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Brian Amanatullah
dblp:169/3003
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2ranked-venue papers
0as first author
0since 2021 · last 2018
—ORCID · none
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Databases, data management, data science and information retrieval · 2Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 1
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Computational social science and digital humanities · 100% |
Topics — the 1 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computational social science and digital humanities › social network analysis
criminal network analysis |
0.3 | 1 | 2018 | The Impact of Environmental Stressors on Human Trafficking · ICDM 2018 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
probabilistic soft logic · 0.3probabilistic graphical model · 0.3collective inference · 0.3
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | The Impact of Environmental Stressors on Human TraffickingabstractSevere environmental events have extreme effects on all segments of society, including criminal activity. Extreme weather events, such as tropical storms, fires, and floods create instability in communities, and can be exploited by criminal organizations. Here we investigate the potential impact of catastrophic storms on the criminal activity of human trafficking. We propose three theories of how these catastrophic storms might impact trafficking and provide evidence for each. Researching human trafficking is made difficult by its illicit nature and the obscurity of high-quality data. Here, we analyze online advertisements for services which can be collected at scale and provide insights into traffickers' behavior. To successfully combine relevant heterogenous sources of information, as well as spatial and temporal structure, we propose a collective, probabilistic approach. We implement this approach with Probabilistic Soft Logic, a probabilistic programming framework which can flexibly model relational structure and for which inference of future locations is highly efficient. Furthermore, this framework can be used to model hidden structure, such as latent links between locations. Our proposed approach can model and predict how traffickers move. In addition, we propose a model which learns connections between locations. This model is then adapted to have knowledge of environmental events, and we demonstrate that incorporating knowledge of environmental events can improve prediction of future locations. While we have validated our models on the impact of severe weather on human trafficking, we believe our models can be generalized to a variety of other settings in which environmental events impact human behavior. Sabina Tomkins, Golnoosh Farnadi, Brian Amanatullah, Lise Getoor, Steven Minton |
ICDM | 3 |
| 2015 | Building and Using a Knowledge Graph to Combat Human Trafficking
Pedro A. Szekely, Craig A. Knoblock, Jason Slepicka, Andrew Philpot, Chengye Yin, Dipsy Kapoor, Premkumar Natarajan, Daniel Marcu, Kevin Knight, David Stallard, Subessware S. Karunamoorthy, Rajagopal Bojanapalli, Steven Minton, Brian Amanatullah, Todd Hughes, Mike Tamayo, David Flynt, Rachel Artiss, Shih-Fu Chang, Tao Chen 0015, Gerald Hiebel, Lidia Silva Ferreira |
ISWC (2) | 15 |