Illuminating Dark Networks (eBook, ePUB)

The Study of Clandestine Groups and Organizations
Redaktion: Gerdes, Luke M.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Some of the most important international security threats stem from terror groups, criminal enterprises, and other violent non-state actors (VNSAs). Because these groups are often structured as complex, dark networks, analysts have begun to use network science to study them. However, standard network tools were originally developed to examine companies, friendship groups, and other transparent networks. The inherently clandestine nature of dark networks dictates that conventional analytical tools do not always apply. Data on dark networks is incomplete, inaccurate, and often just difficult to find. Moreover, dark networks are often organized to undertake fundamentally different tasks than transparent networks, so resources and information may follow different paths through these two types of organizations. Given the distinctive characteristics of dark networks, unique tools and methods are needed to understand these structures. Illuminating Dark Networks explores the state of the art in methods to study and understand dark networks.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316365878
• Artikelnr.: 53005518

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Luke M. Gerdes; 1. Covert network analysis: an exchange
network theory perspective Elisa Jayne Bienenstock and Michael Salwen; 2.
Dark dimensions: classifying relationships among clandestine actors Luke M.
Gerdes; 3. Disrupting and dismantling dark networks: lessons from social
network analysis and law enforcement simulations David A. Bright; 4. The
methodological challenges of extracting dark networks: minimizing false
positives through ethnography Michael Kenney and Stephen Coulthart; 5.
Detecting dark networks using geo-temporal and pattern based network
analysis techniques Rich La Valley, Abe Usher and Alexander Halman; 6.
LookingGlass: a visual intelligence platform for tracking social movements
Hasan Davulcu and Mark Woodward; 7. Open source exploitation for
understanding covert networks Kathleen M. Carley; 8. Simulating and
analyzing dark networks: modeling and measuring using network tools David
C. Arney, Jocelyn R. Bell, Kathryn A. Coronges and Greg Merkl; 9. Criminal
social network intelligence analysis with the GANG software Paulo
Shakarian, Michael Martin, John Bertetto, Bradley Fischl, Joseph Hannigan,
Guillermo Hernandez, Evan Kenney, Jacob Lademan, Damon Paulo and Christian
Young; 10. A new approach for identification of multiple threat scenarios
to counter CBRN networks Ronald Breiger and Lauren Pinson; 11. Casting more
light on dark networks: a stochastic actor-oriented longitudinal analysis
of the Noordin top terrorist network Daniel Cunningham, Sean F. Everton and
Philip J. Murphy; 12. Generating illicit networks: multi-level agent-based
modeling and network formation rules among extremists Steve Scheinert; 13.
Challenges to understanding covert groups Carl A. B. Pearson, Burton H.
Singer and Edo Airoldi; 14. Dynamic actor-oriented models as a tool for the
analysis of dark networks in a multiply connected actor-oriented
environment Marc Anthony Johnson, Anthony N. Johnson and David C. Arney.