A massively parallel architecture for a self-organizing neural pattern recognition machine
Computer Vision, Graphics, and Image Processing
Neural Networks
Data mining with neural networks: solving business problems from application development to decision support
Survey of expert opinion: which machine learning method may be used for which task?
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
Data mining
ICANN 96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks
Neural network models in predicting insurance insolvency and detecting insurance claim fraud
Neural network models in predicting insurance insolvency and detecting insurance claim fraud
Prediction of past unsolved terrorist attacks
ISI'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE international conference on Intelligence and security informatics
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The data mining field in computer science specializes in extracting implicit information that is distributed across the stored data records and/or exists as associations among groups of records. Criminal databases contain information on the crimes themselves, the offenders, the victims as well as the vehicles that were involved ill the crime. Among these records lie groups of crimes that can be attributed to serial criminals who are responsible for multiple criminal offenses and usually exhibit patterns in their operations, by specializing in a particular crime category (i.e., rape, murder, robbery, etc.), and applying a specific method for implementing their crimes. Discovering serial criminal patterns in crime databases is, in general, a clustering activity in the area of data mining that is concerned with detecting trends in the data by classifying and grouping similar records. In this paper, we report on the different statistical and neural network approaches to the clustering problem in data mining in general, and as it applies to our crime domain in particular. We discuss our approach of using a cascaded network of Kohonen neural networks followed by heuristic processing of the networks outputs that best simulated the experts in the field. We address the issues in this project and the reasoning behind this approach, including: the choice of neural networks, in general, over statistical algorithms as the main tool, and tile use of Kohonen networks in particular, the choice for the cascaded approach instead of the direct approach, and the choice of a heuristics subsystem as a back-end subsystem to the neural networks. We also report on the advantages of this approach over both the traditional approach of using a single neural network to accommodate all the attributes, and that of applying a single clustering algorithm on all the data attributes.