Computational Methods for Counterterrorism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Argamon, Shlomo. (Editor), Howard, Newton. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Data protection.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval systems.; Text processing (Computer science.; Criminology.; Computer Science.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Systems and Data Security.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Document Preparation and Text Processing.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Computers and Society.
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Modern terrorist networks pose an unprecedented threat to international security. Their fluid and non-hierarchical structures, their religious and ideological motivations, and their predominantly non-territorial objectives all radically complicate the question of how to neutralize them. As governmen...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword, James A. Hendler. Preface
• Part I: Information Access. 1) On Searching in the Real World . 2) Signature-Based Retrieval of Scanned Documents Using Conditional Random Fields. 3) What Makes a Good Summary? 4) A Prototype Search Toolkit
• Part II: Text Analysis. 5) Unapparent Information Revelation: Text Mining for Counterterrorism. 6) Identification of Sensitive Unclassified Information. 7) Rich Language Analysis for Counterterrorism
• Part III: Graphical Models. 8) Dicliques: Finding Needles in Haysticks. 9) Information Superiority via Formal Concept Analysis. 10) Reflexive Analysis of Groups. 11) Evaluating Self-Reflexion Analysis Using Repertory Grids
• Part IV: Conflict Analysis. 12) Anticipating Terrorist Safe Havens from Instability Induced Conflict. 13) Applied Counterfactual Reasoning. 14) Adversarial Planning in Networks. 15) Gaming and Simulating Ethno-Political Conflicts
• Index.