Research Article

Extracting Skeleton of the Global Terrorism Network Based on m-Modified Topology Potential

Algorithm 2

Pseudocode explaining the TPKS-skeleton network extraction.
Skeleton Network Extraction Model (TPKS-skeleton)
Input Original Network , Similarity Network , nodes in different clusters
Output Skeleton Network
(1)TPKS-skeleton ()
(2) ;
(3) ;
(4)  = max(degree ())
(5) 
(6) 
(7) ;
(8) 
(9)  = merge(, )
(10) 
(11) for each pair of nodes ,
(12)  if no. of edge between then
(13)   map all edges into a single tie
(14)  else
(15)   remain a tie between ()
(16)  end if
(17) until the network is connected
(18) end for
(19) return Skeleton Network