Identifying cliques in dark web forums - An agglomerative clustering approach

ISI 2012 - 2012 IEEE International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics: Cyberspace, Border, and Immigration Securities

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 171-173

  Anwar, Tarique ^a   Abulaish, Muhammad ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Agglomerative clustering; Clique discovery; Cyber security; Dark Web forums

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATIVE CLUSTERING; CLIQUE DISCOVERY; CYBER SECURITY; DARK WEB FORUMS; SIMILARITY FUNCTIONS; TEMPORAL COHERENCE; TIME-STAMP;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLUSTER ANALYSIS;

EID: 84867371471     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISI.2012.6284289     Document Type: Conference Paper

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