Abstract
Human security is threatened by terrorism in the 21st century. A rapidly growing field of study aims to understand terrorist attack patterns for counter-terrorism policies. Existing research aimed at predicting terrorism from a single perspective, typically employing only background contextual information or past attacks of terrorist groups, has reached its limits. Here, we propose an integrated deep-learning framework that incorporates the background context of past attacked locations, social networks, and past actions of individual terrorist groups to discover the behavior patterns of terrorist groups. The results show that our framework outperforms the conventional base model at different spatio-temporal resolutions. Further, our model can project future targets of active terrorist groups to identify high-risk areas and offer other attack-related information in sequence for a specific terrorist group. Our findings highlight that the combination of a deep-learning approach and multi-scalar data can provide groundbreaking insights into terrorism and other organized violent crimes.
Original language | English |
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Article number | e18895 |
Journal | Heliyon |
Volume | 9 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2023 |
Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2023 The Authors
Funding
This research was funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 42001238 ) and the Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Grant No. XDA19040305 ).
Funders | Funder number |
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National Natural Science Foundation of China | 42001238 |
Chinese Academy of Sciences | XDA19040305 |
Keywords
- Deep learning
- Terrorism
- Terrorist group
- Terrorist network