Ethics of quantification or quantification of ethics?
In: Futures, Band 116, S. 102509
In: Futures, Band 116, S. 102509
In: Cooperation and conflict: journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 195
ISSN: 0010-8367
In: Cooperation and conflict: journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 195-210
ISSN: 1460-3691
In: Historical Social Research, Band 37, Heft 4, S. 55-63
"Analyzing social processes of quantification has close relationship with the origins, core and potentialities of the economics of convention. Quantification and its social organization and goals are now impacted by the turn toward the market for organizing all human activities. Research should focus on the relationship between generalizing the market, transforming the state and changing the rote and status of quantification. Retracing the main outcomes of the seminal works on quantification, this paper highlights the contributions that EC could provide in that field." (author's abstract)
In recent years there has been a growing interest in text quantification, a supervised learning task where the goal is to accurately estimate, in an unlabelled set of items, the prevalence (or "relative frequency") of each class c in a predefined set C. Text quantification has several applications, and is a dominant concern in fields such as market research, the social sciences, political science, and epidemiology. In this paper we tackle, for the first time, the problem of ordinal text quantification, defined as the task of performing text quantification when a total order is defined on the set of classes; estimating the prevalence of "five stars" reviews in a set of reviews of a given product, and monitoring this prevalence across time, is an example application. We present OQT, a novel tree-based OQ algorithm, and discuss experimental results obtained on a dataset of tweets classified according to sentiment strength.
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In: Annual Review of Law & Social Science, Band 3
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In: World Economy and International Relations, Heft 12, S. 85-94
In: Polity, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 457-480
ISSN: 1744-1684
In: Journal of political & military sociology, Band 1, Heft 1, S. 121-146
ISSN: 0047-2697
In: Theory and Decision Library C; Uncertainty and Risk, S. 41-59
The need for a target vulnerability quantification process arises from the U.S. Navys requirement to develop defensive systems to defend civilian and military assets around the world. The systems engineering approach has been applied to improve an existing process that takes too long to perform. The functions to perform the vulnerability assessment are identified, and an automated process incorporating current off-the-shelf technologies is discussed. The operational requirements, maintenance concept, and functional analysis are presented for the automated vulnerability quantification process. A conceptual design is then outlined for the system elements. A cost comparison between the current system and the automated system is calculated in the conceptual design. ; Master of Science
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In: Water and environment journal, Band 3, Heft 1, S. 27-30
ISSN: 1747-6593
ABSTRACTSources of both systemic and parameter uncertinties in flood alleviation cost‐benefit analysis are discussed. Cost‐benefit analyses are assessments of the future effects of different scheme options; consequently, there are inherent uncertainties. The omission of consideration of some impacts as 'intangibles', because it has not been possible to measure them, is a form of systemic uncertainty.A significant omission in the past from flood alleviation cost‐benefit analyses has been the non‐monetary impacts of flooding upon households. It is shown that these impacts are both large and more important to the households affected than are the direct monetary losses.
In: Historical Social Research, Band 41, Heft 2, S. 48-71
The article presents the main contributions of the French approach of economics of convention (EC) to the analysis of classifications and quantifications. Here, Alain Desrosières has delivered many outstanding contributions. The article shortly presents the approach of EC. Conventions are socio-cognitive resources actors rely on to achieve shared interpretations, evaluations and valuations of situations and the value of objects, persons and actions. Also, the interpretation of institutions has to apply conventions. Conventions with semantic content and without semantic content are compared, and the different scopes of convention-based coordination (in time and space) are discussed. Also the conception of a political economy of classification and quantification is presented. At the end of the article, a typology of situations of classifications and quantifications is introduced.
In: Journal of policy analysis and management: the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Band 5, Heft 4, S. 807
ISSN: 0276-8739