ABSTRACT
Models and techniques developed in artificial intelligence (AI) have been applied to a wide variety of topics in international relations (IR). This chapter discusses the impact of AI models on mathematical modeling in IR. It provides specific examples of AI models in the modeling enterprise in international relations, along with considerable bibliographic guidance to those applications. Researchers in AI may be mathematicians or mechanics, linguists or librarians, psychologists or programmers. As Yale AI guru Roger Schank notes Most practitioners would agree on two main goals in AI. IR/AI uses only a small subset of the total set of techniques available in AI. The chapter provides an overview of the three major research focuses in IR/ AI: rule-based models, precedent-based models, and natural language analysis. An attractive feature of AI is the relative ease with which natural language in limited domains can be handled.
