Computational intelligence solutions for homeland security

Abstract

On the basis of consolidated requirements from international Polices, Elsag Datamat has developed an integrated tool suite, supporting all the main Homeland Security activities like operations, emergency response, investigation and intelligence analysis. The last support covers the whole "Intelligence Cycle" along its main phases and integrates a wide variety of automatic and semi-automatic tools, coming from both original company developments and from the market (COTS), in a homogeneous framework. Support to Analysis phase, most challenging and computing-intensive, makes use of Classification techniques, Clustering techniques, Novelty Detection and other sophisticated algorithms. An innovative and promising use of Clustering and Novelty Detection, supporting the analysis of "information behavior", can be very useful to the analysts in identifying relevant subjects, monitoring their evolution and detecting new information events who may deserve attention in the monitored scenario. © 2009 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.