H Aliyev: 2 books
The Individual Disengagement of Avengers, Nationalists, and Jihadists
Why Ex-Militants Choose to Abandon Violence in the North Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
Drawing on unique first-hand data from Russia's North Caucasus, this study is the first of its kind to detail the causes and contexts of individual disengagement of various types of militants: avengers, nationalists, and jihadists. It aims to considerably enhance our theoretical understanding of individual militants' incentives to abandon violence.
The Arithmetic of Z-Numbers
Theory and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Real-world information is imperfect and is usually described in natural language (NL). Moreover, this information is often partially reliable and a degree of reliability is also expressed in NL. In view of this, the concept of a Z-number is a more adequate concept for the description of real-world...