UDC 343.98
The process of accumulation, processing, search and storage of forensically significant information, combined by common specific characteristics, makes it possible to form information and search systems that contribute to the solution of diagnostic, classification and identification tasks in forensics. The article describes the concept of a new forensic accounting, which can act as a cluster of training data for an information system used to systematize (classify) forensically significant computer information. It is concluded that the basis of the forensic cluster of electronic evidence should be a hybrid model for analyzing heterogeneous data with the integration of digital forensics methods, machine learning and explainable artificial intelligence. This approach will make it possible to form a database for building a fundamentally new intellectual technical and forensic tool. Together with the use of cloud technologies, visualization tools and analysis of big data, the proposed concept can represent a modern tool for countering computer information crimes.
digital evidence, forensic data cluster, forensic accounting system, neural network data cluster, digital forensics, computer forensics, crime investigation, computer crimes, forensic technology tool
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