Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: Detecting Key Players in 11-M Terrorist Network: A Case Study

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles

"Detecting Key Players in 11-M Terrorist Network: A Case Study"
by Nasrullah Memon and David Hicks
in the Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, 2008. (ARES) March 2008, pp.1254-1259

After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE’s Publication Principles.

This paper has copied portions of text from the sources cited below. The lead author, Nasrullah Memon, was found to be solely responsible for the violation. The original text was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission.

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This article focuses on the study and development of recently introduced new measures, theories, mathematical models and algorithms to detect key players in March 11 Madrid train bombing terrorist network. Specific models and tools are described, and applied to a case study to demonstrate their applicability to the area. We are confident that the models described can help intelligence agencies in understanding and splitting terrorist networks.