Scaling property and opinion model for interevent time of terrorism attack

Autor:	Zhu, Jun-Fang, Han, Xiao-Pu, Wang, Bing-Hong
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Physics - Physics and Society
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	The interevent time of terrorism attack events is investigated by empirical data and model analysis. Empirical evidence shows it follows a scale-free property. In order to understand the dynamic mechanism of such statistic feature, an opinion dynamic model with memory effect is proposed on a two-dimension lattice network. The model mainly highlights the role of individual social conformity and self-affirmation psychology. An attack event occurs when the order parameter of the system reaches a critical value. Ultimately, the model reproduces the same statistical property as the empirical data and gives a good understanding of terrorism attack. Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/0910.3985 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv