Title :
The Regional Crime Analysis Program (ReCAP): a framework for mining data to catch criminals
Author :
Brown, Donald E.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Syst. Eng., Virginia Univ., Charlottesville, VA, USA
Abstract :
Most law enforcement agencies today are faced with enormous quantities of data that must be processed and turned into useful information. Two technologies provide the means to turn data into information: data fusion and data mining. Data fusion organizes, combines and interprets information from multiple sources, and it overcomes confusion from conflicting reports and cluttered or noisy backgrounds. Data mining is concerned with the automatic discovery of patterns and relationships in large databases. This paper describes ReCAP (Regional Crime Analysis Program), which was built to provide crime analysts with both technologies
Keywords :
data mining; police data processing; sensor fusion; very large databases; ReCAP; Regional Crime Analysis Program; automatic pattern discovery; cluttered backgrounds; conflicting reports; criminology; data fusion; data mining; large databases; law enforcement agencies; noisy backgrounds; Algorithm design and analysis; Cities and towns; Data engineering; Data mining; Database systems; Geographic Information Systems; Information analysis; Law enforcement; Spatial databases; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1998. 1998 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4778-1
DOI :
10.1109/ICSMC.1998.725094
