Machine learning partners in criminal networks

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 representation learning and machine learning methods, we show that str...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2022-09, Vol.12 (1), p.15746-15746, Article 15746
Main Authors: Lopes, Diego D., Cunha, Bruno R. da, Martins, Alvaro F., Gonçalves, Sebastián, Lenzi, Ervin K., Hanley, Quentin S., Perc, Matjaž, Ribeiro, Haroldo V.
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Money laundering
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