Overview
- Develops an ontology of modern conflict
- Presents sub-onotologies and their connections to other parts
- Describes the implementation history and changes from earlier versions to the MCO, plus potential future enhancements
Part of the book series: Understanding Complex Systems (UCS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume develops and describes an ontology of modern conflict. Modern conflict is a complex adaptive system. As such, it exhibits emergent properties, or properties that are not predictable from simple descriptions of the system. The Modern Conflict Ontology (MCO) creates a structure for collecting and analyzing information regarding both conventional and unconventional conflict in the face of uncertainty.
The first three chapters of the book begin the discussion of the MCO. The first chapter introduces the foundational concepts. The second chapter discusses modern conflict in detail. The third chapter provides an overview of ontologies in sufficient detail to make the rest of the book understandable, but without covering the minutia of the subject. The next ten chapters describe the parts of the MCO. Each part is a sub-ontology and is discussed in detail, including connections to the other parts. Instances are used very liberally to ensure that the concepts are made concrete. The final chapter consolidates the descriptions of the ontology into a discussion of “what we can know.” It describes the implementation history and changes from the predecessor Unconventional Conflict Ontology (UCO) to the MCO, plus some uses of the ontology and potential future enhancements. Providing an ontology that describes the entire modern conflict domain, this volume is appropriate for military professionals and academics and professionals in political science, computer science, and operations research.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
DEAN S. HARTLEY III is the Principal of Hartley Consulting. He is also the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and Vice President of Sisyphus Energy, Inc. (SEI). Hartley is a past Vice President of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS), a Director of the Military Operations Research Society (MORS), past President of the Military Applications Society (MAS), and a member of the INFORMS Simulation Society (ISIM).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Ontology of Modern Conflict
Book Subtitle: Including Conventional Combat and Unconventional Conflict
Authors: Dean S. Hartley III
Series Title: Understanding Complex Systems
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-53214-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53213-0Published: 11 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-53216-1Published: 11 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-53214-7Published: 10 November 2020
Series ISSN: 1860-0832
Series E-ISSN: 1860-0840
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXV, 445
Number of Illustrations: 23 b/w illustrations, 169 illustrations in colour
Topics: Military and Defence Studies, International Relations, Political Philosophy, Operations Research/Decision Theory