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Detecting Terrorist Activities – “Making Sense”. EPSRC Sandpit on Detecting Terrorist Activities, May 2009. Analysis and Visualisation of multi-modal data which is: Partial Unreliable Contradictory Interactive, visualisation-based “Decision Support Assistant”.
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Detecting Terrorist Activities – “Making Sense” • EPSRC Sandpit on Detecting Terrorist Activities, May 2009. • Analysis and Visualisation of multi-modal data which is: • Partial • Unreliable • Contradictory • Interactive, visualisation-based “Decision Support Assistant”. • Imperial led, 10 partners, started February 2010.
“Making Sense” : Challenges • Collection • New developments in computer forensics, automatic gisting, data management and resource allocation. • Fusion and inference • Integration of data of variable sources, locating missing data, resolution of contradictions. • Analysis • Summarizing fused data, machine learning to identify relevant connections in the data. • Visualisation • From multiple perspectives both shared and operational; • Informed by the operational model(s) of data analysis, risk assessment and legal considerations.
“Making Sense” : The Team • Multi-disciplinary: • Psychology • Law • Operations research • Computational linguistics • Visual analytics • Machine learning and artificial intelligence • Human computer interaction • Computer science • Approximately 300 person months over 36 months(full economic cost: £2.6m). • Links with UK-RVAC activity.