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This is to announce the publication of the following NEW BOOK:

Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection
By Jesus Mena
Digital Press 2003
452 pp. ISBN 0-07506-7613-2

Both the Federal Bureau of Investigations and the new Department of Homeland Security have identified data mining as a key component in combating crime and terrorism in the 21st century. This is the first book that describes how data mining technologies and techniques can be used for law enforcement and national defense. The book illustrates current and future applications of data mining in homeland security and preventative law enforcement; it shows how to construct predictive models for detecting criminal activity and for the behavioral profiling of perpetrators.

The book is geared at law enforcement investigators, system integrator vendors, software developers, information technology security analysts, fraud specialists, and government employees. Case studies are provided illustrating how self-organizing maps have been used to associate unsolved crimes to the modus operandi (MO) of perpetrators, or neural networks for the recognition of the signatures of arson, fraud, system intrusion, and machine learning algorithms for the detection of smugglers and potential terrorists.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Precrime Data Mining
Chapter 2 Investigative Data Warehousing
Chapter 3 Link Analysis: Visualizing Associations
Chapter 4 Intelligent Agents: Software Detectives
Chapter 5 Text Mining: Clustering Concepts
Chapter 6 Neural Networks: Classifying Patterns
Chapter 7 Machine Learning: Developing Profiles
Chapter 8 NetFraud: A Case Study
Chapter 9 Criminal Patterns: Detection Techniques
Chapter 10 Intrusion Detection: Techniques and Systems
Chapter 11 An Entity Validation System (EVS): A Conceptual Architecture
Chapter 12 Mapping Crime: Clustering Case Work
Appendix A 1,000 Online Sources for the Investigative Data Miner
Appendix B Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) Products, Services, and Projects
Appendix C Intrusion Detection Glossary
Appendix D Investigative Data Mining Products and Services
Index

A free copy of Chapter 1 can be obtained at http://www.prominer.com

The book is available at all online bookstores or at the publisher�s website: http://www.bh.com