Memetics - Overview and Baseline Models

Abstract

This report documents key notions and ideas that collectively comprise what is known as meme theory or memetics - an emerging area of research for potential applicability in defense, homeland security, and intelligence arenas - and introduces existing classes of mathematical models for growth, survival, and the dynamics of biological systems as a platform for developing mathematical models in memetics.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2008
Accession Number
AD1123909

Entities

People

  • Arthur Fries
  • Nozer D. Singpurwalla

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biology
  • Differential Equations
  • Dynamics
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Genes
  • Genetics
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Homeland Security
  • Markov Chains
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematics
  • Models
  • National Security
  • Population Genetics
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Reliability
  • Security
  • Standards
  • Systems Biology
  • Systems Engineering
  • Terrorists

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