Determining Critical Members of Layered Operational Terrorist Networks

The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 97-109

  Geffre, Jennifer L ^a   Deckro, Richard F ^a   Knighton, Shane A ^a  

^a AIR FORCE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

event tree; social network; terrorism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84993661191     PISSN: 15485129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1548512909348383     Document Type: Article

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