Refereed full papers (journals, book chapters, international conferences)

2001

@inproceedings{AdM2001,
	vgclass =	{refpap},
	author =	{Richard Adderley and Peter B. Musgrove},
	title =	{Data mining case study: modeling the behavior of offenders
	who commit serious sexual assaults},
	booktitle =	{Proceedings of the Seventh ACM SIGKDD International
	Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining},
	address =	{San Francisco, CA, USA},
	month =	{August~26--29},
	year =	{2001},
	url =	{http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/502512.502541},
	abstract =	{This paper looks at the use of a Self Organizing Map
	(SOM), to link of records of crimes of serious sexual attacks. Once
	linked a profile can be derived of the offender(s) responsible.The data
	was drawn from the major crimes database at the National Crime Faculty
	of the National Police Staff College Bramshill UK. The data was encoded
	from text by a small team of specialists working to a well-defined
	protocol. The encoded data was analyzed using SOMs. Two exercises were
	conducted. These resulted in the linking of several offences in to
	clusters each of which were sufficiently similar to have possibly been
	committed by the same offender(s). A number of clusters were used to
	form profiles of offenders. Some of these profiles were confirmed by
	independent analysts as either belonging to known offenders or appeared
	sufficiently interesting to warrant further investigation.The prototype
	was developed over 10 weeks. This contrasts with an in-house study
	using a conventional approach, which took 2 years to reach similar
	results. As a consequence of this study the NCF intends to pursue an
	in-depth follow up study.},
}