Computational Methods for Counterterrorism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Argamon, Shlomo (Editor), Howard, Newton (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer security.; Data mining.; Information storage and retrieval.; Text processing (Computer science).; Computers and civilization.; 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.

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:

• I Information Access
• On Searching in the #x201C;Real World#x201D;
• Signature-Based Retrieval of Scanned Documents Using Conditional Random Fields
• What Makes a Good Summary?
• A Prototype Search Toolkit
• II Text Analysis
• Unapparent Information Revelation: Text Mining for Counterterrorism
• Identification of Information
• Rich Language Analysis for Counterterrorism
• III Graphical Models
• Dicliques: Finding Needles in Haystacks
• Information Superiority via Formal Concept Analysis
• Reflexive Analysis of Groups
• Evaluating Self-Reflexion Analysis Using Repertory Grids
• IV Conflict Analysis
• Anticipating Terrorist Safe Havens from Instability Induced Conflict
• Applied Counterfactual Reasoning
• Adversarial Planning in Networks
• Gaming and Simulating Ethno-Political Conflicts.