Computational social network modeling of terrorist recruitment.

Berry, Nina M. ; Turnley, Jessica Glicken (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM) ; Smrcka, Julianne D. (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM) ; Ko, Teresa H. ; Moy, Timothy David (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM) ; Wu, Benjamin C.

Sandia National Laboratories

关键词: Application Software.;    National Security Application Software.;    Social Networks-History.;    Simulation;    Terrorism-Simulation Methods.;   

DOI  :  10.2172/919633
RP-ID  :  SAND2004-4853
RP-ID  :  AC04-94AL85000
RP-ID  :  919633

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来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The Seldon terrorist model represents a multi-disciplinary approach to developing organization software for the study of terrorist recruitment and group formation. The need to incorporate aspects of social science added a significant contribution to the vision of the resulting Seldon toolkit. The unique addition of and abstract agent category provided a means for capturing social concepts like cliques, mosque, etc. in a manner that represents their social conceptualization and not simply as a physical or economical institution. This paper provides an overview of the Seldon terrorist model developed to study the formation of cliques, which are used as the major recruitment entity for terrorist organizations.