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Crowdsourcing Intelligence to Combat Terrorism: Harnessing Bottom-Up Collection to Prevent Lone-Wolf Terror Attacks
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In: DTIC (2015)
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U.S. officials have acknowledged that attackers of the lone-wolf and isolated-cell organizational type are on the rise and now pose a greater threat than major coordinated actions. Traditional intelligence methods, using a top-down approach with an emphasis on signals intelligence, are ill-equipped to identify and prevent terrorists using lone-wolf tactics. Crowdsourcing, as a problem-solving technique, is a relatively new idea but has shown great promise in tackling issues similar to the identification of lone-wolf terrorists. At its core, crowdsourcing is a method for thousands or even millions of people to contribute their knowledge, expertise, or skills towards a unified task. Done correctly, it has produced results unachievable by traditional tasking of humans or computers. This thesis identifies how the signals surrounding lone-wolf attacks are different and more subtle in nature from those mounted by organized terror groups. In turn, the thesis examines the potential benefits of crowdsourcing intelligence in order to strengthen the U.S. intelligence community s ability to approach this emerging problem of lone-wolf terrorism. In short, this thesis proposes that the U.S. intelligence community harness the power of U.S. citizens to help prevent identify the subtle indictors presented by lone-wolf terrorists in order to prevent lone-wolf terrorist attacks.
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*COLLABORATIVE TECHNIQUES; *COMMUNITY RELATIONS; *COUNTERTERRORISM; *ONLINE COMMUNITIES; *PREVENTION; BIG DATA; CITIZEN PARTICIPATION; CIVILIAN POPULATION; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; CROWDSOURCING; DATA MINING; DEMOGRAPHY; DISTRIBUTED NETWORKS; DOMESTIC TERRORISM; GROUP DYNAMICS; HUMAN INTELLIGENCE; IDENTIFICATION; INFORMATION EXCHANGE; INTERNET; LONE-WOLF; Military Intelligence; Psychology; SIGINT(SIGNALS INTELLIGENCE); SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; Sociology and Law; SOCMINT(SOCIAL MEDIA INTELLIGENCE); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THESES; THREATS
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URL: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA620622
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA620622
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Learning to Understand Natural Language with Less Human Effort
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In: DTIC (2015)
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Composite Artistry Meets Facial Recognition Technology: Exploring the Use of Facial Recognition Technology to Identify Composite Images
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In: DTIC (2011)
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Intelligence Dissemination to the Warfighter
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In: DTIC (2007)
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Developing Dependable Software for a System-of-Systems
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (2005)
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Computer Programs Supporting Instruction in Acoustics
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Cross Model Access in the Multi-Lingual, Multi-Model Database Management System
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1997)
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Information Requirements Analysis: A Qualitative Characterization of the Flightline Expediter for the Integrated Maintenance Information System
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Schema and Data Conflict Resolution Across Distributed Graphical ASN.1 Databases.
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
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The Design and Implementation of the Functional/Daplex Data Interface for the Multimodel and Multilingual Database System
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1994)
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Using Multiple Adaptively-Weighted Strategies for the Resolution of Demonstratives
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1993)
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Naive Physics, Event Perception, Lexical Semantics, and Language Acquisition
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1993)
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Design and Implementation of an Object-Oriented Interface for the Multi- Model/Multi-Lingual Database System
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1993)
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Continuous Speech Recognition as an Input Method for Tactical Command Entry in the SH-60B Helicopter
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1992)
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An Investigation into the Use of Computer-Assisted Instruction to Present Basic English Grammar Concepts
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1991)
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Rule Based Sinusoidal Encoding of Speech
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1990)
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An Investigation of the Methodology for Software Translation from PASCAL to C of an Undocumented Microcomputer Program
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In: DTIC AND NTIS (1990)
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The Design and Implementation of a Syntax Directed Editor for the Specification Language Spec
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