The Complexity of Terrorist Networks

Fellman, Philip V.

doi:10.1109/iv.2008.107

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“…Fellman [144] examined terrorist networks through SNA, agent-based simulation, and NK-Boolean fitness landscapes. The author studied the 11 September 2001 network [83], which embodies some of the emergent properties of terrorist networks such as centrality, distance, and hierarchy.…”

Section: Node Removal In Terrorist Networkmentioning

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Covert Network Construction, Disruption, and Resilience: A Survey

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Covert networks refer to criminal organizations that operate outside the boundaries of the law; they can be mainly classified as terrorist networks and criminal networks. We consider how Social Network Analysis (SNA) is used to analyze such networks in order to attain a greater knowledge of criminal behavior. In fact, SNA allows examining the network structure and functioning by computing relevant metrics and parameters to identify roles, positions, features, and other network functioning that are not otherwise easily discovered at first glance. This is why Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) are showing growing interest in SNA, which is also used to identify weak spots and disrupt criminal groups. This paper provides a literature review and a classification of methods and real-case applications of disruption techniques. It considers covert network adaptability to such dismantling attempts, herein referred to as resilience. Critical problems of SNA in criminal studies are discussed, including data collection techniques and the inevitable incompleteness and biases of real-world datasets, with the aim of promoting a new research stream for both dismantling techniques and data collection issues.

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Section: Node Removal In Terrorist Networkmentioning

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Covert Network Construction, Disruption, and Resilience: A Survey

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“…with respect to the Iraqi insurgency. 16 This was not so much a methodological divide, as discussed above, as a basic policy divide, as well as a basic difference over a fundamental interpretation of the facts (for example, the misconception that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the events of 9/11). Even using a very simple regression methodology to cover the quantitative aspects of the confl ict, Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies compiled an overwhelming amount of material documenting the causes, nature, and implications of this divide.…”

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“…4 At the same time, military intelligence professionals were frequently confronted by inadequate intelligence in the fi eld, whether tactical intelligence at the company level or strategic intelligence at the division level. 5 To go back to our work of a decade ago, while many principles remain the same, the evolution of computational systems and computational power has given us the ability to model many aspects of terrorism with an accuracy and scope impossible 10 years ago.…”

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Modeling Terrorist Networks: The Second Decade

Fellman

2015

Understanding Complex Systems

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“…These authors all rely on modeling to prove their points. More recent modeling approaches are presented by Fellman, et al (2007) and Fellman (2011a;2011b), who use fitness landscapes to demonstrate how optimal decision-making in terrorist networks can be countered by dividing the network in separate compartments. The model presented by Ghemawat & Levinthal (2000) is used, unaltered, as the source for this.…”

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The evolution of Wright’s (1932) adaptive field to contemporary interpretations and uses of fitness landscapes in the social sciences

Gerrits

Marks

2014

Biol Philos

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The working paper features an extended literature overview of the ways in which fitness landscapes have been interpreted and used in the social sciences, for which there was not enough space in the full article. The article features an in-depth philosophical discussion about the added value of the various ways in which fitness landscapes are used in the social sciences. This discussion is absent in the current working paper.

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The Complexity of Terrorist Networks

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Covert Network Construction, Disruption, and Resilience: A Survey

Covert Network Construction, Disruption, and Resilience: A Survey

Modeling Terrorist Networks: The Second Decade

The evolution of Wright’s (1932) adaptive field to contemporary interpretations and uses of fitness landscapes in the social sciences

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