Spatial Decision Support Systems with Automated Machine Learning: A Review

R Wen, S Li - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022 - mdpi.com
Many spatial decision support systems suffer from user adoption issues in practice due to
lack of trust, technical expertise, and resources. Automated machine learning has recently …

Lessons from an escalation prediction competition

H Hegre, P Vesco, M Colaresi - International Interactions, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Recent research on the forecasting of violence has mostly focused on predicting the
presence or absence of conflict in a given location, while much less attention has been paid …

United they stand: Findings from an escalation prediction competition

P Vesco, H Hegre, M Colaresi, RB Jansen… - International …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This article presents results and lessons learned from a prediction competition organized by
ViEWS to improve collective scientific knowledge on forecasting (de-) escalation in Africa …

Collective emotions, triggering events, and self-organization: The forest-fire model of cultural identity conflict escalation

F Schulte, C Trinn - Aggression and Violent Behavior, 2024 - Elsevier
Ethnic and religious conflicts frequently evolve into highly explosive situations marked by the
sudden eruption of conflictive mass behaviour in the form of leaderless protests or riots. In …

Conflict forecasting with event data and spatio-temporal graph convolutional networks

PT Brandt, V D'Orazio, L Khan, YF Li… - International …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores three different model components to improve predictive performance
over the ViEWS benchmark: a class of neural networks that account for spatial and temporal …

Machine Intelligence in Africa: a survey

AA Tapo, A Traoré, S Danioko, H Tembine - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
In the last 5 years, the availability of large audio datasets in African countries has opened
unlimited opportunities to build machine intelligence (MI) technologies that are closer to the …

[HTML][HTML] Spatiotemporal Prediction of Conflict Fatality Risk Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Satellite Imagery

S Goodman, A BenYishay, D Runfola - Remote Sensing, 2024 - mdpi.com
As both satellite imagery and image-based machine learning methods continue to improve
and become more accessible, they are being utilized in an increasing number of sectors and …

Is media sentiment associated with future conflict events?

A Jamison, K Hoelscher, J Miklian… - Authorea …, 2024 - advance.sagepub.com
Is media sentiment a leading indicator of conflict events? Analysis through machine learning
and natural language processing techniques allows us to gather and process sentiment …

[HTML][HTML] Prediction of spatial heterogeneity in nutrient-limited sub-tropical maize yield: Implications for precision management in the eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains

ZU Ahmed, TJ Krupnik, J Timsina, S Islam… - Artificial Intelligence in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge of the factors influencing nutrient-limited subtropical maize yield and
subsequent prediction is crucial for effective nutrient management, maximizing profitability …

High resolution conflict forecasting with spatial convolutions and long short-term memory

BJ Radford - International Interactions, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract The 2020 Violence Early Warning System (ViEWS) Prediction Competition
challenged participants to produce predictive models of violent political conflict at high …