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No Model Behaviour: Ontologies for Fraud Detection

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Law and the Semantic Web

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This document discusses the status of research on detection and prevention of financial fraud undertaken as part of the IST European Commission funded FF POIROT (Financial Fraud Prevention Oriented Information Resources using Ontology Technology) project, and in particular the interplay of, and tension between, modelling factual and legal aspects of a case.

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Kingston, J., Schafer, B., Vandenberghe, W. (2005). No Model Behaviour: Ontologies for Fraud Detection. In: Benjamins, V.R., Casanovas, P., Breuker, J., Gangemi, A. (eds) Law and the Semantic Web. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3369. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-32253-5_15

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