Modeling and Analysis of Clandestine Networks (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781288334117)

Since Sept. 11, 2001, there has been great interest in the military and intelligence communities in using Social Network Analysis (SNA) to support the disruption and destruction of global terrorist networks. SNA results, however, tend to be descriptive and are limited due to the lack of advantageous properties of the relationship measures applied to the arcs in a social network. Further, SNA techniques generally focus on a single network context while real relationships are based in multiple contexts. This thesis develops a new proxy measure of pair-wise potential influence between members of a network, a Holistic Interpersonal Influence Measure (HIIM). The HIIM considers the topology of the multiple formal and informal networks to which group members belong as well as non-network characteristics such as age and education level that may indicate potential influence.

Author: Clinton R. Clark
ISBN-10: 1288334117
ISBN-13: 9781288334117
Publisher: Biblioscholar
Language: English
Published: 11/21/2012
Pages: 230
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.48d