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Record Nr.

UNINA9910484486803321

Autore

Subrahmanian V. S.

Titolo

A Machine Learning Based Model of Boko Haram / / by V. S. Subrahmanian, Chiara Pulice, James F. Brown, Jacob Bonen-Clark

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021

ISBN

3-030-60614-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 135 p. 38 illus., 29 illus. in color.)

Collana

Terrorism, Security, and Computation, , 2197-8786

Disciplina

363.32

Soggetti

Machine learning

Data mining

Terrorism

Political violence

Machine Learning

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Terrorism and Political Violence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: History of Boko Haram -- Chapter 3: Temporal Probabilistic Rules and Policy Computation Algorithms -- Chapter 4: Sexual Violence -- Chapter 5: Suicide Bombings -- Chapter 6: Abductions -- Chapter 7: Arson -- Chapter 8: Other Types of Attacks -- Appendix A: All TP-Rules -- Appendix B: Data Collection -- Appendix C: Most Used Variables -- Appendix D: Sample Boko Haram Report.

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first study of Boko Haram that brings advanced data-driven, machine learning models to both learn models capable of predicting a wide range of attacks carried out by Boko Haram, as well as develop data-driven policies to shape Boko Haram’s behavior and reduce attacks by them. This book also identifies conditions that predict sexual violence, suicide bombings and attempted bombings, abduction, arson, looting, and targeting of government officials and security installations. After reducing Boko Haram’s history to a spreadsheet containing monthly information about different types of attacks and



different circumstances prevailing over a 9 year period, this book introduces Temporal Probabilistic (TP) rules that can be automatically learned from data and are easy to explain to policy makers and security experts. This book additionally reports on over 1 year of forecasts made using the model in order to validate predictive accuracy. It also introduces a policy computation method to rein in Boko Haram’s attacks. Applied machine learning researchers, machine learning experts and predictive modeling experts agree that this book is a valuable learning asset. Counter-terrorism experts, national and international security experts, public policy experts and Africa experts will also agree this book is a valuable learning tool.