On the topology of the dark web of terrorist groups

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3975 LNCS, Issue , 2006, Pages 367-376

  Xu, Jennifer ^a   Chen, Hsinchun ^b   Zhou, Yilu ^b   Qin, Jialun ^b  

^a BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA REDUCTION; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; TOPOLOGY; WEBSITES;

INTER-WEBSITE LINKAGE RELATIONSHIPS; RECRUIT MEMBERS; TERRORIST GROUPS; WEBSITE DATA;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33745874077     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11760146_32     Document Type: Conference Paper

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