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Contact information

Dr. mr. Charlotte Gerritsen
Post doc researcher

 

Agent Systems Research
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Department of Computer Science
De Boelelaan 1081a
1081 HV Amsterdam
The Netherlands

phone: +31 (0)20 598 5559
fax: +31 (0)20 598 7653
email: cg@few.vu.nl
office: T-325

 

Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement

Initium

De Boelelaan 1077a

1081 HV Amsterdam

Phone: +31 (0)20 598 5276

email: CGerritsen@nscr.nl

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Research Project

Within Criminology, the analysis of criminal behaviour is a central issue. Such an analysis involves different types of aspects, such as biological, psychological and social aspects and their mutual interactions. Usually such analysis are made by criminologist researchers or practitioners, without using any formalisation or computer support. In recent years much progress has been made in biological, cognitive and social complex dynamical systems modelling within areas such as Artificial Intelligence. The methods developed in these areas, when integrated, open the perspective to address the analysis of criminal behaviour in more exact, formalised and computer supported manners. Thus, the way is opened to a more solid basis and computer support for simulation and analysis. My project explores this potential. It identifies on the one hand useful knowledge from the literature in Criminology and the different disciplines underlying it, and on the other hand a number of dedicated modelling techniques from areas such as Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science. By combining these, an integrated computer supported method to criminal behaviour analysis will be created.

 

Ph.D. Thesis

 

·         Gerritsen, C., Caught in the Act: Investigating Crime by Agent-Based Simulation. VU University, Amsterdam, 2010. pdf



Journal Publications*

* = authors in alphabetical order and all can be regarded as having made a comparable contribution.

2012

·         Bosse, T., Both, F., Gerritsen, C., Hoogendoorn, M., Treur, J., Methods for Model-Based Reasoning within Agent-Based Ambient Intelligence Applications. Knowledge-Based Systems Journal, volume 27, 2012.

 

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Agent-Based Simulation of Episodic Criminal Behaviour. International Journal of Multi-Agent and Grid Systems. To appear, 2011.

 

2011

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Hoogendoorn, M., Jaffry, S.W., and Treur, J., Agent-Based versus Population-Based Simulation of Displacement of Crime: a Comparative Study. Web Intelligence and Agent Systems: An International Journal, IOS Press, volume 9, 2011, to pp. 147-160.

 

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Combining Rational and Biological Factors in Virtual Agent Decision Making. Journal of Applied Intelligence, vol. 34, issue 1, 2011, pp. 87-101.

 

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., On the Relation between Cognitive and Biological Modelling of Criminal Behaviour. Computers in Human Behavior, 27, 2011, pp. 1593-1611.

 

2010

·         Bosse, T. and Gerritsen, C., Social Simulation and Analysis of the Dynamics of Criminal Hot Spots. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, volume 13, issue 2, 2010 (JASSS Link).

·         Bosse, T., Elffers, H., and Gerritsen, C., Simulating the Dynamical Interaction of Offenders, Targets and Guardians. Crime Patterns and Analysis, volume 3, issue 1, 2010, pp. 51-66 pdf (ECCA Link).

 

2009

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Towards Integration of Biological, Psychological, and Social Aspects in Agent-Based Simulation of Violent Offenders. Simulation Journal: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International, volume 85, number 10, pp. 635-660, 2009. pdf

 

Book Chapters*

* = authors in alphabetical order and all can be regarded as having made a comparable contribution.

2009

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Klein, M.C.A., Modelling Social Learning of Adolescence-Limited Criminal Behaviour. In: Filipe, J., Fred, A., and Sharp, B. (eds), Best papers of Agents and Artificial Intelligence 2009. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), pp. 19-32, Springer Verlag, 2009.

 

Conference Publications*

* = authors in alphabetical order and all can be regarded as having made a comparable contribution.

2011

·         Gerritsen, C., The Bystander Effect: Agent-Based Simulation of People’s Reaction to Norm Violation. In: Lu, B., Zhang, L., and Kwok, J. (eds), Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Neural information Processing, ICONIP’11, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 2011, pp. 26-35.

·         Gerritsen, C., Using Ambient Intelligence to Control Aggression in Crowds. In: Proceedings of the Fifth International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence, HAI’11, IEEE Computer Society Press, pp. 53-56.

 

2010

·         Bosse, T., and Gerritsen, C., An Agent-Based Framework to Support Crime Prevention. In: Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS’10, ACM Press, 2010, pp. 525-532. pdf

·         Bosse, T., and Gerritsen, C., A Model-Based Reasoning Approach to Prevent Crime. In: L. Magnani and W. Carnielli (eds.), Proceedings of the International Conference on Model-Based Reasoning in Science and Technology, MBR'09. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol. 314, Springer Verlag, 2010, pp. 159-177. pdf

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Klein, M.C.A., Predicting the Development of Juvenile Delinquency by Simulation. In: Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE'10. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, volume 6097. Springer Verlag, 2010, pp. 565-574. pdf

 

2009

·         Bosse, T., and Gerritsen, C., A Model for Criminal Decision Making based on Hypothetical Reasoning about the Future. In: Ali, M., Chen, S.M., Chien, B.C., Hong, T.P. (eds.), Proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA-AIE 2009. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Springer Verlag, 2009, pp. 24-35. pdf

·         Bosse, T. and Gerritsen, C., Comparing Crime Prevention Strategies by Agent-Based Simulation. In: Proceedings of the 9th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT’09. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009, pp. 491-496. pdf

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Klein, M.C.A., Agent-Based Simulation of Social Learning in Criminology. In: Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, ICAART’09, 2009, pp. 5-13. pdf

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Klein, M.C., and Weerman, F.M., Development and Validation of an Agent-Based Simulation Model of Juvenile Delinquency. In: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Social Intelligence and Networking, SIN’09. In conjunction with the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Social Computing, SocialCom’09. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2009, pp. 200-207. pdf

·         Gerritsen, C., and Hoogendoorn, M., Avoidance of Norm Violation in Multi-Agent Organizations. In: Proceedings of the 23th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, ECMS’09. European Council on Modelling and Simulation, 2009, to appear. pdf

 

2008

·         Bosse, T., Both. F., Gerritsen, C., Hoogendoorn, M., and Treur, J., Model-Based Reasoning Methods within an Ambient Intelligent Agent Model. In: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence, HAAI’07. Published in: M. Mühlhäuser, A. Ferscha, and E. Aitenbichler (eds.), Constructing Ambient Intelligence: AmI-07 Workshops Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), vol. 11, Springer Verlag, 2008, pp. 352-370. pdf

·         Bosse, T., and Gerritsen, C., Agent-Based Simulation of the Spatial Dynamics of Crime: On the Interplay between Criminal Hot Spots and Reputation. In: Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS'08. ACM Press, 2008, pp. 1129-1136. pdf

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Hoogendoorn, M., Jaffry, S.W., and Treur, J., Agent-Based and Population-Based Simulation of Displacement of Crime. In: Ghallab, M. (ed.) Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI’08. IOS Press, 2008, pp. 877-878. pdf

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., Hoogendoorn, M., Jaffry, S.W., and Treur, J., Comparison of Agent-Based and Population-Based Simulations of Displacement of Crime. In: Proceedings of the Seventh IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology, IAT’08. IEEE Computer Society Press, 2008, pp. 469-476. pdf

·         Both, F., Gerritsen, C., Hoogendoorn, M., and Treur, J., Model-Based Default Refinement of Partial Information within an Ambient Agent. In: Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence Methods for Ambient Intelligence. Published in: M. Mühlhäuser, A. Ferscha, and E. Aitenbichler (eds.), Constructing Ambient Intelligence: AmI-07 Workshops Proceedings. Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), vol. 11, Springer Verlag, 2008, pp. 34-43. pdf

 

2007

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Case Analysis of Criminal Behaviour. In: Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA/AIE'07. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Springer Verlag, 2007, pp. 621-632. pdf

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Cognitive and Social Simulation of Criminal Behaviour: the Intermittent Explosive Disorder Case. In: Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS'07. ACM Press, 2007, pp. 367-374. pdf

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Grounding a Cognitive Modelling Approach for Criminal Behaviour. In: Vosniadou, S., Kayser, D., and Protopapas, A. (eds.), Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive Science Conference, EuroCogSci'07. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2007, pp. 776-781. pdf

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Integrating Rational Choice and Subjective Biological and Psychological Factors in Criminal Behaviour Models. In: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling, ICCM'07. Taylor and Francis, 2007, pp. 181-186. pdf

·         Bosse, T., Gerritsen, C., and Treur, J., Integration of Biological, Psychological and Social Aspects in Agent-Based Simulation of a Violent Psychopath. In: Shi, Y., Albada, G.D. van, Dongarra, J., and Sloot, P.M.A. (eds.), Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS'07. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol.4488, Springer Verlag, 2007, pp. 888-895. pdf

 

Other Publications

·         Gerritsen, C. (2011). Politiesurveillance: concentratie werkt beter dan spreiding. Kennislink link

  

Teaching

 

PC Membership

·         Cognitive Science Society (CogSci)

·         European Conference on Modelling and Simulation (ECMS)

·         IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom)

·         IADIS International Conference Intelligent Systems and Agents (ISA)

·         International Work-conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation (IWINAC)

·         International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies Technologies and Applications (SIMULTECH)