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To strengthen homeland security, there is a critical need for new tools that can facilitate real time collaboration among various law enforcement agencies. Through a field study, we find that law enforcement work is knowledge intensive and involves complex collaborative processes interrelating a large number of disparate units in a loosely defined virtual organization. To support knowledge intensive collaboration, we propose a new workflow centric framework to seamlessly integrate previously separate techniques from the fields of information retrieval and workflow management. Specifically, we develop a collaborative workflow management framework for interagency crime analysis. The key contribution of our research is that by integrating various state-of-the-art techniques innovatively, the proposed system can support real time collaboration processes in a virtual organization that evolves dynamically.
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Zhao, J.L., Bi, H.H., Chen, H. (2003). Collaborative Workflow Management for Interagency Crime Analysis. In: Chen, H., Miranda, R., Zeng, D.D., Demchak, C., Schroeder, J., Madhusudan, T. (eds) Intelligence and Security Informatics. ISI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2665. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44853-5_20
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