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Crawling Open-Source Data for Indicators of Human Trafficking (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brewster, B., Ingle, T., & Rankin, G. (2014, December). Crawling Open-Source Data for Indicators of Human Trafficking. Presented at 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC), London, United Kingdom

Information available from open-source mediums such as the web and social media are increasingly being used to aid the response to emergent crimes and reinforce existing Law Enforcement Agency intelligence capability. In this paper we discuss the rat... Read More about Crawling Open-Source Data for Indicators of Human Trafficking.

Social media and its role for LEAs: Review and applications (2014)
Book Chapter
Bayerl, P. S., Akhgar, B., Brewster, B., Domdouzis, K., & Gibson, H. (2014). Social media and its role for LEAs: Review and applications. In B. Akhgar, A. Staniforth, & F. Bosco (Eds.), Cyber Crime and Cyber Terrorism Investigator's Handbook (197-220). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-800743-3.00016-5

Social media has become a major aspect of online activity, and thus an essential part of cybercrime and cyber terrorism-related operations. As LEA’s (law enforcement agencies) focus upon cybercrime and cyber terrorism threats increase, so does the re... Read More about Social media and its role for LEAs: Review and applications.

Knowledge Management and Human Trafficking: Using Conceptual Knowledge Representation, Text Analytics and Open-Source Data to Combat Organized Crime (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brewster, B., Polovina, S., Rankin, G., & Andrews, S. (2014, July). Knowledge Management and Human Trafficking: Using Conceptual Knowledge Representation, Text Analytics and Open-Source Data to Combat Organized Crime. Presented at 21st International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2014, Iaşi, Romania

Globalization, the ubiquity of mobile communications and the rise of the web have all expanded the environment in which organized criminal entities are conducting their illicit activities, and as a result the environment that law enforcement agencies... Read More about Knowledge Management and Human Trafficking: Using Conceptual Knowledge Representation, Text Analytics and Open-Source Data to Combat Organized Crime.

Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brewster, B., Andrews, S., Polovina, S., Hirsch, L., & Akhgar, B. (2014, July). Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats. Presented at 21st International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2014, Iaşi, Romania

ePOOLICE aims at developing an efficient and effective strategic early warning system that utilises environmental scanning for the early warning and detection of current, emergent and future organised crime threats. Central to this concept is the use... Read More about Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats.