TY - JOUR
T1 - Evaluating counter-IED strategies
AU - Weiss, Lora
AU - Whitaker, Elizabeth
AU - Briscoe, Erica
AU - Trewhitt, Ethan
N1 - Funding Information:
1. This research was funded under an award from the Office of Naval Research, Contract # N00014081-0481, and we would like to acknowledge them for their support.We would like to thank our collaborator at the University of Hull (Caroline Kennedy-Pipe) for providing us access to subject matter experts and for providing insight into some of the behaviors and processes associated with perpetration of IEDs.
PY - 2011/6
Y1 - 2011/6
N2 - Improvised explosive devices (IED) are one of the largest threats facing coalition forces in current military conflicts. The United States and other nations are greatly invested in mitigating these deadly devices. By integrating behavioral aspects of adversarial activities with computational methods, a greater understanding of these activities can be attained; simultaneously, potentially effective intervention points can be ascertained. The specific modeling approach discussed in this article is the result of a coupling between computational and social science research that has led to an improved capability to predict large-scale activities and behaviors of potential IED developers before they have successfully deployed IEDs. System dynamics models were applied to evaluate IED processes as a comprehensive system with various interacting influences. A system dynamics model is an executable model used to represent and understand the dynamic behavior of a complex system over time.
AB - Improvised explosive devices (IED) are one of the largest threats facing coalition forces in current military conflicts. The United States and other nations are greatly invested in mitigating these deadly devices. By integrating behavioral aspects of adversarial activities with computational methods, a greater understanding of these activities can be attained; simultaneously, potentially effective intervention points can be ascertained. The specific modeling approach discussed in this article is the result of a coupling between computational and social science research that has led to an improved capability to predict large-scale activities and behaviors of potential IED developers before they have successfully deployed IEDs. System dynamics models were applied to evaluate IED processes as a comprehensive system with various interacting influences. A system dynamics model is an executable model used to represent and understand the dynamic behavior of a complex system over time.
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U2 - 10.1080/14751798.2011.578717
DO - 10.1080/14751798.2011.578717
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:79960547372
SN - 1475-1798
VL - 27
SP - 135
EP - 147
JO - Defense and Security Analysis
JF - Defense and Security Analysis
IS - 2
ER -