Recognising ignorance in decision‐making

Security Decisionmaking in Iran

Decisionmaking for Defense

Defense is, for all nations, at the heart of national security. All nations face a common set of choices—what decisions must be made, who will make them, how resources will be allocated, and what investments will be made. At one level up, nations have to decide what principles and style of decisionmaking are appropriate for them, and, importantly, what structure will govern the process of defen...

Time Frame of Decisionmaking

As envisioned and implemented so far, the enlargement process is long-term and has neither milestones nor deadlines for completion. It is an open process that in principle does not reject beforehand the membership of any European country (as stipulated in Article 10 of the Washington Treaty). Since early 1994, NATO has committed itself to a gradual and transparent process of enlargement, althou...

Recognising Randomness

THE concept of randomness is something we all think we understand, but to provide an acceptable definition is by no means straightforward. To us it is more of an intuition and we all know that intuition can let us down! In a recent interesting article Chatterjee (1996) discussed the difficulties encountered when considering randomness, which has its echoes in a project undertaken by the author ...

Recognising Panoramas

The problem considered in this paper is the fully automatic construction of panoramas. Fundamentally, this problem requires recognition, as we need to know which parts of the panorama join up. Previous approaches have used human input or restrictions on the image sequence for the matching step. In this work we use object recognition techniques based on invariant local features to select matchin...