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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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The papers are organized in topical sections on criminal and social network analysis, intelligence analysis and knowledge discovery, Web-based intelligence monitoring and analysis, privacy protection, access control, and digital rights…