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Title:\u00a0Application of Big Data for National Security: A practioner’s guide to Emerging Technologies<\/a><\/strong>
\n Editors: Babak Akhgar<\/a>, Andrew Staniforth, Francesca Bosco<\/strong>
\n Publisher:\u00a0Butterworth-Heinemann<\/strong>
\n Publication date: 17 Feb 2015<\/strong>
\n Number of pages: 316<\/strong>
\n ISBN-13:\u00a0978-0128019672<\/strong><\/p>\n

Application of Big Data for National Security provides users with state-of-the-art concepts, methods, and technologies for Big Data analytics in the fight against terrorism and crime, including a wide range of case studies and application scenarios. This book combines expertise from an international team of experts in law enforcement, national security, and law, as well as computer sciences, criminology, linguistics, and psychology, creating a unique cross-disciplinary collection of knowledge and insights into this increasingly global issue.<\/p>\n

The strategic frameworks and critical factors presented in Application of Big Data for National Security consider technical, legal, ethical, and societal impacts, but also practical considerations of Big Data system design and deployment, illustrating how data and security concerns intersect. In identifying current and future technical and operational challenges it supports law enforcement and government agencies in their operational, tactical and strategic decisions when employing Big Data for national security.<\/p>\n

For\u00a0a full list of publications from CENTRIC<\/a> please see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Title:\u00a0Application of Big Data for National Security: A practioner’s guide to Emerging Technologies Editors: Babak Akhgar, Andrew Staniforth, Francesca Bosco Publisher:\u00a0Butterworth-Heinemann Publication date: 17 Feb 2015 Number of pages: 316 ISBN-13:\u00a0978-0128019672 Application of Big Data for National Security provides users with state-of-the-art concepts, methods, and technologies for Big Data analytics in the fight against terrorism and crime, including a wide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":444,"featured_media":1932,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[368,376,6,301,151,346],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","tag-babak-akhgar","tag-big-data","tag-communication-and-computing-research-centre","tag-centric","tag-computing-research","tag-cyber-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/05\/AKHGAR-2015-02-Application-of-Big-Data-for-National-Security.jpg?fit=235%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-v9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1908,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/social-media-in-crisis-management\/","url_meta":{"origin":1931,"position":0},"title":"Application of Social Media in Crisis Management – Professors Babak Akhgar and David Waddington (Eds)","author":"Rachel Finch","date":"10\/04\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Title: Application of Social Media in Crisis Management Editors: Babak Akhgar, Andrew Staniforth, David Waddington Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication date: 10 Apr 2017 Number of pages: 254 ISBN-13: 978-3319524184 Series Title: Transactions on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications One of the key\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Publications"","block_context":{"text":"Publications","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/publications\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2017\/05\/AKHGAR-and-WADDINGTON-2017-04-application-of-social-media-in-crisis-managment.jpg?fit=220%2C290&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1922,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/community-policing-a-european-perspective\/","url_meta":{"origin":1931,"position":1},"title":"Community Policing – A European Perspective – Professor Babak Akhgar (Eds)","author":"Rachel Finch","date":"19\/05\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Title: Community Policing - A European Perspective: Strategies, Best Practices and Guidelines Editors: P. 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