Process-driven collaboration support for intra-agency crime analysis
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- 作者：J. Leon Zhao ; Henry H. Bi ; Hsinchun Chen ; Daniel D. Zeng ; Chienting Lin and Michael Chau
- 关键词：Collaborative workflow ; Crime analysis ; Collaboration support systems ; Law enforcement applications
- 刊名：Decision Support Systems
- 出版年：2006
- 出版时间：March 2006
- 年：2006
- 卷：41
- 期：3
- 页码：616-633
- 全文大小：1142 K
文摘
In law enforcement applications, there is a critical need for new tools that can facilitate efficient and effective collaboration. Through a field study, we observe that crime analysis, a critical component of law enforcement operations, is knowledge intensive and often involves collaborative efforts from multiple law enforcement officers within and across agencies. To better facilitate such knowledge intensive collaboration and thereby improve law enforcement agencies' crime-fighting capabilities, we propose a novel methodology based on modeling and implementation techniques from workflow management and information retrieval. This paper presents this process-driven collaboration methodology and its prototype implementation as part of an integrated law enforcement information management environment called COPLINK.