Geographical influences of an emerging network of gang rivalries

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 390, Issue 21-22, 2011, Pages 3894-3914

  Hegemann, Rachel A ^a   Smith, Laura M ^a   Barbaro, Alethea B T ^a   Bertozzi, Andrea L ^a   Reid, Shannon E ^b   Tita, George E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b 2309 Social Ecology II   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based model; Biased L vy walk; Complex system; Dynamic network; Gang rivalry; Geographical Threshold Graph

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GRAPH THEORY; LARGE SCALE SYSTEMS; SIMULATION PLATFORM;

AGENT-BASED MODEL; BEHAVIORAL DYNAMICS; DYNAMIC NETWORK; EVOLVING NETWORKS; GANG RIVALRY; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; LOS ANGELES; THRESHOLD GRAPHS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS;

EID: 80054915268     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.05.040     Document Type: Article

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