Introduction
Despite the good news, crime is still prevalent in most large cities. In the USA, the FBI reports that in 2013 there were about 3,098 crimes per 100,000 habitants, with 2,730 of them being property crimes and 367 violent. Unveiling the structure and the dynamics of criminal activity can lead to a better understanding of crime as a whole which in turn can help us provide better cities to our citizens.
The understanding of crime activity has for a long time puzzled government officials, law-enforcement officers, and researchers. Law enforcement tends to be reactive and many times a step behind criminal activity. What if we could change this “game”? What if we could give the police an edge by making them understand criminal structure and perhaps prevent some activity before it takes place?
This event has been put together to bring researchers from various fields including, criminology, sociology, physics, computer science, mathematics, law-enforcement to an open forum to discuss the role of Network Science in understanding the structure and dynamics of crime.
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Submission Topics
A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest include:
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Understanding crime as a complex system;
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criminal networks;
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crime modeling;
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dynamics and structure of transnational crime;
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dynamics of criminal hotspots in cities;
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dynamics of terrorist events;
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crime prediction in cities;
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spatial regularities of crime in cities;
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use of social media for crime analysis;
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dynamics of cyber-crime;
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interplay of criminal events and social-economic factors;
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use of communication data in criminal activity;
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detection of criminal organization in cities
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relationship between human mobility and crime;
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visualization of illegal activities;
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social network analysis in crime data
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network-based tools for analyzing crime
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visualization of criminal data in cities
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and others.
Guidlines
Submissions will be evaluated and selected by the Program Committee, based on the adherence to the workshop theme, originality and scientific quality. Once an abstract has been accepted, at least one author is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. Please note that the participants must register in the NetSci general conference.
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Important Date
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Conference Date
Jun 19
2017
toJun 23
2017
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Mar 10 2017
Draft paper submission deadline
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Mar 26 2017
Draft Paper Acceptance Notification
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Jun 23 2017
Registration deadline
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