Controlled experimentation of digital forensics towards formalization for strengthening evidence reproducibility, reliability, and transparency Edson OliveiraJr, Thiago J. Silva, Charles V. Neu, Avelino F. Zorzo, Ana H. Mazur

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

OliveiraJr, Edson, author.

Silva, Thiago J., author.

Neu, Charles V., author.

Zorzo, A. (Avelino), author.

Mazur, Ana H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer crimes--Investigation.

Computer crimes.

Electronic evidence.

Digital forensic science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland Springer [2026]

Summary:

"The digital forensics research community develops new solutions daily to advance its subfields, including cloud and network forensics and security. However, a substantial amount of such research requires greater experimental rigor. A few works have discussed how to improve such rigor. One of the most essential ways to address it is to promote the reproducibility of digital forensics controlled experiments. Research has demonstrated that specific techniques, such as conceptual modeling and ontology, have been successfully applied. This book presents techniques for planning, modeling, conducting, and disseminating controlled experiments and quasi-experiments in digital forensics. By properly documenting and disseminating experiments, researchers are preparing their experimental artifacts to ensure reproducibility, thereby enabling the appropriate evolution of a given research topic. The target audience comprises researchers in digital forensics, undergraduate and graduate students, law enforcement personnel, police, experts, and other related communities interested in improving their experiments to make them more reproducible. All of these groups might benefit from this book by deepening their understanding of the essential concepts of digital forensics experiments, how to plan, conduct, and disseminate experimental findings, and how to organize experimental artifacts for reproducibility"-- Springer Nature Lnik

Contents:

Digital forensics in a nutshell

Principles of controlled experimentation

The role of reproducibility in science and digital forensics

Basics of conceptual modeling

ExperDF-CM : a digital forensics controlled experiments conceptual model

Basics of ontology and SPARQL queries

The ExperDF-Onto ontology

Example 1 : the memory that would not lie

Example 2 : unlocking the locked : smartphone bypass experiments

Example 3 : the case of the altered cloud logs

Example 4 : echoes in the IoT lab

Example 5 : the invisible signature : blockchain provenance

Concluding remarks : toward a scientifically grounded and open digital forensics

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Springer Nature Link, viewed August 5, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: OliveiraJr, Edson Controlled experimentation of digital forensics

ISBN:

9783032199515

3032199514

OCLC:

1605497319

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license