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Technological and Methodological Advances in the Protection of Soft Targets: The Experience of the STEPWISE Project

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The chapter presents the STEPWISE project, funded under the Internal Security Fund Police (ISFP) programme, and related to the provision of a toolkit for the preparation and evaluation of the protection of public spaces through the virtual mock-up of such areas and the use of dedicated tools and methodology. In particular, in this chapter we will argue how methodological and technological advances in the development of Decision Support Systems (DSS) may improve the assessment and the evaluation of security plans and response of critical/relevant buildings and public spaces or even areas, which could constitute elective targets for potential attacks. After briefly discussing the methodological and technological gaps in the development of DSS, we will show the added value in bridging these gaps that will be achieved with the implementation of the STEPWISE project, and we will discuss about its current limitations as well as potential future developments.

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Acknowledgments

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Internal Security Fund – Police under grand agreement no. 815182 (STEPWISE). The STEPWISE Project is available at the following URL: https://www.stepwise-project.eu/

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  1. Link Campus University, Rome, Italy

    Stefano Armenia

  2. CS GROUP, Toulouse, France

    Anita Schilling & Olivier Balet

  3. Crisisplan BV, Leiden, The Netherlands

    Maureen Weller

  4. KEMEA – Center for Security Studies, Athens, Greece

    George Kokkinis

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  1. CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organised Crime Research), Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK

    Babak Akhgar

  2. Center for Security Studies-KEMEA, Athens, Greece

    Dimitrios Kavallieros

  3. Crisis Management and Security Unit, Institute of Communication and Computer, Athens, Greece

    Evangelos Sdongos

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Armenia, S., Schilling, A., Balet, O., Weller, M., Kokkinis, G. (2021). Technological and Methodological Advances in the Protection of Soft Targets: The Experience of the STEPWISE Project. In: Akhgar, B., Kavallieros, D., Sdongos, E. (eds) Technology Development for Security Practitioners. Security Informatics and Law Enforcement. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69460-9_22

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