This document was prepared by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) under IDA’s independent research program. The objective of this report is twofold: to document key notions and ideas that collectively comprise what is known as meme theoryor memetics – an emerging area of research for potential applicability in the defense, homeland security, and intelligence arenas – and to introduce, as a platform for developing mathematical models in memetics, existing classes of mathematical models for growth, survival, and the dynamics of biological systems.
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This document was prepared by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) under IDA’s independent research program. The objective of this report is twofold: to document key notions and ideas that collectively comprise what is known as meme theoryor memetics – an emerging area of research for potential applicability in the defense, homeland security, and intelligence arenas – and to introduce, as a platform for developing mathematical models in memetics, existing classes of mathematical models for growth, survival, and the dynamics of biological systems.