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Jillian Scharr<\/strong> When Justin Bieber tweets, 39,361,876 people (and counting) immediately jump to attention. But when one of those nearly 40 million people tweet, does the Beebs see it? Does he react at all?<\/p>\n Communication among terrorist cells works much in the same way as Justin Bieber\u2019s Twitter account, according to mathematicians from Ryerson University in Toronto who have built a mathematical model of the way information spreads through these hierarchical networks. Their approach may give counterterrorism agents insight into terrorism hierarchies and allow them to predict terrorist attacks and sabotage networks before the attack plans can be carried out.<\/p>\n Terrorist networks are often arranged hierarchically, meaning information flows in one direction: top down, from one leader to many followers. This model is called a \u201cdirected network without cycles,\u201d or a \u201cdirected acyclic graph.\u201d [See also: Google Search Algorithm Models Cancer Spread<\/a>]<\/p>\n Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n <!– <\/p>\n –><\/p>\n This article was posted: Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at 4:41 pm<\/p>\n Tags: science<\/a>, technology<\/a>, terrorism<\/a><\/p>\n
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