Contributo in atti di convegno, 2012, ENG, 10.1145/2396761.2398446

Knowing where and how criminal organizations operate using web content

Coscia M., Rios V.

CNR-ISTI, Pisa; Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

We develop a framework that uses Web content to obtain quantitative information about a phenomenon that would otherwise require the operation of large scale, expensive intelligence exercises. Exploiting indexed reliable sources such as online newspapers and blogs, we use unambiguous query terms to characterize a complex evolving phenomena and solve a security policy problem: identifying the areas of operation and modus operandi of criminal organizations, in particular, Mexican drug tracking organizations over the last two decades. We validate our methodology by comparing information that is known with certainty with the one we extracted using our framework.We show that our framework is able to use information available on the web to eciently extract implicit knowledge about criminal organizations. In the scenario of Mexican drug tracking, our ndings provide evidence that criminal organizations are more strategic and operate in more dierentiated ways than current academic literature thought.

The 21st ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, pp. 1412–1421, Maui, Hawaii, USA, October 29-November 2 2012

Keywords

Query, Data retrieval, Knowledge discovery process

CNR authors

Coscia Michele

CNR institutes

ISTI – Istituto di scienza e tecnologie dell'informazione "Alessandro Faedo"

ID: 276136

Year: 2012

Type: Contributo in atti di convegno

Creation: 2014-01-09 15:24:48.000

Last update: 2015-02-23 12:46:13.000

CNR authors

External IDs

CNR OAI-PMH: oai:it.cnr:prodotti:276136

DOI: 10.1145/2396761.2398446

Scopus: 2-s2.0-84871081648

PUMA: 2012-A2-091