Are global terrorist attacks time-correlated?

L Telesca, M Lovallo - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2006 - Elsevier
Is there any kind of “memory” in the sequence of terror attacks worldwide? Are the terrorist
attacks non-randomly time distributed? Our analysis suggests that they are correlated, which …

Terrorist critical infrastructures, organizational capacity and security risk

C Zoli, LJ Steinberg, M Grabowski, M Hermann - Safety science, 2018 - Elsevier
This essay addresses gaps between studies of terrorism and infrastructure resilience to
explore “terrorist critical infrastructures”(TCIs) as one critically missing framework to …

Communities being well for family well-being: Exploring the socio-ecological determinants of well-being in an Inuit community of Northern Quebec

SL Fraser, V Parent, V Dupere - Transcultural Psychiatry, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Inuit communities of Canada experience many disparities in health and psychosocial
context. Research in community psychology has shown associations between such socio …

Simple biophysical model of tumor evasion from immune system control

A d'Onofrio, A Ciancio - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2011 - APS
The competitive nonlinear interplay between a tumor and the host's immune system is not
only very complex but is also time-changing. A fundamental aspect of this issue is the ability …

Complex systems studies and terrorism

C Mesjasz - … : Countering terrorism, insurgency, ethnic and regional …, 2015 - Springer
Although terrorism has been present in social life for decades, only after the World Trade
Center attacks of September 11, 2001, did the topic gain new significance as a sociopolitical …

The need for general adaptive capacity—Discussing resilience with complex adaptive systems theory

B Scharte - Risk Analysis, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of resilience intrinsically links with both complexity and adaptive capacity.
Scholars from different fields agree on this. Still, the detailed relations between resilience …

Identification of risk factors generating terrorism in Pakistan

MSA Malik, M Sandholzer, MZ Khan… - Terrorism and Political …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Terrorism is a complex issue and various researchers have identified numerous causes and
conditions that generate or are capable of generating terrorism. In the last decade, terrorist …

The Stackelberg differential game for counter-terrorism

AEMA Megahed - Quality & Quantity, 2019 - Springer
The Stackelberg approach of the differential game is important to fight terrorism, that is
through government tasks such as education improvement, solving the unemployment …

Optimization method in counter terrorism: min-max zero-sum differential game approach

AEMA Megahed, EA Youness… - … Algebra, Control and …, 2023 - aimsciences.org
One of the most critical problems facing governments at present is terrorism. Most recent
studies are striving to find an optimal solution to this problem that threatens the security and …

Scale invariance in the 2003–2005 Iraq conflict

J Alvarez-Ramirez, E Rodriguez, R Urrea - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics …, 2007 - Elsevier
The number of reported social systems that apparently display power-law correlations (ie,
scale-free patterns) has increased dramatically in recent years, ranging from city growth and …