Towards discovering criminal communities from textual data

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 172-177

  Al Zaidy, Rabeah ^a   Fung, Benjamin C M ^a   Youssef, Amr M ^a  

^a Concordia University ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

community discovery; crime investigation; data mining; forensic analysis

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY DISCOVERY; CRIME INVESTIGATION; CRIMINAL CASE; CRIMINAL NETWORKS; DIGITAL FORENSIC; FORENSIC ANALYSIS; POLICE DATABASE; SOCIAL NETWORKS; SOFTWARE TOOL; TEXT DOCUMENT; TEXTUAL DATA;

CRIME; DATA MINING; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; FEEDBACK; INVESTMENTS;

COMPUTER CRIME;

EID: 79959297930     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1982185.1982225     Document Type: Conference Paper

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