Introduction to special issue on terrorism informatics

Abstract

Since September 11th, the multidisciplinary field of terrorism informatics has experienced tremendous growth, and research communities as well as local, state, and national governments are facing increasingly more complex and challenging issues. The challenges facing the intelligence and national security communities worldwide include accurately and efficiently monitoring, analyzing, predicting and preventing terrorist activities. The development and use of advanced information technologies, including methodologies, models and algorithms, infrastructure, systems, and tools for national/international and homeland security related applications have provided promising new directions for study.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 (Chen et al. 2008).

National Security and Social Media Monitoring: A Presentation of the EMOTIVE and Related Systems

“…fine-grained emotion detection, although some geolocation and simple tone detection was also performed in EMOTIVE. The work in [23] provides further support for why this kind of information and the resulting situational awareness is very useful in security incidents monitoring. In item 5 the visualisation and possibly a faceted user-interface allows to explore the enriched sparse text message data (items; 2, 3, 4).…”

Using Mobile Phone Data for Emergency Management: a Systematic Literature Review

“…However, managing violence and terror incidents is also very vital, because these emergencies happen frequently around the world. For such a crisis situation, it is challenging to gather their information due to the dark side and dynamic nature (Roberts 2011 ; Skillicorn 2011 ; Chen et al 2011 ).…”