Past Projects

	Genoa: The Structured Evidential Argumentation System Under this effort, we developed the concept of structured argumentation applied to intelligence analysis, a corporate memory of structured arguments that accumulates over time constituting an historic record of anlytic thinking, and an asynchronous collaborative environemnt for collective reasoning.
	HARP: Human Augmented Reasoning through Patterning This project will develop and deploy: 1) cognitive aids that allow humans and machines to "think together" in real-time about complicated problems; 2) techniques to overcome the biases and limitations of the human cognitive system; 3) "cognitive amplifiers" that help teams of people rapidly and fully comprehend complicated and uncertain situations; and, 4) the means to rapidly and seamlessly cut across and complement existing hierarchical organizational structures.
	PRIME: A Predictive Model Development Environment The goal was to develop PRIME, an effects-based modelling tool, as a web application. PRIME supports rapid, collaborative development of forecasts of the effects of a planned set of DIME (diplomatic, informational, military, or economic) actions.
	The Link Analysis Workbench The goal of this project is to develop the Link Analysis Workbench (LAW), a Web-accessible tool where analysts and machines collaboratively perform link analysis by defining hierarchical and temporal patterns, that include uncertain and qualitative elements, and by defining search strategies for pattern application, through a graphical user interface that supports direct graphical browsing and editing of patterns, search strategies, and summaries and details of resulting matches.

Software

	Angler Angler is a tool that helps intelligence/policy professionals explore, understand, and overcome cognitive biases, and collaboratively expand their joint cognitive vision through use of divergent & convergent thinking techniques (such as brainstorming and clustering).
	LAW: Link Analysis Workbench LAW is a system that helps intelligence professionals define and match patterns within large, incomplete, and noisy sets of relational data.
	SEAS: Structured Evidential Argumentation System SEAS is a tool to aid analysts in reasoning about potential opportunities/crises. It records analytic thinking in structured arguments, provides a collaborative environment in which multiple analysts can simultaneously contribute to arguments, and retains a coproate memory of the evolution of analytic thinking over time.

Publications

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• Lowrance, J., Harrison, I., Rodriguez, A., Yeh, E., Boyce, T., Murdock, J., Thomere, J., and Murray, K. Template-Based Structured Argumentationin Knowledge Cartography: Software Tools and Mapping Techniques, Springer, October 2008.  [Details]

• Wolverton, M. and Martin, D. and Harrison, I. and Thomere, J. A Process Catalog for Workflow Generation, in The Semantic Web - 7th International Semantic Web Conference, Springer, vol. 5318/2008, pp. 833-846, 2008.  [Details]

• Wolverton, M. and Harrison, I. and Martin, D. Issues in Algorithm Characterization for Link Analysis, in Capturing and Using Patterns for Evidence Detection - Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium, 2006.  [PDF, Details]

• Wolverton, M. and Harrison, I. and Lowrance, J. and Rodriguez, A. and Thomere, J. Software Supported Pattern Development in Intelligence Analysis, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety (CIHSPS ’06), 2006.  [PDF, Details]

• Wolverton, M. and Harrison, I. and Lowrance, J. and Rodriguez, A. and Thomere, J. Advanced Patterns and Matches in Link Analysis, in Intelligence and Security Informatics, Proceedings of ISI-2006, Springer-Verlag, 2006.  [Details]