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01-12-2016 | Original Article

Stepping back from the trees to see the forest: a network approach to valuing intelligence

Authors: Christopher M. Smith, William T. Scherer, Andrew Todd

Published in: Social Network Analysis and Mining | Issue 1/2016

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Determining the value of intelligence can be a difficult problem. One way to value intelligence is to judge a document’s worth by its location within a structure of a given corpus of documents. Citation networks and Google’s PageRank algorithm are examples of valuing information based on its location within a structure. Dynamic network analysis (DNA) has been used to allow a multilayered approach to social network analysis by including multi-nodal networks and creating inferences across networks with common nodes. We introduce the application of the DNA layered approach to information networks in an attempt to determine the value of intelligence.
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Metadata
Title
Stepping back from the trees to see the forest: a network approach to valuing intelligence
Authors
Christopher M. Smith
William T. Scherer
Andrew Todd
Publication date
01-12-2016
Publisher
Springer Vienna
Published in
Social Network Analysis and Mining / Issue 1/2016
Print ISSN: 1869-5450
Electronic ISSN: 1869-5469
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-016-0380-7

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