Networks and Terrorism CASOS Projects
BioWar
A project to develop a a cityscale multi-agent network model
of weaponized chemical and biological attacks at the city level.
Current system
enables evaluation of syndromic surveillance approaches for early detection
and estimation of change in death rate for difverse types of attacks
on 5 major US cities. In BioWar, 62 diseases, including multiple
weaponized
diseases such as Anthrax and Smallpox have been modeled. (Kathleen
M. Carley, PI). This work supports a Ph.D. project on large scale simulation
and automated
validation - Alex Yahja (chair Kathleen
Carley).
CORES
Complex Organizational Reasoning System. This project supports the Ph.D. work of Robert Behrman
(Kathleen M. Carley, PI)
Dynamic Network Analysis
Estimating the information content and robustness
of statistical measures of network properties under varying levels of
information assurance for static and dynamic networks. Both missing and
fabricated information about personnel and the links among them are being
examined (Kathleen M. Carley, PI).
DyNet
A computational tool for estimating the impact of various destabilization
strategies (including both informaiton warfare and individual isolation)
on dynamic evolving covert networks under varying levels of information
assurance (Kathleen M. Carley, PI).
NetEst
A desktop computer investigative tool that estimates the size
and structure of networked and cellular organizations from disparate
data sources. (Kathleen M. Carley, PI).
NetWatch
A multi-agent network tool for dynamic wargaming of both
the red and blue team in which teams are formed of one or more agencies
of agents with varying information gathering and processing capabilities.(Kathleen M. Carley, PI).
ORA
ORA is a risk assessment tool for locating individuals
or groups that are potential risks given social, knowledge and task network
information.
Essentially, first you use information about people to "connect
the dots." Then, ORA examines this network and finds those dots,
those people, who represent a risk to the overall system. (Kathleen M. Carley, PI).
VISTA
A
multi-agent tool that intelligence analysts can
use to visualize the sudden, non-linear, emergent events, including attacks
on the critical
infrastructure, that can characterize asymetric threat operations in
urban settings. This project supports the Ph.D. work of Marcus Louie (Kathleen M. Carley, PI).
AutoMap
AutoMap is a software for computer-assisted Network Text Analysis (NTA). NTA encodes the links among words
in a text and constructs a network of the linked words. AutoMap subsumes classical Content Analysis by
analyzing the existence, frequencies, and covariance of terms and themes. AutoMap has been implemented
in Java 1.5.0_07 (Kathleen M. Carley, PI).