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Understanding the dynamics of terrorism events with multiple-discipline datasets and machine learning approach.
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 6, p e0179057 (2017)
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017.
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Abstract
- Terror events can cause profound consequences for the whole society. Finding out the regularity of terrorist attacks has important meaning for the global counter-terrorism strategy. In the present study, we demonstrate a novel method using relatively popular and robust machine learning methods to simulate the risk of terrorist attacks at a global scale based on multiple resources, long time series and globally distributed datasets. Historical data from 1970 to 2015 was adopted to train and evaluate machine learning models. The model performed fairly well in predicting the places where terror events might occur in 2015, with a success rate of 96.6%. Moreover, it is noteworthy that the model with optimized tuning parameter values successfully predicted 2,037 terrorism event locations where a terrorist attack had never happened before.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.9c802d01da354423a399b97901ca6977
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0179057