DARPA Ensemble-Based Modeling Large Graphs & Applications to Social Networks

Abstract

Economies, social and political systems all exist embedded within complex and dynamic networks. Understanding the network landscape is a critical necessity for winning conflicts and securing global safety, peace and stability. It helps prevent surprises and provides both a tactical and a strategic upper hand in our interactions both with our allies and our adversaries. Understanding complex networks requires the development of reliable mathematical and computational tools that efficiently probe the data and extract the relevant information. This is a very difficult undertaking and it requires marshaling methods from traditionally disparate areas, including graph theory (discrete mathematics), statistical physics, statistics, theoretical computer science, algorithm development, and data mining in a sustained fashion. This project has been developing mathematical and computational methods pushing the state of the art in data driven modeling of complex networks. The algorithms and the methods developed here have been validated against real-world network datasets.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 29, 2015
Accession Number
ADA627064

Entities

People

  • Zoltán Toroczkai

Organizations

  • University of Notre Dame

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Complex Systems
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Experimental Design
  • Graph Theory
  • Information Science
  • Load Monitoring
  • Mobile Phones
  • Network Science
  • Predictive Modeling
  • Probabilistic Models
  • Social Networks
  • Theoretical Computer Science

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML