Situation Tracking in Large Data Streams

Abstract

Work on this project resulted in a system which: (a) identifies in real-time a schema definition of a scenario from an incomplete sample of a situation(the cue) plus a corpus of real-time unstructured and sparse time series data (such as social media or log records); (b) uses this schema to identify additional implicitly relevant data records to provide much greater recall of the scenario data, and quantifies the presence of schema elements in each data record; (c) identifies multiple different scenarios emerging from the data in response to a query; (d) quantifies the strength and stability of the time series of data records which contribute to each unfolding scenario; (e) generates a user interface which enhances situation awareness and minimizes the user' need for accurate prior knowledge, by enhancing the user's search terms and collating results; and (f)employs sound data science to construct data stories from statistically valid information, so non-analysts can make good decisions.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 2015
Accession Number
ADA620924

Entities

People

  • Andrew N. Smith
  • Janet Wiles

Organizations

  • University of Queensland

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Computer Science
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Data Science
  • Electronic Mail
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Media
  • Network Science
  • Online Communications
  • Psychological Phenomena And Processes
  • Psychology
  • Situational Awareness
  • Social Media
  • Social Psychology
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - Bayesian Inference
  • AI & ML - Information Retrieval