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.
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.