Automated criminal link analysis based on domain knowledge

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 842-855

  Schroeder, Jennifer ^a   Xu, Jennifer ^b   Chen, Hsinchun ^c   Chau, Michael ^d  

^a Tucson Police Department   (United States)

^b BENTLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED CRIMINAL LINK ANALYSIS; CO-OCCURRENCE ANALYSIS; DATASETS;

DATA STRUCTURES; HEURISTIC METHODS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; ONLINE SEARCHING; PROBLEM SOLVING; RAPID PROTOTYPING;

ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES;

EID: 34247141976     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20552     Document Type: Article

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