Virtual flow-net for accountability and forensics of computer and network systems

Security and Communication Networks

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2509-2526

  Takahashi, Daisuke ^a   Xiao, Yang ^a   Meng, Ke ^a  

^a Department of Computer Science   (United States)

Author keywords

Accountability; Flow net; Forensics; Social networks; User relationship graph

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER FORENSICS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ACCOUNTABILITY; COMPUTER AND NETWORKS; FLOW-NET; FORENSICS; INFORMATION FLOWS; PROBABILISTIC ANALYSIS; RELATIONSHIP GRAPHS; VIRTUAL LINK;

FLOW GRAPHS;

EID: 84911882464     PISSN: 19390114     EISSN: 19390122     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sec.407     Document Type: Article

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