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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org ***** Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks , TED.com About this talk: Journalist Misha Glenny spent several years in a courageous investigation of organized crime networks worldwide, which have grown to an estimated 15% of the global economy. From the Russian mafia, to giant drug cartels, his sources include not just intelligence and law enforcement officials but criminal insiders. * [9] Misha Glenny investigates global crime networks, Misha Glenny, 2009/09, TED.com * VIDEO - [10] Watch this talk http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/misha_glenny_investigates_global_crime_networks.html --------------- Emergence of heterogeneity and political organization in information exchange networks , arXiv Abstract: We present a simple model of the emergence of the division of labor and the development of a system of resource subsidy from an agent- based model of directed resource production with variable degrees of trust between the agents. The model has three distinct phases, corresponding to different forms of societal organization: disconnected (independent agents), homogeneous cooperative (collective state), and inhomogeneous cooperative (collective state with a leader). Our results indicate that such levels of organization arise generically as a collective effect from interacting agent dynamics, and may have applications in a variety of systems including social insects and microbial communities. * [31] Emergence of heterogeneity and political organization in information exchange networks, Emergence of heterogeneity and political organization in information exchange networks, 2009/11/24, arXiv:0911.4688 [31] http://arXiv.org/abs/0911.4688 Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.insna.org). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.