When: Monday, May 10, 1:30 p.m.

Where: 4623 Wean Hall

Kathleen Carley, Professor, Institute for Software Research International

lSRI Seminar Series

Abstract:
After 9/11 it became very fashionable to think of terrorists groups as social networks - reflecting the social and communication ties among the terrorists. Such an approach, however, tempting, is not 100% suited to the type of available data; nor, does it facilitate reasoning about change in a way that supports effects based operations. In this talk, an approach that combines social network analysis, link-analysis, organizational theorizing and multi-agent simulation is presented. Then, this approach is applied to two open-source data sets to demonstrate the types of results and predictions possible.

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