Gains, Losses, and Thresholds of Influence within a Social Network: A Modeling Approach

Abstract

OVERVIEW: (1) Problem Statement; (2) Social Sciences and Network Flows: Initial mappings - Gains, losses, and thresholds - Relationships to network flow formulations; (3) Notional Example: Generalized Network Flow Problem (GFP) - Post-opportunity analyses; (4) Extend previous methodologies to generate and analyze courses of action applied to networks of individuals; (5) Overall goal - 'shaping intentions' through influence - ... in the context of military psychological operations that strive to influence an adversary's "... emotions, motives, reasoning, and ultimately, their behavior..." in order to achieve a given political goal. (JP 3-13, 1998:II-4).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 14, 2005
Accession Number
ADA447917

Entities

People

  • J. T. Hamill
  • Richard F. Deckro
  • Robert S. Renfro Ii
  • Victor D. Wiley

Organizations

  • Air Force Institute of Technology

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Air Force
  • Coefficients
  • Commodities
  • Department Of Defense
  • Information Operations
  • Military Operations
  • Operations Research
  • Organizational Structure
  • Psychological Operations
  • Psychology
  • Social Networks
  • Social Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • United States
  • United States Military Academy

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Organizational Psychology.
  • Strategic Security Studies