HARP: Human Augmented Reasoning through Patterning

Principal Investigator:  John D Lowrance Mailing address: AI Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493 AIC Program:  Representation and Reasoning

Our goal is to transform intelligence/policy analysis and decision making by a unique revolutionary concept that incorporates multiple perspectives with shared awareness and recognition of simple, complicated, complex and chaotic situations. We will develop a dynamically adaptable, productive environment for human and software agent collaboration with an open sustainable architecture that incorporates: 1) faster, smarter, and more integrated structured argumentation tools that will provide analysts more time for analysis, while improving rigor and introspective thinking about the analytic process, and 2) tools for structured policy development that do for the policy analyst what structured argumentation tools have done for the intelligence analyst.

	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).
	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.

• Murray, K. and Lowrance, J. and Appelt, D. and Rodriguez, A. Estimating Similarity among Collaboration Contributions, in Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture, 2005.  [PDF, Details]

• Murray, K. and Lowrance, J. and Appelt, D., and Rodriguez, A. Fostering Collaboration with a Semantic Index over Textual Contributions, in AI Technologies for Homeland Security, Papers from the 2005 AAAI Spring Symposium, AAAI Press, no. SS-05-01, pp. 99-106, March 2005.  [PDF, Details]

• Andres Rodriguez, Thomas Boyce, John Lowrance, Eric Yeh. Angler: Collaboratively Expanding your Cognitive Horizon, in International Conference on Intelligence Analysis, 2005.  [PDF, Details]