Terrorism Prediction Using Artificial Neural Network.

The main purpose of this research is to develop a hybrid computational intelligent algorithm (framework) as a decision support (DS) tool for terrorism phenomenon that has been defeated for years by governments, countries, and different multiple institutions and hence it needs multiple and integrated research from different science disciplines with a hope of being eliminated in the future. The proposed hybrid prediction algorithm based on integrated different Operations Research (OR) and Decision support tools with Data Mining (DM) techniques especially prediction and classification algorithms as well as different directions of modification and improvements in a number of recent and popular metaheuristics inspired algorithms. The proposed system has been developed, implemented, and evaluated according to different set of assessment measures. Through this study, it was found that, the proposed system is capable of predicting the terrorist group (s) responsible of terror attacks on different regions (countries). The findings of this research may serve as an alarm tool to determine the terrorist groups' networks and so minimize the terrorist attacks. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]