Component-Based Architecture for Systems, Services and Data Integration in Support for Criminal Analysis

Criminal analysis processes is based on heterogeneous data processing. To support it, analysts utilize a large set of specialized tools, however they are usually designed to solve a particular problem are often incompatible with other existing tools and systems. Therefore, to fully leverage the existing supporting tools, their technological integration is required. In this paper we present original approach for integrating systems based on the component-driven paradigm. Firstly, a problem of supporting criminal analysis is described with a strong emphasis on the heterogeneity issues. Secondly, some theoretical information about integration is depicted followed by the details of the proposed architecture. Finally, the technological assumptions are discussed and prototype integration based on proposed concept is overviewed. om the experiments are discussed in the final part of the paper. Keywords—criminal analysis, component-based systems, soft-