http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/sep06/4424
Harry Goldstein
"New simulators could help intelligence analysts think like the enemy.
“There are tools where they build a world in a bottle. They put down every single mosque, river, camel, and school in, say, Saudi Arabia. Then they have millions of software agents who each have desires, grievances, all these different variables. They go about their little lives and then you ask a question: What if we build a McDonald’s in Mecca? Does this lead to more people joining terrorist groups or not?” [5 pages]
