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The Application of PROACT® RCA to Terrorism/Counter Terrorism Related Events

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Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI 2005)

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Field proven Root Cause Analysis (RCA) from the industrial sector can assist the terrorism community in decompiling terrorist acts to further understand the mentalities that trigger such events to escalate. RCA is a disciplined thought process that is not specific to any industry or given situation, but specific to the human being. We will focus on how to logically breakdown a seemly complex event into it more manageable sub-components.

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  1. Executive Vice President, Reliability Center, Inc., Hopewell, VA, 23860

    Robert J. Latino

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  1. Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University,  

    Paul Kantor

  2. School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, 08901-1071, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Gheorghe Muresan

  3. Artificial Solutions, Altonaer Poststraße 13b, 22767, Hamburg, Germany

    Fred Roberts

  4. MIS Department, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Daniel D. Zeng

  5. Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Fei-Yue Wang

  6. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  7. College of Computing, Georgia Tech Information Security Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, 801 Atlantic Drive, 30332-0280, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ralph C. Merkle

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Latino, R.J. (2005). The Application of PROACT® RCA to Terrorism/Counter Terrorism Related Events. In: Kantor, P., et al. Intelligence and Security Informatics. ISI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3495. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11427995_62

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11427995_62

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-25999-2

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