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International Conference on Intelligence and Security Informatics

ISI 2005: Intelligence and Security Informatics pp 368–373Cite as

Discovering Identity Problems: A Case Study

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Identity resolution is central to fighting against crime and terrorist activities in various ways. Current information systems and technologies deployed in law enforcement agencies are neither adequate nor effective for identity resolution. In this research we conducted a case study in a local police department on problems that produce difficulties in retrieving identity information. We found that more than half (55.5%) of the suspects had either a deceptive or an erroneous counterpart existing in the police system. About 30% of the suspects had used a false identity (i.e., intentional deception), while 42% had records alike due to various types of unintentional errors. We built a taxonomy of identity problems based on our findings.

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  1. Department of Management Information Systems, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721

    Alan G. Wang, Homa Atabakhsh & Hsinchun Chen

  2. Tucson Police Department, Tucson, AZ, 85701

    Tim Petersen

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Library and Information Science, Rutgers University,  

    Paul Kantor

  2. School of Communication, Information and Library Studies, Rutgers University, 4 Huntington Street, 08901-1071, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

    Gheorghe Muresan

  3. Artificial Solutions, Altonaer Poststraße 13b, 22767, Hamburg, Germany

    Fred Roberts

  4. MIS Department, University of Arizona, 85721, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Daniel D. Zeng

  5. Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Fei-Yue Wang

  6. Department of Management Information Systems, Eller College of Management, The University of Arizona, 85721, AZ, USA

    Hsinchun Chen

  7. College of Computing, Georgia Tech Information Security Center, Georgia Institute of Technology, 801 Atlantic Drive, 30332-0280, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ralph C. Merkle

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Wang, A.G., Atabakhsh, H., Petersen, T., Chen, H. (2005). Discovering Identity Problems: A Case Study. In: Kantor, P., et al. Intelligence and Security Informatics. ISI 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3495. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11427995_30

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11427995_30

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

  • Print ISBN: 978-3-540-25999-2

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