This paper presents a multiagent-based model of insect development on a dead body and a three layers Decision Support System architecture able to perform retrodictive (abductive) reasoning from multiagent-based models or more generally, complex systems models. This architecture is used in order to compute post-mortem intervals from entomological data sampled on cadavers. Knowing the exact time ...

This case study demonstrates the importance of the Phorid, Megaselia abdita (Schmitz), as an indicator for post-mortem interval estimation in criminal investigations involving forensic entomology where it is usually the more frequently occurring Calliphorids that are most useful. A case example is discussed where the temperatures were low for the period of time the deceased was missing.

This paper deals with an important issue of forensic entomology: the estimation of the temperature in a ”maggot mass”. An agent-based model of the thermoregulation behaviour of fly (Protophormia terraenovae) larvae is described. Simulation results show that the model reproduces an important observed pattern and thus, might be used in entomological expertises.

A postmortem interval of 19-20 days was estimated for the remains of a female, ca. 48 years of age, recovered from a ditch on the island of Oahu, Hawaiian Islands, based on an analysis of arthropods present on the remains. Exposed remains present a temporary and progressively changing habitab and food source for a wide variety of organisms ranging from bacteria and fungi to vertebrate scavenger...

Forensic entomology is an application of studies related to insects and other arthropods in legal matters. Depth knowledge experience the biodiversity, biology, ecology, behavior forensic found on a human corpse or at crime site, can provide information about time since death, location crime, some cases cause death. Although are used investigation for three four decades, it aroused recently as ...