@inproceedings{b21e4149ff7e4dcb88637e8d4389c1ac,
title = "MIST: Missing person Intelligence Synthesis Toolkit",
abstract = "Each day, approximately 500 missing persons cases occur that go unsolved/unresolved in the United States. The nonprofit organization known as the Find Me Group (FMG), led by former law enforcement professionals, is dedicated to solving or resolving these cases. This paper introduces the Missing Person Intelligence Synthesis Toolkit (MIST) which leverages a data-driven variant of geospatial abductive inference. This system takes search locations provided by a group of experts and rank-orders them based on the probability assigned to areas based on the prior performance of the experts taken as a group. We evaluate our approach compared to the current practices employed by the Find Me Group and found it significantly reduces the search area - Leading to a reduction of 31 square miles over 24 cases we examined in our experiments. Currently, we are using MIST to aid the Find Me Group in an active missing person case.",
keywords = "Abductive inference, Geospatial abduction, Law enforcement, Missing person",
author = "Elham Shaabani and Hamidreza Alvari and Paulo Shakarian and Snyder, {J. E Kelly}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 ACM.; 25th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, CIKM 2016 ; Conference date: 24-10-2016 Through 28-10-2016",
year = "2016",
month = oct,
day = "24",
doi = "10.1145/2983323.2983346",
language = "English (US)",
series = "International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery",
pages = "1843--1852",
booktitle = "CIKM 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management",
}