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Terrorists Spatio-Temporal Analysis Based on Social Network Tools

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This paper presents a time and space analysis method based on social network tools, using the open source Chinese text data and social network analysis tools to analyze the temporal and spatial distribution of Chinese terrorist activities. Through the construction of the terrorists network, the terrorists-time binary subnet and the terrorists-location binary subnet, making a social network analysis of the main active sites and active years of Chinese terrorists, and the characteristics of their activities were summarized, with a view to provide a reference for counter-terrorism decision-making departments.

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Acknowledgments

The paper is supported by the 2016 National Social Science Fund Western Project “Counter-terrorism early warning system architecture based on the information network and key issues research” (No. 16XSH003).

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  1. Officers’ College of Chinese Armed Police Force, Chengdu, 610213, Sichuan, China

    Xuan Guo, Pin-shan Zeng & Ying Yang

  2. PLA Academy of National Defense Information, Wuhan, 430010, Hubei, China

    Xuan Guo & Zhi-ting Xiao

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  1. Faculty of Information Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan

    Leonard Barolli

  2. Rissho University, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomoya Enokido

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Guo, X., Xiao, Zt., Zeng, Ps., Yang, Y. (2018). Terrorists Spatio-Temporal Analysis Based on Social Network Tools. In: Barolli, L., Enokido, T. (eds) Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing . IMIS 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 612. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-61542-4_65

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