Intelligence and Security Informatics for Homeland Security：Information, Communication, and Transportation.pdfVIP

IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS, VOL. 5, NO. 4, DECEMBER 2004 329 Intelligence and Security Informatics for Homeland Security: Information, Communication, and Transportation Hsinchun Chen, Senior Member, IEEE, Fei-Yue Wang, Fellow, IEEE, and Daniel Zeng, Member, IEEE Abstract— Intelligence and security informatics (ISI) is an The federal government defines homeland security as “a emerging field of study aimed at developing advanced information concerted national effort to prevent terrorist attacks within the technologies, systems, algorithms, and databases for national- and United States, reduce America’s vulnerability to terrorism, and homeland-security-related applications, through an integrated technological, organizational, and policy-based approach. This minimize the damage and recover from attacks that do occur” paper summarizes the broad application and policy context for [1, p. 2]. In 2002, two important reports were published to pro- this emerging field. Three detailed case studies are presented to vide strategic directions for homeland-security-related efforts. illustrate several key ISI research areas, including cross-juris- The first report is entitled “National Strategy for Homeland diction information sharing; terrorism information collection, Security” and was issued by the Office of Homeland Security at analysis, and visualization; and “smart-border” and bioterrorism applications. A specific emphasis of this paper is to note various the White House in July 2002 [1]. It aims to establish strategic homeland-security-related applications that have direct relevance objectives aroun