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Precursor to TWC

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The Topological Weighted Centroid: A New Vision of Geographic Profiling

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A complementary approach to the topological one of TWC is what is called “Geographic Profiling.

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  1. Semeion Centro Ricerche di Scienze della Comunicazione, Rome, Italy

    Massimo Buscema, Giulia Massini, Marco Breda, Riccardo Petritoli & Francesca Della Torre

  2. Department of Physics, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA

    Masoud Asadi-Zeydabadi

  3. Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA

    Weldon A. Lodwick

  4. Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, USA

    Francis Newman

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Buscema, M. et al. (2023). Precursor to TWC. In: The Topological Weighted Centroid: A New Vision of Geographic Profiling. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1095. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28901-9_2

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