A Multi-Agent Model for Countering Terrorism

Abstract

The rise of terrorism over the past decade did not only hinder the development of some countries, but also it continues to destroy humanity. To face this concept of an emerging crisis, every country and every citizen is responsible for the fight against terrorism. As conventional plans became useless against terrorism, governments are required to establish innovative concepts and technologies to support units in this asymmetric war. In this paper, we propose a new multi-agent model for counter-terrorism characterized by a methodical process and a flexibility to handle different contingency scenarios. The division of labour in our multi-agent model improves decision making and the structuring of organisational plans.

ATiPreTA: An analytical model for time-dependent prediction of terrorist attacks

“…In future work, we plan to integrate other parameters that handle irregular conflicts. Furthermore, we aim to integrate ATiPreTA, as an intelligence agent, in a multi-agent model for countering terrorism (Kebir et al, 2020a). This agent predicts the casualty count in different cases and compares it with the results obtained from the multi-agent model to refine the process.…”

“…The aim of their research is to convince Norwegian Armed Forces commanders about the value of simulation in tactical operations (cf. Kebir et al, 2020a;2020c). Udoh and Oladejo (2019) developed and analyzed a differential equation model of terrorist organizational dynamics.…”

“…A complete classification of terrorist attacks based on threats only would require consideration of every target separately (Kebir et al, 2020b;2020d). In practice, however, we must focus on a limited number of attack types, which leads us to consider the vulnerability of a target as an additional scale to recognize the capacity of a target to respond to a specific threat.…”