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19 Jul 2013 19:00

Rioting behavior isn't so different from shopping behavior--an insight researchers want to use to keep riots at bay. After riots tore across London in 2011, a team of researchers from University College London began using math to model what happened--and how to predict similar riots in the future. What did they find? Apparently rioting behavior isn't so different from shopping behavior, for one thing. The math itself is complicated--you can check out the team's published papers on the concept he...
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