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The below projects are individual projects that I am working on. The themes of the projects have nothing to do with terrorist networks, but these projects use similar methods. [[Hirotoshi Yoshioka]] | |||
Revision as of 16:10, 21 June 2009
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Background
Current US counter-terrorism efforts have either scattered, killed or captured Al-Qaeda's core leadership, reducing the threat from its central core operatives, foot-soldiers and leaders. However, the Jihad-Salafism continues to spread at an exponential rate across various locales, as a result creating subcultures within vulnerable Islamic Diaspora communities. The threat from radicalized Salafist-Jihadists has evolved and has become diasporic (e.g.: Madrid 2004, Amsterdam Hofstad group, London 2005, Toronto 18 Case and Australia's Operation Pendennis) in nature.
The aim of this project is two-fold:
[1] Radicalization process: Recent modeling efforts have focus on strategic measures of controlling terrorism, few have focus primarily on the horizontal process of fanaticism. However, these models fail to incorporate various dynamics (oblique and vertical process of fanaticism). In our project, we model the process of radicalization that includes ideological transmission with differential recruitments.
[2] Control Mechanism: In this project, we hope to develop new kind of control mechanism we have called reactive control. Usually, application of control theory requires one to know the equations representing the system of interest. However, most real world problems, at least the interesting one, do not have any concrete equations. In order to circumvent this problem, we hope to develop a coarse-grained control theory that adaptively adjusts to the mechanism of interests.
The methods we hope to develop and apply are general and can be applied to various disciplines and applications (fads, contagion, control of disease, implementation of robust policy, etc....)
Two Loosely Related Projects
The below projects are individual projects that I am working on. The themes of the projects have nothing to do with terrorist networks, but these projects use similar methods. Hirotoshi Yoshioka