In this talk I will present the University of Arizona Artificial Intelligence Lab’s recent research in Dark Web, Geopolitical Web, and Business Analytics. Based on funding from the NSF and several other US agencies, the AI Lab has developed techniques for collecting, managing and analyzing largescale multilingual and multimedia social media contents of relevance to social, geopolitical, and bus...

This article intends to clarify views regarding important challenges that have originated from the political, social, cultural and geopolitical structures in the elections systems of Persian Gulf Arab countries. Challenges that determine the compatibility levels of elections systems of these countries with the world’s democratic systems. An efficient elections system is the prerequisite for the...

To meet the needs for large-scale, high-quality learning contents, needless to say, we have to sharpen authoring tools. Authoring process can be roughly divided into two phases, a composing phase and a verification phase. A great deal of effort has been made on the support in the former phase. What seems to be lacking, however, is that in the latter. An ontology-aware authoring tool we have bee...

The main objective of the article is to examine the challenges of EU Studies in the South Caucasus in accordance with in the process of European integration as exiting political and geopolitical strategies of the region can be considered as the platform and a kind or “need assessment” for the development and successful implementation of the EU Studies. A particular attention is paid to the obje...

Ontology authoring is a non-trivial task for authors who are not proficient in logic. It is difficult to either specify the requirements for an ontology, or test their satisfaction. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address this problem by leveraging the ideas of competency questions and test-before software development. We first analyse real-world competency questions collected fro...

Abstract The theory of strategic trade policy came into being in the early 1980s. It addressed question how a country can increase its own economic welfare through state intervention case oligopolistic world markets. Today, there are many reasons that justify government foreign trade: Cluster risks importing raw materials and intermediate inputs, different responses to negative externalities gr...