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Facebook for terrorists: System finds hidden network connections by Doug
Page, Homeland1, December 10, 2009.
A novel approach to analyzing social networks may one day help homeland
security investigators discover the hidden connections between people involved
in terror attacks. The method, reported by Japanese researchers in the
current issue of the International Journal of Services Sciences, involves
uncovering the nodes that act as connecting hubs in a terrorist network
and tracing back to individual members.
Examining Social Networking For Terrorists To Find People Behind Terrorist
Attacks, ScienceDaily, May 5, 2009.
A new approach to analyzing social networks, reported in the current issue
of the International Journal of Services Sciences, could help homeland
security find the covert connections between the people behind terrorist
attacks. The approach involves revealing the nodes that act as hubs in
a terrorist network and tracing back to individual planners and perpetrators.
Event
December 2012
Dr. Yoshiharu Maeno presented a poster about a change point detection technique
for a multi-dimensional time series dataset on the number of cases in the
SARS epidemic in 2003 and the swine flu pandemic in 2009 at the 2nd Workshop for the study of complex fluctuation analysis (複雑系ゆらぎデータの分析と制御Ⅱ：超多自由度非定常系へのアプローチ), which was held at Meiji University (明治大学) in Tokyo (東京), Japan.
November 2012
Dr. Yoshiharu Maeno talked about the comparison of the stability of financial
systems in Japan, the United States, and the United Kingdom from the point
of view of the diversity and risk exposure of the investments which banks
make at the 9th SIG-FIN (ファイナンスにおける人工知能応用研究会), which was held at Keio University (慶應大学) in Yokohama (横浜), Japan.
September 2012
Dr. Yoshiharu Maeno talked about the risk of the collapse of a worldwide financial system from the point of view of the impact of a heterogeneous bank credit network and a strengthened equity capital ratio on the stability of a financial system and related topics at the 4th World Congress on Social Simulation and the 1st Asia-Pacific Econophysics
Conference, which were held at National Chengchi University (國立政治大學) in Taipei (台北),
ROC.
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