Detecting hidden hierarchy in terrorist networks: Some case studies

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

Volumn 5075 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 477-489

  Memon, Nasrullah ^a,b   Larsen, Henrik Legind ^a   Hicks, David L ^a   Harkiolakis, Nicholas ^b  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b Hellenic American University   (Greece)

Author keywords

Centrality; Destabilizing terrorist networks; Hidden hierarchy; Social network analysis

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GRAPH THEORY; INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; ALGORITHMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

AUTOMATIC METHODS; CASE STUDIES; CENTRALITY MEASURES; HEIDELBERG (CO); INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES; INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS; NOVEL ALGORITHMS; SECURITY INFORMATICS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS (SNA); SPRINGER (CO); TERRORIST EVENTS; TERRORIST NETWORKS;

BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; TERRORISM;

AUTOMATIC METHOD; CENTRALITY; CENTRALITY MEASURES; DETECTING HIDDEN HIERARCHY; HIDDEN HIERARCHY; HIGH VALUE INDIVIDUALS; TERRORIST EVENTS; TERRORIST NETWORKS;

EID: 45849093679     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69304-8_50     Document Type: Conference Paper

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