AICAMS: artificial intelligence crime analysis and management system

Expert systems and artificial intelligence technologies have a significant role to play in the development of tools to support police operations. Syst ems have been successfully demonstrated in the areas of breaking and enteri ng, criminal profiling, tracking serial criminals and others. In this paper , we describe the development of a system that will support police investig ations in several crime areas. The methodology has been adapted from that u sed in several North American breaking and entering projects, to meet the r equirements of the Hong Kong police. The system is initially rule-based, wi th provisions for investigating machine-learning and neural network techniq ues to improve performance and makes extensive use of existing data sources . The development of the initial demonstration system is described and the methodology is discussed. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserve d.