Wenji Mao - New Advances in Intelligence and Security Informatics

Jim Hendler: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

William T. Scherer: University of Virginia

Hsinchun Chen: University of Arizona

Kathleen Carley: Carnegie Mellon University

Ruiwei Dai: Chinese Academy of Sciences

Youxian Sun: Zhejiang University

Chelsea (Chip) C. White: Georgia Tech

Petros Ioannou: University of Southern California

Frank Lewis: University of Texas at Arlington

Bruno Sicilianos: Universit degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Wendy Hall: University of Southampton

Recent years have witnessed tremendous demand for integrated research at the intersection of information technologies and security related applications in recent years. Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) is aimed at developing advanced information technologies, systems, algorithms, and databases for national, international and homeland security related applications, through an integrated technological, organizational, and policy-based approach. The topics in ISI include data management, data and text mining for security informatics applications, terrorism informatics, deception and intent detection, terrorist and criminal social network analysis, public health and bio-security, crime analysis, cyber-infrastructure protection, transportation infrastructure security, policy studies and evaluation, information assurance, and many others.

Information technologies have progressed significantly in recent years. Meanwhile, national and international security is becoming increasingly sophisticated and diversified. To meet the challenges faced with security informatics, new directions in ISI research and applications have emerged to address complicated problems with advanced technologies. This book provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary account of the new advances in the ISI domain along three fundamental dimensions: Methodology, Technological development and Application. In present the synthesis of socio-cultural computing and security informatics research with case studies.

This book intends to benefit researchers as well as security professionals, intelligence experts and policy makers who are involved in cutting-edge research and applications in security informatics and related fields. The audience of this book includes: (i) researchers in security informatics, behavioral modeling, knowledge management and socio-cultural computing; (ii) public and private sector practitioners in the national, international and homeland security area and public policy analysts; (iii) graduate level students in information and computer science related major, intelligent systems, security informatics, and social and economic computing.

We hope that the perspectives, models, technological development, and empirical findings presented in this book will provide an integrated account of the new advances in intelligence and security informatics. We also hope that this book will contribute to the synthesis of the interdisciplinary research in ISI domain, and promote community-building among researchers and practitioners in this exciting field.

Wenji Mao

Institute of Automation
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Beijing, China

Fei-Yue Wang

National University of Defense Technology
Changsha, China