Disrupting Terrorist Networks: A Dynamic Fitness Landscape Approach

Modeling Terrorist Networks: The Second Decade

“…In this regard, the emergence of complex adaptive systems research may be the end point of what Edward O. Wilson described in Sociobiology as the difference between the "advocacy" method and the hypothetical-deductive scientifi c method. 7 In a practical sense, it is diffi cult to explain the methods of disrupting terrorists networks based on their positioning on a dynamic fi tness landscape 8 to an audience which has never heard of that particular representation of evolutionary dynamics. 9 So, curiously enough, while a decade later we have emerged with a new and powerful toolbox, those tools themselves have introduced a new kind of problem which was not really present a decade ago.…”