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Presentation of Information for Link Analysis

by Thomere, J. and Wolverton, M.

in Capturing and Using Patterns for Evidence Detection - Papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium pp. 99-104,

Abstract

SRI’s LAW (Link Analysis Workbench) is a system that helps intelligence analysts detect occurrences of situations of interest by finding pattern instances in vast amounts of data using graph edit distance matching techniques. However to be completely successful it has to convey the results of the such findings to the users in a way that they can quickly grasp, not only to make use of it or to present it, but also to provide the feedback necessary to fine tune the discovery process using LAW. This paper presents what we think is required in order to achieve this goal, the solutions that were designed and implemented in the current LAW architecture and the approach that we envision in the next installments of LAW .

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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.

AIC Personnel

	Name	Title	E-mail
	Thomere, Jerome F	Computer Scientist
	Wolverton, Michael J	Senior Computer Scientist