Hierarchical Social Networks: Can A Math Model Of "Seepage" Clobber Terrorism?

Terror networks are comparable in their structure to hierarchical organization in companies and certain online social networks, say the authors of a paper outlining how a mathematical model to disrupt flow of information in a complex real-world network, like a terrorist organization, can work, using minimal resources.  In those hierarchical social networks, information flows in one direction from a source, which produces the information or data, downwards to sinks, which consume it.  read more

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