Emergent Information Technologies and Enabling Policies for Counter-Terrorism explores both counter-terrorism and enabling policy dimensions of emerging information technologies in national security.

Features:

• Offers key assets in confronting a secretive, asymmetric, and networked enemy
• Provides a unique, integrated treatment of cutting-edge counter-terrorism technologies and their corresponding policy options
• Brings together a diverse knowledge base for those charged with protecting our nation from terrorist attacks while preserving our civil liberties

Contents

1. Counter-terrorism modeling
2. Quantitative and computational social science
3. Signal processing and information management techniques
4. Semantic Web and knowledge management technologies
5. Information and intelligence sharing technologies
6. Text/data processing and language translation technologies
7. Social network analysis
8. Legal standards for data mining
9. Potential structures for enabling policies
10. Technical system design to support policy

Index

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