This paper explores the role of local structural conditions that facilitate or hinder violence when enmity is present between parties. This is illustrated by examining violence among street gangs. Using structural balance theory, the current research investigates whether certain triadic structures in which two rival gangs i and j are related to a third gang with either an ally or rival relation...

Territorial behavior is often found in nature. Coyotes and wolves organize themselves around a den site and mark their territory to distinguish their claimed region. Moorcroft et al. model the formation of territories and spatial distributions of coyote packs and their markings in [33]. We modify this ecological approach to simulate spatial gang dynamics in the Hollenbeck policing division of e...

In this paper we study the performance of parallel job scheduling in a distributed system. A special type of scheduling called gang scheduling is considered. In gang scheduling jobs consist of a number of interacting tasks, which are scheduled to run simultaneously on distinct processors. Two gang scheduling policies are used to schedule parallel jobs for two different types of job parallelism....

Parallel job scheduling is an important problem whose solution may lead to better utilization of modern parallel computers. It is de ned as : Given the aggregate of all tasks of multiple jobs in a parallel system, nd a spatial and temporal allocation to execute all tasks e ciently . For the purposes of scheduling, we view a computer as a queueing system. An arriving job may wait for some time, ...

Despite a small but growing literature on gang disengagement and desistance, little is known about how social networks changes in correspond to self-reported street membership over time. The current study describes the personal or “ego” network composition of 228 members two east coast cities United States. highlights associated with waves survey data, describing notable differences between tho...