Serious Games for Enhancing Law Enforcement Agencies: From Virtual Reality to Augmented Reality Hardcover - 2019

Babak Akhgar is Professor of Informatics and Director of CENTRIC (Centre of Excellence in Terrorism, Resilience, Intelligence and Organized Crime Research) at Sheffield Hallam University, UK and Fellow of the British Computer Society. He has more than 130 refereed publications in international journals and conferences on strategic information systems with specific focus on knowledge management (KM) and intelligence management. He is member of editorial boards of several international journals and has acted as Chair and Program Committee Member for numerous international conferences. He has extensive and hands-on experience in the development, management and execution of KM-projects and large international security initiatives (e.g., the application of social media in crisis management, intelligence-based combating of terrorism and organized crime, gun crime, cyber-crime and cyber terrorism and cross-cultural ideology polarization). In addition to this, he acts as technicallead in EU security projects (e.g., the EU H2020-project TENSOR on dark web). He has co-edited numerous books on Intelligence Management; for instance, "Emerging Trends in ICT Security", "Application of Big Data for National Security", "Open Source Intelligence Investigation" and "Combatting Cybercrime and Cyberterrorism". Prof Akhgar is board member of the European Organisation for Security (EOS) and member of the academic advisory board of SAS UK.