Computational social network modeling of terrorist recruitment.

Technical Report · Fri Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2004

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/919633· OSTI ID:919633

Berry, Nina M; Turnley, Jessica Glicken ^[1]; Smrcka, Julianne D ^[1]; Ko, Teresa H; Moy, Timothy David ^[1]; Wu, Benjamin C

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1. Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM

The Seldon terrorist model represents a multi-disciplinary approach to developing organization software for the study of terrorist recruitment and group formation. The need to incorporate aspects of social science added a significant contribution to the vision of the resulting Seldon toolkit. The unique addition of and abstract agent category provided a means for capturing social concepts like cliques, mosque, etc. in a manner that represents their social conceptualization and not simply as a physical or economical institution. This paper provides an overview of the Seldon terrorist model developed to study the formation of cliques, which are used as the major recruitment entity for terrorist organizations.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 919633
• Report Number(s): SAND2004-4853; TRN: US200825%%361
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

45 MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WEAPONRY, AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
SIMULATION
VISION
NATIONAL SECURITY
Application software.
Social networks-History.
Terrorism-Simulation methods.
Gang members