Towards a Story Scheme Ontology of Terrorist MOs
J. G. T. Peters, Floris Bex · 2020
Crime investigation and criminal intelligence analysis often rely on the notion of modus operandi. We propose modelling such MOs as story schemes and show how real-life terrorist incidents can be assigned to such schemes. We discuss several requirements of MO schemes and present an implementation in the form of an OWL ontology. This ontology is intended as a conceptual model to be used to support a sensemaking process, whereby crime intelligence analysts populate the ontology with instance data.