TY - GEN
T1 - Understanding South Asian Violent Extremist Group-group interactions
AU - Skillicorn, D. B.
AU - Spezzano, F.
AU - Subrahmanian, V. S.
AU - Garber, M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2014/10/10
Y1 - 2014/10/10
N2 - The South Asian Violent Extremist Group (SAVE) dataset describes 500 interactions between 30 South Asian terrorist groups over a 20-year period. We analyze 4 types of interactions between these groups (financial, logistical, operational, and political) via 4 network-theoretic techniques: spectral decomposition and Simmelian ties in an undirected version of the network, and PageRank and betweenness centrality on directed versions of the network. We identify the major players in both the provision and the flows through this network for each type of support. Our analysis shows that the five entities most involved in providing and facilitating all forms of support are Al Qaeda, the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Agency, the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
AB - The South Asian Violent Extremist Group (SAVE) dataset describes 500 interactions between 30 South Asian terrorist groups over a 20-year period. We analyze 4 types of interactions between these groups (financial, logistical, operational, and political) via 4 network-theoretic techniques: spectral decomposition and Simmelian ties in an undirected version of the network, and PageRank and betweenness centrality on directed versions of the network. We identify the major players in both the provision and the flows through this network for each type of support. Our analysis shows that the five entities most involved in providing and facilitating all forms of support are Al Qaeda, the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Agency, the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan.
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U2 - 10.1109/ASONAM.2014.6921660
DO - 10.1109/ASONAM.2014.6921660
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84911091260
T3 - ASONAM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
SP - 687
EP - 694
BT - ASONAM 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining
A2 - Wu, Xindong
A2 - Wu, Xindong
A2 - Ester, Martin
A2 - Xu, Guandong
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2014 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, ASONAM 2014
Y2 - 17 August 2014 through 20 August 2014
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