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Though Duvalier Is Gone, Haiti Still Needs Help
In Haiti, as in many deeply troubled places, it was comforting to identify the national demons with one man, and to assume that his destruction would bring theirs. But three months have passed since the former President, Jean-Claude Duvalier, boarded a waiting United States Air Force jet and flew off to an opulent exile in France, and it has become sadly clear that building the ''new Haiti'' will be a slow and painful process - and one that the United States can do little to influence. Mr. Duvalier has been brought down, but the forces that produced him remain strong in Haiti, for what has come to be called, mistakenly, ''the revolution'' has as yet done little to alter them. Mr. Duvalier and his father, Francois ''Papa Doc'' Duvalier, were only the latest and worst of a lineage of rapacious men. For a century and a half, Government in Haiti meant little more than a mechanism to channel the country's wealth and resources from the masses in the countryside to a tiny group of privileged in the cities, and politics was confined to struggles among them. It is not for the United States to build a new Haiti, but we can help the interim Government by making it absolutely clear that we would oppose any Duvalierist effort to regain power. The United States justified its long support for Mr. Duvalier on the grounds that he provided ''stability,'' but if the events that brought him down prove anything, it is that stability through repression is no longer possible in Haiti. A right-wing coup would probably bring on the very bloodbath that his departure was meant to avert.
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Artificial intelligence methods in software testing
An inadequate infrastructure for software testing is causing major losses to the world economy. The characteristics of software quality problems are quite similar to other tasks successfully tackled by artificial intelligence techniques. The aims of this book are to present state-of-the-art applications of artificial intelligence and data mining methods to quality assurance of complex software systems, and to encourage further research in this important and challenging area.
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Web Intelligence and Security
Terrorists are continuously learning to utilize the Internet as an accessible and cost-effective information infrastructure. Since a constant manual monitoring of terrorist-generated multilingual web content is not a feasible task, automated Web Intelligence and Web Mining methods are indispensable for efficiently securing the Web against its misuse by terrorists and other dangerous criminals. Web Intelligence and Security contains chapters by the key speakers of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Web Intelligence and Security that took place on November 18-20, 2009 in Ein-Bokek, Israel. This Workshop has brought together a multinational group of leading scientists and practitioners interested in exploiting data and text mining techniques for countering terrorist activities on the Web. Most talks were focused on presenting available methods and tools that can alleviate the information overload of intelligence and security experts. The key features of this book include: An up-to-date analysis of the current and future threats of the Internet misuse by terrorists and other malicious elements including cyberterrorism, terror financing and interactive online communication by terrorists and their supporters; Detailed presentation of the state-of-the-art algorithms and tools aimed at detecting and monitoring malicious online activities on the Web; Introduction of novel data mining and text mining methods that can be used to efficiently analyze the massive amounts of multi-lingual Web content; The book's wide audience includes research scientists, graduate students, intelligence analysts, and data / text mining practitioners.
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Data mining in time series databases
Adding the time dimension to real-world databases produces Time Series Databases (TSDB) and introduces new aspects and difficulties to data mining and knowledge discovery. This book covers the state-of-the-art methodology for mining time series databases. The novel data mining methods presented in the book include techniques for efficient segmentation, indexing, and classification of noisy and dynamic time series. A graph-based method for anomaly detection in time series is described and the book also studies the implications of a novel and potentially useful representation of time series as strings. The problem of detecting changes in data mining models that are induced from temporal databases is additionally discussed.
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MIDEAST IMPERATIVE: LIVE TOGETHER
Jew and Arab live more separated today than they did in 1936. Back then the two communities were far more integrated. Jews lived next to Arabs. Arabs had Jewish friends. Talk of a binational pluralistic state shared by two ethnic groups was not only acceptable but was championed by major personalities. Neither Jew nor Arab was demonized by the other. Extremists were isolated by both communities. But 50 years and six wars later, the separation is far more severe. An entire generation has matured with the mentality of conqueror and oppressed. The cultural and psychological divisions are far more pronounced. Few Arabs or Jews have real friends on the other side. Few Arabs or Jews ever cross over, except in uniform. The world of the camps, just commuting distance from Israeli cities, is unknown and deeply threatening to Israelis. And the life of the Jews is impenetrably different for Arabs who are required by law to leave Jewish areas come sundown. Whatever happens in the coming weeks, this modern revolt of Palestinians really means that both the Israelis and the Arabs of Palestine have reached another historic moment of decision. Unless both sides soon find the political wisdom to turn toward each other, they are likely to grow still further apart. In such further separation both parties will continue to radicalize and grow away from the ideas of compromise, which have dominated political thinking during the last two decades, toward aspirations of eventual triumph and revenge.
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