Representing and Visualizing Physical, Virtual and Hybrid Information Spaces

Batty, Michael; Miller, Harvey J.

doi:10.1007/978-3-662-04027-0_8

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“…The main goal of this research is to construct a methodology that advances the knowledge of sociospatial network analysis applied to terrorist networks. Social networks exist and operate in geographical space, where individuals interact (Batty and Miller 2000, Yu and Shaw 2008). The virtual networks creating ‘cyberspace’ have produced an environment that allows social interactions at any distance.…”

Section: A Sociospatial Methodology For the Study Of Global Terrorimentioning

confidence: 99%

Advancing the Understanding of Sociospatial Dependencies in Terrorist Networks

Medina

Hepner

2011

Transactions in GIS

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Terrorist networks operate in hybrid space where activities in social and geographic spaces are necessary for logistics and security. The Islamist terrorist network is analyzed as a sociospatial system using social network analysis, Geographic Information Science (GISc), and novel techniques designed for hybrid space analyses. This research focuses on identifying distance and sociospatial dependencies within the terrorist network. A methodology for analyzing sociospatial systems is developed and results lead to a greater understanding of terrorist network structures and activities. Distance and sociospatial dependencies are shown to exist for the Islamist terrorist network structure. These findings are discordant with recent literature that focuses on terrorist network tendencies toward decentralization in the information age. In this research, the Islamist terrorist network is theorized to use multiple structures of hierarchical and decentralized organization for effectiveness, efficiency, and resilience. Implications for counterterrorism policy and strategies are given.

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Section: A Sociospatial Methodology For the Study Of Global Terrorimentioning

confidence: 99%

Advancing the Understanding of Sociospatial Dependencies in Terrorist Networks

Medina

Hepner

2011

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“…In this study, we use physical activities and virtual activities for activities conducted in physical and virtual spaces, respectively. Batty and Miller (2000) argued that physical and virtual spaces share intersections; research has also shown that activities in physical space and virtual space can influence one another (Salomon 1986, Shen 1998. Although tele-presence reduces the significance of distance in activity participations, physical space still controls where an individual can access virtual space, since the access to virtual space is not ubiquitous in physical space yet.…”

Section: Physical Space Vs Virtual Space and Physical Activity Vs Vmentioning

confidence: 96%

Exploring potential human activities in physical and virtual spaces: a spatio‐temporal GIS approach

Shaw

2008

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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Today, the opportunity for potential human activity has gone beyond physical space to virtual space. Based on a proposed conceptual framework that models the relationships between physical and virtual spaces, this paper presents an attempt to adjust the space-time prism concept of Hä gerstrand's time geography to identify potential activity opportunities in virtual space, focusing on the virtual space access channels available in physical space. A three-dimensional (3D) spatio-temporal Geographic Information System (GIS) design has been developed in this research to accommodate the adjusted space-time prism concept to support the representation, visualization, and analysis of potential human activities and interactions in physical and virtual spaces using the prism representation. Following the design, a prototype system has been successfully implemented in a 3D GIS environment. Such a system can provide powerful analytical tools for studies related to potential human activities and applications such as locationbased services (LBS) and accessibility analysis in the information age.

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“…However, studies are still trying to explore of the cybercrime space model. In Britain, Germany and United States, the IP spatial database has been applied in practice including seeking clues and tracking suspects [10][11][12][13][14][15].…”

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The design of cybercrime spatial analysis system

Xiu

2014

2014 4th IEEE International Conference on Information Science and Technology

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Artificial monitoring is no longer able to match the rapid growth of cybercrime, it is in great need to develop a new spatial analysis technology which allows emergency events to get rapidly and accurately locked in real environment, furthermore, to establish correlative analysis model for cybercrime prevention strategy. On the other hand, Geography information system has been changed virtually in data structure, coordinate system and analysis model due to the "uncertainty and hyper-dimension" characteristics of network object and behavior. In this paper, the spatial rules of typical cybercrime are explored on base of GIS with Internet searching and IP tracking technology: (1) Setup spatial database through IP searching based on criminal evidence. (2)Extend GIS data-structure and spatial models, add network dimension and virtual attribution to realize dynamic connection between cyber and real space. (3)Design cybercrime monitoring and prevention system to discover the cyberspace logics based on spatial analysis.

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Representing and Visualizing Physical, Virtual and Hybrid Information Spaces

Cited by 29 publications

References 19 publications

Advancing the Understanding of Sociospatial Dependencies in Terrorist Networks

Advancing the Understanding of Sociospatial Dependencies in Terrorist Networks

Exploring potential human activities in physical and virtual spaces: a spatio‐temporal GIS approach

The design of cybercrime spatial analysis system

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