Identifying Prominent Individuals or Groups in Terrorist Network Using Social Network Analysis and Investigative Data Mining

Abstract

This is a major concern for most of the countries all over the world to fight against terrorism. Post 9/11 attacks it became important for the legal enforcement agencies to intercept such attacks in advance, otherwise at least identify the key suspects and their associated network. Although the huge amount of information generated and lack of effective analysis approach and methods impede the effective analysis. It cannot be done on the basis of traditional approaches and defend criminal and terrorist activities. However a novice approach like Investigative Data Mining (IDM), a type of Data Mining may provide a well defined approach to tackle the uprising situation. In this paper, an effort is made to understand and illustrate how IDM works and show its importance in identifying key nodes in terrorist networks with social network Analysis.