A cloud computing platform for large-scale forensic computing

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

Volumn 306, Issue , 2009, Pages 201-214

  Roussev, Vassil ^a   Wang, Liqiang ^a   Richard, Golden ^a   Marziale, Lodovico ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cluster computing; Large scale forensics; MapReduce

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER COMPUTING; COMPUTER CRIME; ELECTRONIC CRIME COUNTERMEASURES; INDEXING (MATERIALS WORKING);

CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS; FORENSIC COMPUTING; LARGE SCALE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING; LARGE-SCALE FORENSICS; LINEAR SCALING; MAP-REDUCE; OPEN IMPLEMENTATION; PROCESSING MODEL;

COMPUTER FORENSICS;

EID: 84943543512     PISSN: 18684238     EISSN: 1868422X     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04155-6_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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