Knowledge Discovery for Counerterrorism and Law Enforcement

D.B. Skillicorn, Knowledge Discovery for Counterterrorism and Law Enforcement, CRC Press, is available.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction
	What is `Knowledge Discovery'?
	What is an Adversarial Setting?
	Algorithmic Knowledge Discovery
2. Data
	Kinds of Data
	How is Data Collected?
	Can Data be Trusted?
	How Much Data?
3. High-Level Principles
	Properties of `Bad Guys'
	Properties of Technology
	Using Feedback and Gaming the System
4. Looking for Risk -- Prediction and Anomaly Detection
	Goals
	Outline of Prediction Technology
	Concealment Opportunities
	Technologies
	Tactics and Process
	Case Studies
5. Looking for Similarity -- Clustering
	Goals
	Outline of Clustering Technology
	Concealment Opportunities
	Technologies
	Tactics and Process
	Special Case -- Looking for Outliers
	Case Studies
6. Looking for the Structure Inside Groups -- Relationship Discovery
	Goals
	Outline of Relationship Discovery Technology
	Concealment Opportunities
	Technologies
	Tactics and Process
	Case Studies
7. Looking for How a Group is Thinking -- Textual Analysis
	Text as it Reveals Internal State
	Outline of Textual Analysis Technology
8. Discovering Content in Private Communication
	Goals
	Concealment Opportunities
	Technologies
	Tactics and Process
	Case Studies
9. Discovering Content in Private Communication
	Goals
	Concealment Opportunities
	Technologies
	Tactics and Process
	Case Studies
10. Discovering Mental and Emotional State
	Goals
	Concealment Opportunities
	Technologies
	Tactics and Process
	Case Studies
11. Summary

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