Intelligent Data Analytics for Terror Threat Prediction: Architectures, Methodologies, Techniques, and Applications

Intelligent data analytics for terror threat prediction is an emerging field of research at the intersection of information science and computer science, bringing with it a new era of tremendous opportunities and challenges due to plenty of easily available criminal data for further analysis.

This book provides innovative insights that will help obtain interventions to undertake emerging dynamic scenarios of criminal activities. Furthermore, it presents emerging issues, challenges and management strategies in public safety and crime control development across various domains. The book will play a vital role in improvising human life to a great extent. Researchers and practitioners working in the fields of data mining, machine learning and artificial intelligence will greatly benefit from this book, which will be a good addition to the state-of-the-art approaches collected for intelligent data analytics. It will also be very beneficial for those who are new to the field and need to quickly become acquainted with the best performing methods. With this book they will be able to compare different approaches and carry forward their research in the most important areas of this field, which has a direct impact on the betterment of human life by maintaining the security of our society. No other book is currently on the market which provides such a good collection of state-of-the-art methods for intelligent data analytics-based models for terror threat prediction, as intelligent data analytics is a newly emerging field and research in data mining and machine learning is still in the early stage of development.

Subhendu Kumar Pani received his PhD from Utkal University Odisha, India in 2013. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Orissa Engineering College (OEC), Bhubaneswar, India. He has published more than 50 articles in international journals, authored 5 books and edited 2 volumes.

Sanjay Kumar Singh is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Varanasi. He has published more than 130 international publications, 4 edited books and 2 patents.

Lalit Garg received his PhD from the University of Ulster, UK in Computing and Information Engineering. He is a senior lecturer in Computer Information Systems, University of Malta, Malta.

Ram Bilas Pachori received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur, India in 2008. He is now a professor of Electrical Engineering, IIT Indore, India. He has more than 170 publications which include journal papers, conference papers, books, and book chapters.

Xiaobo Zhang obtained his Master of Computer Science, Doctor of Engineering (Control Theory and Control Engineering) and is now working in the Internet of Things Department of Automation, Guangdong University of Technology, China. He has published more than 30 journal articles, edited 3 books, and has applied for more than 40 invention patents and obtained 6 software copyrights.