
398 Analyzing and Securing Social Networks
i. Demographics-based score computation
InXite predicts and aggregates user-related attributes such as age, location, and religion.
Using existing studies on terrorists such as the one by Marc Sageman (2004), InXite deter-
mines if the POI ts the prole of a terrorist or not.
Example: If (age between 22 and 35) AND (education = college) AND (ethnicity =
Arab) → high score
ii. Psychological score computation
For calculating the psychological scores, we design algorithms that analyze the lan-
guage used by the POI; in particular, we look at the adjectives and the nouns, to come up
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