Hidden Markov Models and Bayesian Networks for Counter-Terrorism

Emergent Information Technologies and Enabling Policies for Counter-Terrorism

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 27-50

  Pattipati, Krishna ^a   Willett, Peter ^a   Allanach, Jeffrey ^a   Tu, Haiying ^a   Singh, Satnam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks (BNs) and hidden Markov models (HMMs); Modeling terrorist activities with HMMs and BNs; Terrorist activity detection and tracking

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EID: 84889371790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/047178656X.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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