European states regularly experience a wide range of major crisis events, including not only environmental disasters such as major flooding, avalanches and earthquakes, but also man-made incidents involving large-scale transport-related accidents and terrorist-sponsored events. When responding to such incidents, Emergency service agencies and rescue organisations are working together more frequ...

Terrorist group prediction using historical data of terrorist incidents has been less explored due to the lack of meticulous terrorist data which contains terrorist group’s attacks and activities information. There are many reasons for less exploration like its confidentiality & sensitivity. This paper presents an enhanced system that helps to predict the terrorist groups involved in the attack...

This paper presents a realistic and practical approach to quantitatively assess the risk-reduction capabilities of military counterterrorism systems in terms of damage cost and casualty figures. The comparison of alternatives is thereby based on absolute quantities rather than an aggregated utility or value provided by multicriteria decision analysis methods. The key elements of the approach ar...

The motivation of this project is to develop a computer model which allows the modelling of human response to a variety of human threat scenarios. These may range across both natural threats such as disease, fire and flood and unnatural events including accident and deliberate acts such as terrorist attacks. The tool is being developed in response to a number of requests from third parties, inc...

Certainly, one cannot ignore that the events of September 11th have spurred an increased activity of private and public interest in security and especially, biometrics. This has raised concerns that reacting too quickly with rapid implementations of a technology that some are still trying to grapple with, may result in sacrificing privacy rights in the name of security. In fact, it is highly li...

Disasters like terrorist attacks, earthquakes, hurricanes, and volcano eruptions are usually unpredictable events that affect a high number of people. We propose an approach that can be used as a decision support tool for a post-disaster response that allows the assignment of victims to hospitals and organizes their transportation via emergency vehicles. Exploiting Operational Research and Cons...

With the increase in terrorism in several parts of the world, more people are exposed to traumatic events that could cause psychiatric injury either to them or to members of their families. In Britain, terrorist attacks or other catastrophes are not unknown; indeed, the case law relating to psychiatric injury is vast. However, the intersection between medicine and the law is minimal. The result...

In today’s era of hi-tech technologies, criminals are easily fulfilling their inhuman goals against the mankind. Thus, the security of civilians has significantly become important. In this regard, the law-enforcement agencies are aiming to prevent future attacks. To do so, the terrorist networks are being analyzed using data mining techniques. One such technique is Social network analysis which...

Large-scale emergencies, such as substantial acts of nature, large human-caused accidents, and major terrorist attacks, are of high-consequence, low-probability (HCLP) events that may result in loss of life and severe property damage. In recent years, developing decision-oriented operations researchmodels to improve preparation for and response to major emergencies has drawn more and more atten...

Large-scale emergencies, such as substantial acts of nature, large human-caused accidents, and major terrorist attacks, are of high-consequence, low-probability (HCLP) events that may result in loss of life and severe property damage. In recent years, developing decision-oriented operations researchmodels to improve preparation for and response to major emergencies has drawn more and more atten...