Computational Modelling and Simulation of Core- Periphery Terrorist Network

Terrorism and terrorist organizations are becoming more vulnerable nowadays. Understanding the terrorism and the organizational structures of terrorist networks are most important to devise successful defensive strategies against the terrorist activities. Terrorist organizational network is a real world complex system which is the association of numerous entities and has significant structural features . Core-Periphery terrorist network structure is one type of terrorist organizational structure which favours when the network members are very few to achieve the task. This paper presents Core-Periphery Terrorist Network (CoPTeN) model to synthetically simulate the coreperiphery terrorist network structure based mainly on the preferential growth feature of complex networks. The structural characteristics of this model were analysed and discussed elaborately. As this model simulates the CorePeriphery terrorist network structures with imprecise inputs, it can help the anti-terrorism agencies by giving more insight into the structure of terrorist network to develop effective dismantling strategies against terrorist networks.