paper submissions, with many more high-quality papers than we had room to accept. After a rigorous review process, in which each paper received at least three, and typically four or more, independent reviews, we accepted 29 papers for the conference and inclusion in this volume. The conference also included invited talks from Greg Spirakis of Intel Corporation and Wayne Wolf of Princeton University. A conference of this size requires the contributions of numerous people. On the technical side, we are grateful to the program committee and the additional reviewers for their countless hours reviewing submissions and ensuring the intellectual quality of the conference. We would also like to thank the steering committee for their wisdom and guidance. On the logistical side, we thank Christa Mace for designing our website and attending to countless organizational tasks. And we thank our corporate sponsors - AMD, IBM, Intel, and Synopsys - for financial support that helped make this conference possible.

Book An Efficient Optimal Solution Method for Neutrosophic Transport Models  Analysis  Improvements  and Examples

Download or read book An Efficient Optimal Solution Method for Neutrosophic Transport Models Analysis Improvements and Examples written by Maissam Jdid and published by Infinite Study. This book was released on with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transport issues aim to determine the number of units that will be transferred from the production centers to consumption areas so that the cost of transportation is as low as possible, taking into account the conditions of supply and demand. Due to the great importance of these issues and to obtain more accurate results that take into account all circumstances, we conducted two research studies. In the first research, we presented a formulation of neutrosophic transport issues, and in the second research, we presented some ways to find a preliminary solution to these issues, but we do not know whether the preliminary solution is optimal or not, so we will present in this research a study whose purpose is to shed light on some important methods used to improve the optimal solution to transportation issues and then reformulating them using the concepts of neutrosophic science, a science that leaves nothing to chance or circumstances but rather provides solutions with neutrosophic values. Unspecified values take into account the best and worst conditions.

Book High Energy Physics  Ichep 2000   Proceedings Of The 30th International Conference  In 2 Volumes

Download or read book High Energy Physics Ichep 2000 Proceedings Of The 30th International Conference In 2 Volumes written by Chong-sa Lim and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2001-04-30 with total page 1550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents topics of major interest to the high energy physics community, as well as recent research results.

Book Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Download or read book Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence written by International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1985 with total page 1368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Effective Utilization and Management of Emerging Information Technologies

Download or read book Effective Utilization and Management of Emerging Information Technologies written by Information Resources Management Association. International Conference and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technological advances of the past decades have allowed organizations of all sizes to use information technology in all aspects of organizational management. This book presents more than 200 papers that address this growing corporate phenomena.

Book 16th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering and 9th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering

Download or read book 16th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering and 9th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering written by Wolfgang Marquardt and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2006-08-02 with total page 1127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This proceedings book contains the papers presented at the joint conference event of the 9th Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (PSE'2006) and the 16th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (ESCAPE-16), held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, from July 9 – July 13, 2006. The symposium follows the first joint event PSE’97 / ESCAPE-7 in Trondheim, Norway (1997). The last two venues of the ESCAPE symposia were Barcelona, Spain (2005) and Lisbon, Portugal (2004) and the most recent PSE symposia were held in Kunming, China (2003) and Keystone, Colorado, USA (2000). The purpose of both series is to bring together the international community of researchers engineers who are interested in computing-based methods in process engineering. The main objective of the symposium is to review and present the latest developments and current state in Process Systems Engineering and Computer Aided Process Engineering. The focus of PSE’2006 / ESCAPE-16 has been on Modelling and Numerical Methods, Product and Process Design, Operations and Control, Biological Systems, Infrastructure Systems, and Business decision support. * reviews and presents the latest developments and current state of Process Systems Engineering and Computer Aided Process Engineering * contains papers presented at a joint conference event * bringing together an international community of researchers and engineers interested in computing-based methods in Process Engineering

Book Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence

Download or read book Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence written by Ron van der Meyden and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents revised versions of selected papers from the 6th Workshop on Model Checking and Artificial Intelligence, MoChArt 2010, held in Atlanta, GA, USA in July 2010, as well as papers contributed subsequent to the workshop. The 7 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in this book. In addition, the book also contains an extended abstract of the invited talk held at the workshop. The topics covered by these papers are general search algorithms, application of AI techniques to automated program verification, multiagent systems and epistemic logic, abstraction, epistemic model checking, and theory of model checking.

Book 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering  15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering

Download or read book 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering 15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering written by Flavio Manenti and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2024-06-28 with total page 3634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering / 15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering, contains the papers presented at the 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering / 15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering joint event. It is a valuable resource for chemical engineers, chemical process engineers, researchers in industry and academia, students, and consultants for chemical industries. Presents findings and discussions from the 34th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering / 15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering joint event

Book Computational Intelligence In Decision And Control   Proceedings Of The 8th International Flins Conference

Download or read book Computational Intelligence In Decision And Control Proceedings Of The 8th International Flins Conference written by Da Ruan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2008-08-08 with total page 1201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FLINS, originally an acronym for Fuzzy Logic and Intelligent Technologies in Nuclear Science, is now extended to Computational Intelligence for applied research. The contributions to the eighth edition in the series of FLINS conferences cover state-of-the-art research, development, and technology for computational intelligence systems in general, and for intelligent decision and control in particular.

Book Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet  Education and Information Technology  IEIT 2023

Download or read book Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internet Education and Information Technology IEIT 2023 written by Dhananjay Kumar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 1409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an open access book. The 3rd International Conference on Internet, Education and Information Technology (IEIT 2023) was held on April 28–30, 2023 at the Xiamen, China. With the development of science and technology, information technology and information resources should be actively developed and fully applied in all fields of education and teaching, so as to promote the modernization of education and cultivate talents to meet the needs of society. From the technical point of view, the basic characteristics of educational informatization are digitalization, networking, intelligentization and multi-media. From the perspective of education, the basic characteristics of educational information are openness, sharing, interaction and cooperation. With the advantage of the network, it can provide students with a large amount of information and knowledge by combining different knowledge and information from various aspects in a high frequency. Therefore, we have intensified efforts to reform the traditional teaching methods and set up a new teaching concept, from the interaction between teachers and students in the past to the sharing between students. In short, it forms a sharing learning mode. For all students, strive to achieve students' learning independence, initiative and creativity. To sum up, we will provide a quick exchange platform between education and information technology, so that more scholars in related fields can share and exchange new ideas. The 3rd International Conference on Internet, Education and Information Technology (IEIT 2023) was held on April 28-30, 2023 in Xiamen, China. IEIT 2023 is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Internet, Education and Information Technology to a common forum. The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in Internet, Education and Information Technology and another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working all around the world. The conference will be held every year to make it an ideal platform for people to share views and experiences in international conference on Internet, Education and Information Technology and related areas.

Book The Macroeconomics of Corruption

Download or read book The Macroeconomics of Corruption written by Maksym Ivanyna and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook examines corruption through a macroeconomic lens, exploring the relationship between corruption, fiscal policy, and political economy. It merges macroeconomic growth models with elements of political economic theory to address important applied topics such as income inequality within and across countries, growth slowdowns, and fiscal crises. Revised and updated to include new research findings and recent policy discussions, the second edition contains 15 new sections and 2 new chapters on topics such as public defaults, the wage elasticity of work and the interest elasticity of saving, and the economic and fiscal impact of the 2020 pandemic. Most of the basic ideas are illustrated using a two-period model of government investment that captures the future cost of policies that favor the present. The more subtle and advanced issues are illustrated and, in some cases, quantified, using the overlapping-generations model of economic growth. The models used to illustrate the mechanisms of economic growth are extended to incorporate politics and the behavior of public official. The text concludes with a thorough discussion of policy reforms designed to address the issues discussed in earlier chapters. Intended for students familiar with intermediate-level economics, the second edition contains a technical appendix, expanded end-of-chapter questions and problems, and a complete solutions manual. The second edition also offers updated resources for instructors, including sample syllabi and over 550 multiple choice questions. Offering a unified explanation for the causes and consequences of government failure, fiscal crisis, and needed policy reforms, this text is appropriate for advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate courses in macroeconomics, political economy, and public policy.