Social network modeling and agent-based simulation in support of crisis de-escalation

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 103-110

  Lanham, Michael J ^a   Morgan, Geoffrey P ^a   Carley, Kathleen M ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Information diffusion; Social network analysis; Text mining

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA MINING; DECISION MAKING;

AGENT BASED SIMULATION; DATA-DRIVEN SIMULATION; INFORMATION DIFFUSION; ITERATIVE REFINEMENT; NETWORK EXTRACTIONS; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; RESOURCE REQUIREMENTS; TEXT MINING;

SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

EID: 84929167917     PISSN: 21682216     EISSN: 21682232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCC.2012.2230255     Document Type: Article

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