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SUBMITTER: Fonoberova M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6173437 | biostudies-literature | 2018
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Fonoberova Maria M Mezić Igor I Mezić Jadranka J Mohr Ryan R
PloS one 20181005 10
The paper investigates the effect of preferential gathering sites on urban insurgency in an agent-based model (ABM). The ABM model was proposed in earlier work and has been validated using FBI data. There is a nonlinear tradeoff between the local density of citizens due to the number of preferential gathering sites and the ability of law enforcement officers (LEOs) to adequately patrol that leads to a non-monotonic behavior in the number of large scale outburst of insurgency with respect to the ...[more]