TY - GEN
T1 - On fighting fire with fire
T2 - 9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017
AU - Behzadan, Vahid
AU - Nourmohammadi, Amin
AU - Gunes, Mehmet
AU - Yuksel, Murat
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Association for Computing Machinery.
PY - 2017/7/31
Y1 - 2017/7/31
N2 - Terrorist organizations have social networks that enable them to recruit and operate around the world. This paper presents a novel computational framework for derivation of optimal destabilization strategies against dynamic social networks of terrorists. We develop a game-theoretic model to capture the distributed and complex dynamics of terrorist organizations, and introduce a technique for estimation of such dynamics from incomplete snapshots of target networks. Furthermore, we propose a mechanism for devising the optimal sequence of actions that drive the internal dynamics of targeted organizations towards an arbitrary state of instability. The performance of this framework is evaluated on a model of the Al-Qaeda network in 2001, verifying the efficacy of our proposals for counter-terrorism applications.
AB - Terrorist organizations have social networks that enable them to recruit and operate around the world. This paper presents a novel computational framework for derivation of optimal destabilization strategies against dynamic social networks of terrorists. We develop a game-theoretic model to capture the distributed and complex dynamics of terrorist organizations, and introduce a technique for estimation of such dynamics from incomplete snapshots of target networks. Furthermore, we propose a mechanism for devising the optimal sequence of actions that drive the internal dynamics of targeted organizations towards an arbitrary state of instability. The performance of this framework is evaluated on a model of the Al-Qaeda network in 2001, verifying the efficacy of our proposals for counter-terrorism applications.
KW - Counter terrorism
KW - Dynamic network analysis
KW - Guided self-organization
KW - Network formation game
KW - Reinforcement learning
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U2 - 10.1145/3110025.3119404
DO - 10.1145/3110025.3119404
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85040241500
T3 - Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017
SP - 1120
EP - 1127
BT - Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2017
A2 - Diesner, Jana
A2 - Ferrari, Elena
A2 - Xu, Guandong
Y2 - 31 July 2017 through 3 August 2017
ER -