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Title Artificial crime analysis systems : using computer simulations and geographic information systems / Lin Liu, John Eck [editors]
Published Hershey : Information Science Reference, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 485 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Preface : An overview of crime simulation / Lin Liu and John Eck -- Section I. The role of simulation in crime research -- The need for systematic replication and tests of validity in simulation / Michael Townsley and Shane Johnson -- Realistic spatial backcloth is not that important in agent based simulation research : an illustration from the simulating perceptual deterrence / Henk Elffers and Pieter Van Baal -- Visualization of criminal activity in an urban population / Alex Breuer [and others] -- GIS-based simulation and visualization of urban landuse change / Md Mahbubur R. Meenar -- Section II. Streets, networks, and crime distribution -- Modelling pedestrian movement to measure on-street crime risk / Spencer Chainey and Jake Desyllas -- Core models for state-of-the-art microscopic traffic simulation and key elements for applications / Heng Wei -- Simulating urban dynamics using cellular automata / Xia Li -- Space-time measures of crime diffusion / Youngho Kim -- Section III. Crime event and pattern simulations -- Synthesis over analysis : towards an ontology for volume crime simulation / Daniel J. Birks, Susan Donkin, and Melanie Wellsmith -- Offender mobility and crime pattern formation from first principles / P. Jeffrey Brantingham and George Tita -- Crime simulation using GIS and artificial intelligent agents / Xuguang Wang, Lin Liu, and John Eck -- Characterizing the spatio-temporal aspects of routine activities and the geographic distribution of street robbery / Elizabeth Groff -- Mastermind : computational modeling and simulation of spatiotemporal aspects of crime in urban environments / P.L. Brantingham [and others] -- The simulation of the journey to residential burglary / Karen L. Hayslett-McCall [and others] -- Simulating crime against properties using swarm intelligence and social networks / Vasco Furtado [and others] -- FraudSim : simulating fraud in a public delivery program / Yushim Kim and Ningchuan Xiao -- Section IV. Criminal justice operation simulations -- Development of an intelligent patrol routing system using GIS and computer simulations / Joseph Szakas [and others] -- Drug law enforcement in an agent-based model : simulating the disruption to street-level drug markets / Anne Dray [and others] -- Using varieties of simulation modeling for criminal justice system analysis / Azadeh Alimadad [and others] -- Section V. Conclusion -- Varieties of artificial crime analysis : purpose, structure, and evidence in crime simulations / John Eck and Lin Liu
Summary "This book discusses leading research on the use of computer simulation of crime patterns to reveal hidden processes of urban crimes, taking an interdisciplinary approach by combining criminology, computer simulation, and geographic information systems into one comprehensive resource"--Provided by publisher
Notes "Premier reference source"--Cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-466) and index
Notes English
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Subject Crime analysis -- Data processing
Criminology -- Computer network resources
Digital mapping.
Information storage and retrieval systems -- Law enforcement.
Geographic information systems.
Geographic Information Systems
geographic information systems.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology.
Crime analysis -- Data processing.
Criminology -- Computer network resources.
Digital mapping.
Geographic information systems.
Information storage and retrieval systems -- Law enforcement.
Form Electronic book
Author Liu, Lin, 1965-
Eck, John E
ISBN 9781599045931
1599045931
9781599045917
1599045915