摘要：In the age of globalization and information, terrorist groups cooperate and interact with each other frequently and have formed a complex and dynamic system. For the purpose to explore the evolutionary dynamics of transnational terrorism, the paper mapped location-based networks to model the terrorism system, followed with preference attachment model to discover laws that how terrorism developed. The work gave an outline about how terrorist groups evolved and explained how terrorism would develop and expand. The findings would supply significant suggestion to counterterrorism organizations.
