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  title info:
    title: Conflict and Complexity
    sub title: Countering Terrorism, Insurgency, Ethnic and Regional Violence
  name:
    name part: Fellman, Philip Vos.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Bar-Yam, Yaneer.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Minai, Ali A.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: X, 292 p. 68 illus., 57 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Complexity science affords a number of novel tools for examining terrorism, particularly network analysis and NK-Boolean fitness landscapes as well as other tools drawn from non-linear dynamical systems modeling. This book follows the methodologies of complex adaptive systems research in their application to addressing the problems of terrorism, specifically terrorist networks, their structure and various methods of mapping and interdicting them as well as exploring the complex landscape of network-centric and irregular warfare. A variety of new models and approaches are presented here, including Dynamic Network Analysis, DIME/PMESII models, percolation models and emergent models of insurgency. In addition, the analysis is informed by practical experience, with analytical and policy guidance from authors who have served within the U.S. Department of Defense, the British Ministry of Defence as well as those who have served in a civilian capacity as advisors on terrorism and counter-terrorism.
  table of contents: Preface -- Part I: The Theoretical Background -- Modeling Terrorist Networks: The Second Decade -- Complex Systems Studies and Terrorism -- The Psychology of Terrorism -- A Framework for Agent-based Social Simulations of Social Identity Dynamics -- DIME/PMESII Models -- Net-Centric Logistics: Complex systems science aims at moving targets -- Part II: Applications and Case Studies -- A Fractal Concept of War -- Disrupting Terrorist Networks, A Dynamic Fitness Landscape Approach -- Comparison of approaches for adversary modeling decision support for counterterrorism -- The Landscape of Maritime Piracy and the Limits of Statistical Prediction -- Identities, Anonymity and Information Warfare -- Part II: Broader Horizons -- The Geography of Ethnic Violence -- Food Security and Political Instability: From Ethanol and Speculation to Riots and Revolutions -- South African Riots: Repercussion of the Global Food Crisis and US drought -- Conflict in Yemen: From Ethnic Fighting to Food Riots -- Complexity and the Limits of Revolution: What Will Happen to the Arab Spring?.
  note: edited by Philip Vos Fellman, Yaneer Bar-Yam, Ali A. Minai.
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Application software
  subject:
    topic: System safety
  subject:
    topic: Complexity, Computational
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Complex Networks
  subject:
    topic: Methodology of the Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Complexity
  subject:
    topic: Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Security Science and Technology
  classification: QC1-QC999
  classification: 621
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Understanding Complex Systems
  identifier: 9781493917051
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1705-1
  record info:
    record creation date: 141209
    record change date: 20151029211851.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4939-1705-1