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Predicting crime hotspots in a city is a complex and critical task with significant societal implications. Numerous spatiotemporal correlations and irregularities pose substantial challenges to this endeavor. Existing methods commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Jiahui Jin , Yi Hong , Guandong Xu , Jinghui Zhang , Jun Tang , Hancheng Wang

Predicting crimes in urban environments is crucial for public safety, yet existing prediction methods often struggle to align the knowledge across diverse cities that vary dramatically in data availability of specific crime types. We…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Fidan Karimova , Tong Chen , Yu Yang , Shazia Sadiq

Finding the factors contributing to criminal activities and their consequences is essential to improve quantitative crime research. To respond to this concern, we examine an extensive set of features from different perspectives and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Fateha Khanam Bappee , Lucas May Petry , Amilcar Soares , Stan Matwin

Recent research has shown that criminal networks have complex organizational structures, but whether this can be used to predict static and dynamic properties of criminal networks remains little explored. Here, by combining graph…

Traffic accident data are usually noisy, contain missing values, and heterogeneous. How to select the most important variables to improve real-time traffic accident risk prediction has become a concern of many recent studies. This paper…

Applications · Statistics 2017-11-01 Lei Lin , Qian Wang , Adel W. Sadek

Gender-based crime is one of the most concerning scourges of contemporary society. Governments worldwide have invested lots of economic and human resources to radically eliminate this threat. Despite these efforts, providing accurate…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Ángel González-Prieto , Antonio Brú , Juan Carlos Nuño , José Luis González-Álvarez

This paper focuses on Crime zone Identification. Then, it clarifies how we conducted the Belief Rule Base algorithm to produce interesting frequent patterns for crime hotspots. The paper also shows how we used an expert system to forecast…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Abhijit Pathak , Abrar Hossain Tasin

It is quite evident that majority of the population lives in urban area today than in any time of the human history. This trend seems to increase in coming years. A study [5] says that nearly 80.7% of total population in USA stays in urban…

Applications · Statistics 2018-10-31 Saroj Kumar Dash , Ilya Safro , Ravisutha Sakrepatna Srinivasamurthy

Deep learning architectures enhanced with human mobility data have been shown to improve the accuracy of short-term crime prediction models trained with historical crime data. However, human mobility data may be scarce in some regions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Jiahui Wu , Vanessa Frias-Martinez

The objective of this study is to develop a good risk model for classifying business delinquency by simultaneously exploring several machine learning based methods including regularization, hyper-parameter optimization, and model ensembling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yan Wang , Xuelei Sherry Ni

Urban safety and security play a crucial role in improving life quality of citizen and the sustainable development of urban. Traditional urban crime research focused on leveraging demographic data, which is insufficient to capture the…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-05-07 Xiangyu Zhao , Jiliang Tang

Philadelphia's problem with high crime rates continues to be exacerbated as Philadelphia's residents, community leaders, and law enforcement officials struggle to address the root causes of the problem and make the city safer for all. In…

Applications · Statistics 2023-06-29 Ishan S. Khare , Tarun K. Martheswaran , Rahul K. Thomas , Aditya Bora

This study presents a machine learning-based framework for heart disease prediction using the heart-disease dataset, comprising 303 samples with 14 features. The methodology involves data preprocessing, model training, and evaluation using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Ali Azimi Lamir , Shiva Razzagzadeh , Zeynab Rezaei

The task of determining crime types based on criminal behavior facts has become a very important and meaningful task in social science. But the problem facing the field now is that the data samples themselves are unevenly distributed, due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Haoxuan Xu , Zeyu He , Mengfan Shen , Songning Lai , Ziqiang Han , Yifan Peng

Road accidents significantly threaten public safety and require in-depth analysis for effective prevention and mitigation strategies. This paper focuses on predicting accidents through the examination of a comprehensive traffic dataset…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Dominic Parosh Yamarthi , Haripriya Raman , Shamsad Parvin

The rapid rise of cyber-crime activities and the growing number of devices threatened by them place software security issues in the spotlight. As around 90% of all attacks exploit known types of security issues, finding vulnerable…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Rudolf Ferenc , Péter Hegedűs , Péter Gyimesi , Gábor Antal , Dénes Bán , Tibor Gyimóthy

We revisit the longstanding question of how physical structures in urban landscapes influence crime. Leveraging machine learning-based matching techniques to control for demographic composition, we estimate the effects of several types of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ziyao Cui , Erick Jiang , Nicholas Sortisio , Haiyan Wang , Eric Chen , Cynthia Rudin

This paper proposes a novel framework to predict traffic flows' bandwidth ahead of time. Modern network management systems share a common issue: the network situation evolves between the moment the decision is made and the moment when…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Maxime Labonne , Jorge López , Claude Poletti , Jean-Baptiste Munier

Statistical values alone cannot bring the whole scenario of crime occurrences in the city of Dhaka. We need a better way to use these statistical values to predict crime occurrences and make the city a safer place to live. Proper…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-12 Mashnoon Islam , Redwanul Karim , Kalyan Roy , Saif Mahmood , Sadat Hossain , M. Rashedur Rahman

This research recasts ransomware detection using performance monitoring and statistical machine learning. The work builds a test environment with 41 input variables to label and compares three computing states: idle, encryption and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-28 David Noever , Samantha Miller Noever