Modeling Terrorist / IEEE Spectrum, September 2006

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]