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It is our hypothesis that appropriate use of semantics, and particularly Semantic Web technologies, can have a significant impact on improving the speed of intelligence processing and sharing of intelligence process. For example, analysts within the intelligence community are often tasked as small teams in ad hoc ways to deal with emerging threats (this is sometimes referred to as “surge proces...

Botnets—networks of (typically compromised) machines—are often used for nefarious activities (e.g., spam, click fraud, denial-of-service attacks, etc.). Identifying members of botnets could help stem these attacks, but passively detecting botnet membership (i.e., without disrupting the operation of the botnet) proves to be difficult. This paper studies the effectiveness of monitoring lookups to...

Given modern warfare’s complex and dynamic nature, military deception has become a vital tool in the contemporary operating environment for gaining strategic advantage achieving operational success. For this reason, countering enemy operations an requirement to support mission accomplishment. Furthermore, with increased use of technologies information warfare tactics by adversaries, intelligenc...

This paper discusses different biases which have been identified in Intelligence Analysis and how TIACRITIS, a knowledge-based cognitive assistant for evidence-based hypotheses analysis, can help recognize and partially counter them. After reviewing the architecture of TIACRITIS, the paper shows how it helps recognize and counter many of the analysts’ biases in the evaluation of evidence, in th...