Editors:
- Provides methods for utilizing network analysis towards security concerns
- Presents techniques for using big data towards understanding vulnerabilities in complex networks
- Gives insights into understanding why infrastructures can and do fail in crisis situations and how to mitigate these effects
- Can help prepare inform future major event security operations for large events such as the Olympics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Social Networks (LNSN)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Networks and Network Analysis for Defence and Security discusses relevant theoretical frameworks and applications of network analysis in support of the defence and security domains. This book details real world applications of network analysis to support defence and security. Shocks to regional, national and global systems stemming from natural hazards, acts of armed violence, terrorism and serious and organized crime have significant defence and security implications. Today, nations face an uncertain and complex security landscape in which threats impact/target the physical, social, economic and cyber domains. Threats to national security, such as that against critical infrastructures not only stem from man-made acts but also from natural hazards. Katrina (2005), Fukushima (2011) and Hurricane Sandy (2012) are examples highlighting the vulnerability of critical infrastructures to natural hazards and the crippling effect they have on the social and economic well-being of a communityand a nation. With this dynamic and complex threat landscape, network analysis has emerged as a key enabler in supporting defence and security. With the advent of ‘big data’ and increasing processing power, network analysis can reveal insights with regards to structural and dynamic properties thereby facilitating greater understanding of complex networks, their entities, interdependencies, vulnerabilities to produce insights for creative solutions. This book will be well positioned to inform defence, security and intelligence professionals and researchers with regards to leading methodologies and approaches.
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Editors and Affiliations
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University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
Anthony J. Masys
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Networks and Network Analysis for Defence and Security
Editors: Anthony J. Masys
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Social Networks
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04147-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04146-9Published: 21 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34291-7Published: 03 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04147-6Published: 10 February 2014
Series ISSN: 2190-5428
Series E-ISSN: 2190-5436
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 287
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applications of Graph Theory and Complex Networks, Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences, Security Science and Technology