Near-repeat terrorism: Identifying and analyzing the spatiotemporal attack patterns of major terrorist organizations

K Hunt, B Behlendorf, S Wang, S Mukherjee… - Expert Systems with …, 2024 - Elsevier
For many decades, the contagion of terrorism has presented a huge risk to our global
society. To this end, previous research has found that single terrorist attacks can elevate the …

[HTML][HTML] An integrated deep-learning and multi-level framework for understanding the behavior of terrorist groups

D Jiang, J Wu, F Ding, T Ide, J Scheffran, D Helman… - Heliyon, 2023 - cell.com
Human security is threatened by terrorism in the 21st century. A rapidly growing field of study
aims to understand terrorist attack patterns for counter-terrorism policies. Existing research …

[HTML][HTML] An Efficient Deep Learning Framework for Optimized Event Forecasting

EUH Qazi, MH Faheem, T Zia, M Imran, I Ahmad - Information, 2024 - mdpi.com
There have been several catastrophic events that have impacted multiple economies and
resulted in thousands of fatalities, and violence has generated a severe political and …

Applying unsupervised machine learning to counterterrorism

R Bridgelall - Journal of Computational Social Science, 2022 - Springer
To advance the agenda in counterterrorism, this work demonstrates how analysts can
combine unsupervised machine learning, exploratory data analysis, and statistical tests to …

The Ideology That Binds Us: Homophily in Ideology and Terrorists Collaborations

O Swed, MR Mostafa - Studies in Conflict & Terrorism, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
What brings different terrorist groups, organizations that are regularly secretive and
competitive, to collaborate with one another? We build on scholarship that identifies …

The geometrical shapes of violence: predicting and explaining terrorist operations through graph embeddings

GM Campedelli, J Layne, J Herzoff… - Journal of Complex …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Behaviours across terrorist groups differ based on a variety of factors, such as groups'
resources or objectives. We here show that organizations can also be distinguished by …