Gang rivalry dynamics via coupled point process networks

Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1459-1477

  Short, M B ^a   Mohler, G O ^b   Brantingham, P J ^c   Tita, G E ^d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Crime modeling; Network dynamics; Point processes; Stochastic dynamical systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902179347     PISSN: 15313492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3934/dcdsb.2014.19.1459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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