Power and Responsibility in Chinese Foreign Policy

The People’s Republic of China is now over fifty years old. Long considered an outsider, or a club of one, in international relations, China has recently become more active in international institutions. Is China becoming a responsible power in global and regional international relations? How accurate is the traditional perception of China? What factors may be motivating the changes in China’s approach to international institutions and its perceptions of its own role in the world? There is no certainty that China is becoming a more responsible power, recent developments may be just another manifestation of realpolitik. Power and Responsibility in Chinese Foreign Policy provides a vital insight into these issues, analysing the critical issues in China’s international relations– China’s regional and global diplomatic and security problems, the changing role of the People’s Liberation Army, human rights, religious and democratic movements, and the concept of responsibility. Power and Responsibility in Chinese Foreign Policy is an insightful and vital introduction to all sides of the current debate over China’s international relations

Prediction of Gas Consumption in Transportation Based on Grey System Theory

Prediction of gasoline consumption in transportation accurately has important reference value for the scientific planning and decision making on the energy needs and environmental protection. For the lack of historical data of gasoline consumption in transportation, a grey gas consumption prediction model is built based on grey system modeling and the analysis of degree of grey incidence and residual. Contrastive analysis of specific value of the variance and small error probability of a case study with accuracy grades indicated that the gray gas consumption prediction model is fitting precisely and reliable

Online Customer Service System Using Hybrid Model

In a traditional customer service support environment, service engineers typically provide a worldwide customer base support through the use of telephone calls. Such a mode of support is inefficient, ineffective and generally results in high costs, long service cycles, and poor quality of service. The rapid growth of the World Wide Web and Intelligent Agent technology, with its widespread acceptance and accessibility, have resulted in the emergence of Web-based and AI Agent-based systems. Depending on the functionality provided by such systems, most of the associated disadvantages of the traditional customer service support environment can be eliminated. This paper describes a framework for Web-based and AI Agent-based online customer service support system, and discusses the method to use Rough Set Theory and Neural Network Theory to support intelligent fault diagnosis by customers or service engineers

The Curious Case of 'Schools' of IR:From the Sociology to the Geopolitics of Knowledge

Abstract This article interrogates the questions evoked by the curious case of ‘schools’ of thought in International Relations (IR) through the twin perspectives of the sociology of knowledge and geopolitics of knowledge. Drawing inspirations from the tradition of the sociology of IR pioneered by E. H. Carr, the paper first explores how geo-epistemic diversity can help understand the sociologically problematic nature of IR knowledge production in the existing discipline. Taking cues from Randall Collins’s sociology of philosophies, the article moves to identify four clusters of sociological conditions and dynamics that, we argue, facilitate the formation and sustain the operation of schools of thought in IR. Taking seriously the recent insight from geopolitics of knowledge, the article then looks at why and how school labelling constitutes a battleground for contestation and legitimation of knowledge. While the ‘core’ uses the school label to create a parallel, and explicitly inferior, universe of knowledge production to localize theoretical noises from the peripheries, the school label, we argue, has been proactively appropriated by those at peripheries and semi-peripheries for three strategic purposes: to engage in a purposely contentious politics, to question the claim of the American ‘core’ as the creator, depositor, and distributor of universal knowledge, and to unveil the geo-historical linkage between the political and the epistemic. School labelling matters, we further argue, because it has become a site of contestation of geopolitics of knowledge and reflects the perils and promises in our collective pursuit of constructing a truly global IR.</jats:p