Reshaping terrorist networks

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 60-69

  Spezzano, Francesca ^a   Subrahmanian, V S ^a   Mannes, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

NETWORK STRUCTURES; NOVEL ALGORITHM; OPERATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS; TERRORIST NETWORKS; TERRORIST ORGANIZATION; UNDIRECTED GRAPH;

TERRORISM;

EID: 84905251002     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2632661.2632664     Document Type: Article

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