Measuring link importance in terrorist networks

Proceedings - 2010 International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 225-232

  Wiil, Uffe Kock ^a   Gniadek, Jolanta ^a   Memon, Nasrullah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Crimefighter assistant; Graph theory; Social network analysis; Terrorist network analysis; Transportation networks

Indexed keywords

CRIMEFIGHTER ASSISTANT; GENERALIZED NETWORKS; IMPORTANCE MEASURE; KEY ENTITY; NODES AND LINKS; NOVEL METHODS; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TERRORIST NETWORKS; TRANSPORTATION NETWORK; TRANSPORTATION NETWORKS;

GRAPH THEORY; TERRORISM;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS;

EID: 77958199146     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ASONAM.2010.29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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