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Table 3 Actionable intelligence products provided through social network analysis of information

From: Federated databases and actionable intelligence: using social network analysis to disrupt transnational wildlife trafficking criminal networks

Product

Action

List of players who have high network centrality values

Remove all of these players from the network

Recommended sequence of players to remove

Remove these players in the recommended order

Prediction of players most likely to succeed removed players

Increase surveillance on potential successors

Prediction of influential players who are attempting to conceal themselves

Increase surveillance on these players as they are often highly influential and the sole connection to other networks

Predictions of rising stars

Increase surveillance on these increasingly influential players

Network resilience index value

Increase frequency of removals if this index is high

  1. We also provide examples of response actions.