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SIIMCO: A forensic investigation tool for identifying the influential members of a criminal organization.

Taha, K. and Yoo, P., 2016. SIIMCO: A forensic investigation tool for identifying the influential members of a criminal organization. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, 11 (4), 811 - 822.

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DOI: 10.1109/TIFS.2015.2510826

Abstract

Members of a criminal organization, who hold central positions in the organization, are usually targeted by criminal investigators for removal or surveillance. This is because they play key and influential roles by acting as commanders, who issue instructions or serve as gatekeepers. Removing these central members (i.e., influential members) is most likely to disrupt the organization and put it out of business. Most often, criminal investigators are even more interested in knowing the portion of these influential members, who are the immediate leaders of lower level criminals. These lower level criminals are the ones who usually carry out the criminal works; therefore, they are easier to identify. The ultimate goal of investigators is to identify the immediate leaders of these lower level criminals in order to disrupt future crimes. We propose, in this paper, a forensic analysis system called SIIMCO that can identify the influential members of a criminal organization. Given a list of lower level criminals in a criminal organization, SIIMCO can also identify the immediate leaders of these criminals. SIIMCO first constructs a network representing a criminal organization from either mobile communication data that belongs to the organization or crime incident reports. It adopts the concept space approach to automatically construct a network from crime incident reports. In such a network, a vertex represents an individual criminal, and a link represents the relationship between two criminals. SIIMCO employs formulas that quantify the degree of influence/importance of each vertex in the network relative to all other vertices. We present these formulas through a series of refinements. All the formulas incorporate novelweighting schemes for the edges of networks. We evaluated the quality of SIIMCO by comparing it experimentally with two other systems. Results showed marked improvement.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:1556-6013
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Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:24341
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:11 Jul 2016 13:51
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 13:57

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