Data Mining Technologies and their Applications in Counter-terrorism

This course will first provide an overview of terrorism and the supporting technologies for data mining. Then it will describe details on data mining technologies, techniques, tools and trends. The applications of data mining to combat terrorism including adaptive data mining real-time data mining, social network analysis, semantic web mining and knowledge management for counter-terrorism will be discussed. Finally prototype systems that utilizes data mining for counter-terrorism will be described.

Course Outline:

• 1.       Introduction to the Course

Part 1: Supporting Technologies

• 2.       Data Management and Data Warehousing
• 3.       Statistical Reasoning
• 4.       Machine Learning
• 5.       Semantic Web
• 6.       Knowledge Management

Part II: Terrorism Studies

• 7.       History of Terrorism
• 8.       Understanding the Terrorists
• 9.       Aspects of Terrorisms

Part III: Data Mining

• 10.   Introduction to Data Mining
• 11.   Data Mining Technologies, Techniques, Tools and Trends
• 12.   Multimedia and Web Data Mining

Part IV: Details of Data Mining Techniques

• 13.   Association Rule Mining
• 14.   Classification
• 15.   Clustering
• 16.   Anomaly Detection

Part V: Data Mining for Counter-terrorism

• 17.   Introducing to Data Mining to combat Terrorism
• 18.   Adaptive and Real-time Data Mining
• 19.   Geospatial Data Mining
• 20.   Link Mining and Social Network Analysis
• 21.   Data Mining, Security and Privacy

Part VI: Data Mining Application System – Part I

• 22.   Data Mining for Surveillance
• 23.   Data Mining for Bioterrorism
• 24.   Data Mining for Web Page Prediction
• 25.   Stream Mining and Novel Class Detection

Part VII: Novel Systems – Part II

• 26.   Knowledge Management Applications
• 27.   Incentives and Information Sharing
• 28.   Temporal Geo-social semantic web
• 29.   Black book for the Analyst

• 30.   Conclusion to the course

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas where she is also the  Director of the Cyber Security Research Center in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science. Prior to joining the university in October 2004, she worked for 24 years in the commercial industry, the MITRE Corporation and the National Science Foundation. Her work in information security and information management has resulted in over 100 journal articles, over 200 refereed conference papers, and three US patents. She is the author of ten books in data management, data mining and data security. She is also a Fellow of IEEE, AAAS and the British Computer Society, and received the IEEE Computer Society’s 1997 technical Achievement Award.  Dr. Thuraisingham was educated in the United Kingdom both at the University of Bristol and the University of Wales. She is currently completing a certificate course in Terrorism Studies at St. Andrews University in Scotland.

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