"This research was supported by the United States Department of Homeland Security through the National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) under TO HSCG32-11-J-R00001, BOA HSHQDC-10-D-00019. However, any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect views of the United States Departm...

This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security under Grant Award Number 2006-CS-001-000001, under the auspices of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) research program. The I3P is managed by Dartmouth College. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily...

The United States has experienced and remains vulnerable to many events that cause large numbers of casualties. The tragic events of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent anthrax exposures and deaths also awakened the nation to the threat of homeland terrorist attacks. As the United States began to enhance counterterrorism measures in response to the homeland terrorist attacks of September 11,...

This work was produced under the auspices of the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection (I3P) research program. The I3P is managed by Dartmouth College, and supported under Award number 2003-TK-TX-0003 from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Science and Technology Directorate. Points of view in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the offic...

This paper describes the goals and emerging results of an ongoing research project in order to solicit input and feedback from the AI for Homeland Security community. The objective is to gain a greater understanding of the performance issues and computational requirements associated with real world AI applications for intelligence analysis and homeland security. These computational requirements...

with the high rise of immigration in the world, diaspora or presence of the immigrants’ communities in the countries of the first world has attracted significant attention from different scholars. the theoreticians of diaspora have considered several characteristics in defining diasporan communities the most important of which is the relationship to the homeland. with regards to such a relation...

In this article, we scrutinize the often stated assumption that labor migrants in Germany turn away from integration and reaffirm their ethnicity by examining their identificational, cognitive, and social assimilation processes. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel, we present trend analyses of different hostlandand homeland-related indicators for the past fifteen years. Results are ...

Protecting our nation’s ports is a critical challenge for homeland security and requires the research, development and deployment of new technologies that will allow for the efficient securing of shipments entering this country. Most approaches look only at statistical irregularities in the attributes of the cargo, and not at the relationships of this cargo to others. However, anomalies detecte...

Most disaster scenarios faced by agencies entrustedwith homeland security require timely access to relevant information that can be sensed and acted upon. However, the required data and information often reside in silos that are isolated from each other due to jurisdictional boundaries or representational incompatibilities. Given the nature of the threat to homeland security, regional, cross-in...

Data mining is emerging as one of the key features of many homeland security initiatives. Often used as a means for detecting fraud, assessing risk, and product retailing, data mining involves the use of data analysis tools to discover previously unknown, valid patterns and relationships in large data sets. In the context of homeland security, data mining is often viewed as a potential means to...