Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XIII

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2. Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism: Tools and Techniques for a New Challenge

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Mathematical Methods in Counterterrorism: Tools and Techniques for a New Challenge

      • David L. Hicks, Nasrullah Memon, Jonathan D. Farley, Torben Rosenørn

      Pages 1-5

3. Network Analysis

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7

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   2. Modeling Criminal Activity in Urban Landscapes

      • Patricia Brantingham, Uwe Glässer, Piper Jackson, Mona Vajihollahi

      Pages 9-31

   3. Extracting Knowledge from Graph Data in Adversarial Settings

      • David Skillicorn

      Pages 33-54

   4. Mathematically Modeling Terrorist Cells: Examining the Strength of Structures of Small Sizes

      • Lauren McGough

      Pages 55-67

   5. Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Temporal Reasoning for Criminal Forensics

      • Abbas K. Zaidi, Mashhood Ishaque, Alexander H. Levis

      Pages 69-90

   6. Two Theoretical Research Questions Concerning the Structure of the Perfect Terrorist Cell

      • Jonathan David Farley

      Pages 91-103

4. Forecasting

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Understanding Terrorist Organizations with a Dynamic Model

      • Alexander Gutfraind

      Pages 107-125

   3. Inference Approaches to Constructing Covert Social Network Topologies

      • Christopher J. Rhodes

      Pages 127-140

   4. A Mathematical Analysis of Short-term Responses to Threats of Terrorism

      • Edieal J. Pinker

      Pages 141-160

   5. Network Detection Theory

      • James P. Ferry, Darren Lo, Stephen T Ahearn, Aaron M. Phillips

      Pages 161-181

5. Communication/Interpretation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 183-183

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   2. Security of Underground Resistance Movements

      • Bert Hartnell, Georg Gunther

      Pages 185-204

   3. Intelligence Constraints on Terrorist Network Plots

      • Gordon Woo

      Pages 205-214

   4. On Heterogeneous Covert Networks

      • Roy Lindelauf, Peter Borm, Herbert Hamers

      Pages 215-228

   5. Two Models for Semi-Supervised Terrorist Group Detection

      • Fatih Ozgul, Zeki Erdem, Chris Bowerman

      Pages 229-249

6. Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 251-251

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Terrorism is one of the serious threats to international peace and security that we face in this decade. No nation can consider itself immune from the dangers it poses, and no society can remain disengaged from the efforts to combat it. The termcounterterrorism refers to the techniques, strategies, and tactics used in the ?ght against terrorism. Counterterrorism efforts involve many segments of so- ety, especially governmental agencies including the police, military, and intelligence agencies (both domestic and international). The goal of counterterrorism efforts is to not only detect and prevent potential future acts but also to assist in the response to events that have already occurred. A terrorist cell usually forms very quietly and then grows in a pattern – sp- ning international borders, oceans, and hemispheres. Surprising to many, an eff- tive “weapon”, just as quiet – mathematics – can serve as a powerful tool to combat terrorism, providing the ability to connect the dots and reveal the organizational pattern of something so sinister. The events of 9/11 instantly changed perceptions of the wordsterrorist andn- work, especially in the United States. The international community was confronted with the need to tackle a threat which was not con?ned to a discreet physical - cation. This is a particular challenge to the standard instruments for projecting the legal authority of states and their power to uphold public safety. As demonstrated by the events of the 9/11 attack, we know that terrorist attacks can happen anywhere.

• Counterterrorism
• Data Analysis of terrorist activity
• ETA
• Emergency response and planning
• Homeland security
• Information harvesting
• Intelligence
• Mathematical Methods
• Palestine Liberation Organization
• Terrorist
• Topologie
• calculus
• computer security
• security
• terrorism

• The Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark

  Nasrullah Memon

• Institut für Algebra, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

  Jonathan David Farley

• Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark

  David L. Hicks

• Esbjerg Institute of Technology, Aalborg University Esbjerg, Esbjerg, Denmark

  Torben Rosenorn

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