Integrated Series in Information Systems: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security

Chen, Hsinchun; Reid, Edna; Sinai, Joshua; Silke, Andrew; Ganor, Boaz

Terrorism informatics has been defined as the application of advanced methodologies, information fusion and analysis techniques to acquire, integrate process, analyze, and manage the diversity of terrorism-related information for international and homeland security-related applications. The variety of methods used in terrorism informatics are derived from Computer Science, Informatics, Statistics, Mathematics, Linguistics, Social Sciences, and Public Policy and they involve the collection of a mass of information from multiple sources and in numerous languages.

TERRORISM INFORMATICS: Knowledge Management and Data Mining for Homeland Security will provide an interdisciplinary and comprehensive survey of the state-of-the-art of terrorism informatics domain along three basic dimensions: methodological issues in terrorism research; information infusion techniques to support terrorism prevention, detection, and response; and legal, social, privacy, and data confidentiality challenges and approaches.

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Published by: Springer

Publication Date: 2008-07-02

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780387716121

DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-71613-8

Dimensions: 235cm x155cm

Pages: 558