Tie strength still matters: Investigating interaction patterns of Al-Qaeda network in terror operations

摘要: Terror operations are carried out by a team of terrorists with their interaction and cooperation. Different tie strengths, such as acquaintances, friends, family members, influence the construction reconstruction operation team. Understanding patterns strength might be useful not only for advancing our understanding terror operations, but ultimately providing more effective methods countering terrorist violence. To this end, in paper, we designed an operation-related social network, analyzed selection cooperative reconnection networks. We proposed three hypotheses about strengths had Al-Qaeda dataset investigated to test hypotheses. Results demonstrate that organization has some different against ordinary organizations share similar features crime events rational choice. Our analysis reveals matters is essentially helpful making counterterrorism strategies.