Optimization-based influencing of village social networks in a counterinsurgency

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

Volumn 6589 LNCS, Issue , 2011, Pages 10-17

  Hung, Benjamin W K ^a   Kolitz, Stephan E ^b   Ozdaglar, Asuman ^c  

^a UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY   (United States)

^b CHARLES STARK DRAPER LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

agent modeling; counterinsurgency; network optimization; social network

Indexed keywords

AFGHANISTAN; AGENT MODELING; ARITHMETIC MEAN; ASSIGNMENT PROBLEMS; COUNTERINSURGENCY; LARGE NETWORKS; NETWORK OPTIMIZATION; NONLETHAL; OPTIMIZATION FORMULATIONS; OPTIMIZATION MODELS; RANDOM METHODS; SOCIAL INFLUENCE MODEL; SOCIAL NETWORKS;

OPTIMIZATION;

NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING;

EID: 79952401425     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19656-0_3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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