Forensic taxonomy of android productivity apps

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 3313-3341

  Azfar, Abdullah ^a   Choo, Kim Kwang Raymond ^a,b,c   Liu, Lin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^c CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Digital forensics; Forensic science; Forensic taxonomy; Mobile app forensics; Mobile forensics; Productivity app taxonomy

Indexed keywords

MOBILE DEVICES; PRODUCTIVITY; TAXONOMIES;

ANDROID APPS; DIGITAL FORENSIC; END USERS; FORENSIC SCIENCE; MOBILE APP; MOBILE FORENSICS; ONE DIMENSION; PRODUCTIVE WORKFORCE;

ANDROID (OPERATING SYSTEM);

EID: 84978047769     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: 15737721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-016-3718-2     Document Type: Article

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