Security Informatics and Terrorism: Patrolling the Web

Cecilia S. Gal, Paul B. Kantor

ISBN 10: 1586038486 / ISBN 13: 9781586038489

Editore: IOS Press, NL, 2008

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. Codice articolo LU-9781586038489

Riassunto:

The editors (of Rutgers U. in the United States and Ben-Gurion U. of the Negev in Israel) present 19 papers from a June 2007 conference that brought computer scientists together with scholars of intelligence and terrorism to discuss issues connected to the detection and prevention of terrorist use of the World Wide Web. Opening papers discuss the causes and impacts of terrorist use of the Web, cybercrime and cyberterrorism as security threat, and related issues. The next set of papers discusses data mining issues, including the characterization of Web users' navigation patterns and discovery of groups in communication networks. Knowledge discovery in texts and images is then explored in chapters that address authorship attribution in law enforcement scenarios; Bayesian models, prior knowledge, and data fusion for monitoring messages and identifying actors; entity and relation extraction in texts with semi-supervised extensions; data compression models for prediction and classification; security informatics in complex documents; visual recognition; and approaches for learning classifiers of drifting concepts. The remaining papers are on techno- intelligence signatures analysis, a Web harvesting intelligent anti- terror system, and the protection of critical infrastructure from cyber-terrorist attacks. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Product Description: Book by Cecilia S Gal

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Titolo: Security Informatics and Terrorism: ...
Casa editrice: IOS Press, NL
Data di pubblicazione: 2008
Legatura: Hardback
Condizione: New
Edizione: Illustrated.