Wikipedia is a very large and successful Web 2.0 example. As the number of Wikipedia articles and contributors grows at a very fast pace, there are also increasing disputes occurring among the contributors. As a result of disputes, many articles in Wikipedia are controversial. In this project, I propose a supervised learning model using Support Vector Machines (SVMs) to identify controversial a...

Several of the ongoing con icts in South East Asia are internal disputes driven by con icts over revenues from mineral projects. In order to understand these con icts it is necessary to study the sharing arrangements between regions within countries. This paper looks at typical regional wealth-sharing arrangements to determine when such arrangements are likely to break down and when con icts er...