Authors:
Carlos Sureda
;
Benoit Gaudou
and
Frederic Amblard
Affiliation:
University of Toulouse, France
Keyword(s):
Network Formation, Cultural Transfer, Social Simulation, Radicalization, Terrorism, Agents.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Artificial Intelligence and Decision Support Systems
;
Bioinformatics
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Distributed and Mobile Software Systems
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Methodologies and Technologies
;
Multi-Agent Systems
;
Operational Research
;
Simulation
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
Understanding how terrorist networks are created and how individuals turn into extremism and then into
terrorism is a current subject of interest and a cross-domain research problem since it involves scholars from
political sciences, sociology, physics and computer scientists among others. In this paper, an agent-based
approach is used to simulate the process of radicalization and creation of a terrorist network, and the link
between both processes. Each citizen has several attributes allowing the model to take into account
heterogeneous profiles of individual. Furthermore, we model the social transfer that takes place during the
interaction of individuals in order to understand how cultural ideas are transmitted. This paper also provides
a non-exhaustive but detailed survey of the state of the art on the agent-based terrorist networks modelling.