Compared to other types of social networks, criminal networks present particularly hard
challenges, due to their strong resilience to disruption, which poses severe hurdles to Law …

Link prediction exercises may prove particularly challenging with noisy and incomplete
networks, such as criminal networks. Also, the link prediction effectiveness may vary across …

Remanufacturing is one of the most examined topics in the closed-loop supply chain (CLSC)
literature. However, we still have limited knowledge on the characteristics of the market for …

In this paper, we focus on the study of Sicilian Mafia organizations through Social Network
Analysis. We analyse datasets reflecting two different Mafia Families, based on …

Abstract Recently, Social Network Analysis studies have led to an improvement and to a
generalization of existing tools to networks with multiple subsystems and layers of …

Real-world complex systems can be modeled as homogeneous or heterogeneous graphs
composed by nodes connected by edges. The importance of nodes and edges is formally …

One of the most basic question in the analysis of social networks is to find nodes that are of
particular relevance in the network. The answer that emerged in the recent literature is that …

With the advancement of the Internet and related technologies, many traditional crimes have
made the leap to digital environments. The successes of data mining in a wide variety of …

Criminal investigations face a deluge of structured and unstructured data obtained from
heterogeneous sources like forensic reports or wiretap transcriptions. In these cases, finding …

Abstract Social Network Analysis (SNA) studies groups of individuals and can be applied in
a lot of areas such us organizational studies, psychology, economics, information science …