PROPHETS

Preventing Radicalisation Online through the Proliferation of Harmonised ToolkitS

PROPHETS will look at redefining new methods to prevent, investigate and mitigate cybercriminal behaviours through the development of a coherent, EU-wide, adaptive SECURITY MODEL, built upon the interplay of the human factors within the new cyber ecosystem and capable of addressing the four fundamental dimensions at the core of the phenomenon: (i) early identification of security threats; (ii) investigations within a new public-private governance; (iii) increased complexity of the response due to the expansion of the security perimeter towards new societal fields and the emergence of challenging jurisdictional problems; and, last but not least, (iv) perception of security and freedoms among citizens, which requires a new communication strategy for LEAs and security policy makers.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. R. Karlović, H. Nitsch, S. E. Fikenscher, D. Osterman, S. Menexis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris,and A. Sahar (2022). "The Threat of Behavioral Radicalization Online: Conceptual Challenges and Technical Solutions Provided by the PROPHETS (Preventing Radicalization Online through the Proliferation of Harmonized ToolkitS) Project". In G. Markarian, R. Karlovic, H. Nitsch and K. Chandramouli (eds.) Security Technologies and Social Implications: A European Perspective. (accepted for publication).
  2. O. Theodosiadou, K. Pantelidou, N. Bastas, D. Chatzakou, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Change Point Detection in Terrorism-Related Online Content Using Deep Learning Derived Indicators". Information 2021, 12, 274. OPEN ACCESS
  3. N. Bastas, G. Kalpakis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis & Y. Kompatsiaris, "A comparative study of clustering methods using word embeddings", in Proceedings of the 2019 European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC 2019), Oulu, Finland, 24-26 November 2019. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9108898
  4. G. Kalpakis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Identifying terrorism-related key actors in multidimensional social networks", in Proc. 25th Int. Conf. on Multimedia Modeling (MMM2019), Thessaloniki, Greece, Jan. 2019. OPEN ACCESS