Saving rhinos with predictive analytics

This article, the first entry in the new Predictive Analytics column, looks at the problem of animal poaching. The authors describe their Anti-Poaching Engine system, which builds on behavior models of both rhinos and poachers to protect as many animals as possible.

Authors

• Noseong Park Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
• Edoardo Serra Boise State University
• V.S. Subrahmanian Northwestern University

Keywords

• Animals
• Data models
• Planning
• Predictive models
• Computational modeling
• Behavioral Model
• Poaching
• Route Planning
• Prediction Analysis
• Conditional Probability
• Kriging
• Average Elevation
• Association Rules
• Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique
• rhinos
• Anti-Poaching Engine
• predictive analytics