Security Informatics and Terrorism

by Gal, Cecilia S.; Kantor, Paul B.; Shapira, Bracha

• ISBN13: 9781586038489
• ISBN10: 1586038486
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-15
• Publisher: Ios Pr Inc

Summary

This work is intended to be of interest to counter-terrorism experts and professionals, to academic researchers in information systems, computer science, political science and public policy, and to graduate students in these areas. The goal of this book is to highlight several aspects of patrolling the Web that were raised and discussed by experts from different disciplines. The book includes academic studies from related technical fields, namely, computer science and information technology, the strategic point of view as presented by intelligence experts, and finally the practical point of view by experts from related industry describing lessons learned from practical efforts to tackle these problems. This volume is organized into four major parts: definition and analysis of the subject, data-mining techniques for terrorism informatics, other theoretical methods to detect terrorists on the Web, and practical relevant industrial experience on patrolling the Web.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction
The Social and Political Environment
The Internet and Terrorism	p. 3
Understanding International "Cyberterrorism": A Law Enforcement Perspective	p. 8
Global Threats - Local Challenges. Current Issues of Intelligence Tasking and Coordination in the Rapidly Changing Threat Environment	p. 17
Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism as a New Security Threat	p. 20
The Enemy Within: Where Are the Islamist/Jihadist Websites Hosted, and What Can Be Done About It?	p. 26
Discovering Hidden Patterns of Activity
Mining Users' Web Navigation Patterns and Predicting Their Next Step	p. 45
Data Mining for Security and Crime Detection	p. 56
Enhancement to the Advanced Terrorist Detection System (ATDS)	p. 71
Discovering Hidden Groups in Communication Networks	p. 82
Knowledge Discovery in Texts and Images
Authorship Attribution in Law Enforcement Scenarios	p. 111
Bayesian Models, Prior Knowledge, and Data Fusion for Monitoring Messages and Identifying Actors	p. 120
Entity and Relation Extraction in Texts with Semi-Supervised Extensions	p. 132
Data Compression Models for Prediction and Classification	p. 142
Security Informatics in Complex Documents	p. 156
Visual Recognition: How Can We Learn Complex Models?	p. 166
Approaches for Learning Classifiers of Drifting Concepts	p. 176
Some Contemporary Technologies and Applications
Techno-Intelligence Signatures Analysis	p. 193
Web Harvesting Intelligent Anti-Terror System - Technology and Methodology	p. 202
How to Protect Critical Infrastructure from Cyber-Terrorist Attacks	p. 224
Conference Participants	p. 233
Author Index	p. 237
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