All Outputs (3)

Organised Crime and Social Media: Detecting and Corroborating Weak Signals of Human Trafficking Online (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Andrews, S., Brewster, B., & Day, T. (2016). Organised Crime and Social Media: Detecting and Corroborating Weak Signals of Human Trafficking Online. In Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning: 22nd International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2016, Annecy, France, July 5-7, 2016, Proceedings (137-150). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40985-6_11

This paper describes an approach for detecting the presence or emergence of Organised Crime (OC) signals on Social Media. It shows how words and phrases, used by members of the public in Social Media, can be treated as weak signals of OC, enabling in... Read More about Organised Crime and Social Media: Detecting and Corroborating Weak Signals of Human Trafficking Online.

Crawling Open-Source Data for Indicators of Human Trafficking (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Brewster, B., Ingle, T., & Rankin, G. (2014). Crawling Open-Source Data for Indicators of Human Trafficking. In 2014 IEEE/ACM 7th International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing. https://doi.org/10.1109/ucc.2014.116

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.

Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Brewster, B., Andrews, S., Polovina, S., Hirsch, L., & Akhgar, B. (2023). Environmental Scanning and Knowledge Representation for the Detection of Organised Crime Threats. In N. Hernandez, R. Jäschke, & M. Croitoru (Eds.), Graph-Based Representation and Reasoning: 21st International Conference on Conceptual Structures, ICCS 2014, Iaşi, Romania, July 27-30, 2014, Proceedings (275-280). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08389-6_22

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.