@inbook{df25e5a3d49e4e3c955d6259d891a033,
title = "Collaborative workflow management for interagency crime analysis",
abstract = "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.",
author = "Zhao, {J. Leon} and Bi, {Henry H.} and Hsinchun Chen",
year = "2003",
doi = "10.1007/3-540-44853-5_20",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "354040189X",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer-Verlag",
pages = "266--280",
editor = "Hsinchun Chen and Zeng, {Daniel D.} and Therani Madhusudan and Richard Miranda and Jenny Schroeder and Chris Demchak",
booktitle = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
}