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VITA for links and nodes analysis network analysis for counterror & intelligence Zachary Jacobson, Health Canada with Ben Houston and Olivier Dagenais, Carleton University. March 2003. VITA - a visual front end for document search systems. to discover relationships among elements
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VITA for links and nodes analysisnetwork analysis for counterror & intelligenceZachary Jacobson, Health CanadawithBen Houston and Olivier Dagenais, Carleton University March 2003
VITA - a visual front end for document search systems • to discover relationships among elements • and reducing search complexity • control by the user • results presentation under user control • Intended to be engine independent • Various prototypes
VITA-g(AutoViz) Example Gravity
VITA-g(AutoViz) Example Filtering
Originally [web] search and KM • But the gravity can cluster and group other items. • N.B. the quantized use of the 3rd dimension [height above the floor]
Concepts 3 fixed planes Extracts web pages VITA General Layout Mechanism
Quantized 3rd dimension—say— For a collection of suspect emails about something perhaps quite innocuous. • “To” level • “From” level • Body level Traffic analysis should ID cells of activity Perhaps identify a single text thread
Other possible floorings • Time [datestamp] level • To-from level • Keyword level
Or, network protection • From • To • Sites
Common Fate • Who’s attached most strongly to whom? • Who’s pinging whom? • Who’s pinging many? • Or, who’s being pinged by many?