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Title: Identifying datasets for global wildlife trafficking
We describe a novel database on wildlife trafficking that can be used for exploring supply chain coordination via game-theoretic collaboration models, geographic spread of wildlife products trafficked via multi-item knapsack problems, or illicit network interdiction via multi-armed bandit problems.</p> A publicly available visualization of this dataset is available at: https://public.tableau.com/views/IWTDataDirectory-Gore/Sheet2?:language=en-US&:display_count=n&:origin=viz_share_link  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2120065 1935451
PAR ID:
10403308
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Zenodo
Date Published:
Edition / Version:
1.0
Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
wildlife trafficking wildlife crime illicit supply networks
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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