As the information age comes to fruition, terrorist networks have moved mainstream by promoting their
causes via the World Wide Web. In addition to their standard rhetoric, these organizations provide anyone with an
Internet connection the ability to access dangerous information involving the creation and implementation of
Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs). Unfortunately for governments combating terrorism, IED education networks
can be very difficult to find and even harder to monitor. Regular commercial search engines are not up to this task, as
they have been optimized to catalog information quickly and efficiently for user ease of access while promoting retail
commerce at the same time. This thesis presents a performance analysis of a new search engine algorithm designed to
help find IED education networks using the Nutch open-source search engine architecture. It reveals which web
pages are more important via references from other web pages regardless of domain. In addition, this thesis discusses
potential evaluation and monitoring techniques to be used in conjunction with the proposed algorithm.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:nps.edu/oai:calhoun.nps.edu:10945/7289 |
| Date | 06 1900 |
| Creators | Stinson, Robert T. III |
| Contributors | Su, Weilian, Fouts, Douglas |
| Publisher | Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California: Naval Postgraduate School |
| Source Sets | Naval Postgraduate School |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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