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Extraction of Common Concepts for the Mobile Forensics Domain

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Recent Trends in Information and Communication Technology (IRICT 2017)

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With the rapid development of technology, mobile devices have become an essential tool in terms of crime fighting and criminal investigation. However, many mobile forensics investigators face difficulties with the forensics investigation process in their domain. The difficulties are due to the heavy reliance of the forensics field on knowledge as a valuable resource, a resource that is scattered and widely dispersed. Wide dispersion of mobile forensics knowledge not only makes investigation difficult for new investigators, resulting in substantial waste of time, but also leads to confusion in concepts and terminologies of mobile forensics domain. This paper proposes a common concept for the mobile forensics domain based on the concepts extraction process. The proposed concepts contribute to simplifying the investigation process and enables investigation teams to capture and reuse specialized forensic knowledge, thereby reducing the conceptual and terminological confusion in the mobile forensics domain.

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The authors would like to thank the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia (MOHE) and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia through FRGS Grant No. Q.J130000.2528.14H82. We also would like to thank CyberSecurity Malaysia, Associate Professor Jim Jones, Ms. Eman Badri and Mr. Greg Smith Trewmte for their evaluation this work.

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    Abdulalem Ali, Shukor Abd Razak, Siti Hajar Othman & Arafat Mohammed

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Ali, A., Razak, S.A., Othman, S.H., Mohammed, A. (2018). Extraction of Common Concepts for the Mobile Forensics Domain. In: Saeed, F., Gazem, N., Patnaik, S., Saed Balaid, A., Mohammed, F. (eds) Recent Trends in Information and Communication Technology. IRICT 2017. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-59427-9_16

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