Constructing and analyzing criminal networks

Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy

Volumn 2014-January, Issue , 2014, Pages 84-91

  Sarvari, Hamed ^a   Abozinadah, Ehab ^a   Mbaziira, Alex ^a   McCoy, Damon ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Analysis; Community detection; Criminal networks; Cybercrime; Social graph

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PRIVACY; ELECTRONIC MAIL; GRAPH STRUCTURES; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE);

ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY DETECTION; CRIMINAL NETWORKS; CYBERCRIME; SOCIAL GRAPHS;

CRIME;

EID: 84939497405     PISSN: 10816011     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SPW.2014.22     Document Type: Conference Paper

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