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Friday, December 11, 2009
Mathematical models key to tracking gossip, terrorists - PhysOrg.com
Mathematical models key to tracking gossip, terrorists (PhysOrg.com) -- Thanks to the Internet and online social networks (OSNs) news and gossip now spread literally like wildfire -- uncontrollably and seemingly without any order. But according to one Ryerson researcher, there is method to the madness. With the right mathematical model, you could spot when and where a story starts, then watch as it skips across the Internet. One day, similar models could even detect and track terrorist cells within OSNs.
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