Supporting insight-based information exploration in intelligence analysis

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 63-68

  Gersh, John ^a   Lewis, Bessie ^a   Montemayor, Jaime ^a   Piatko, Christine ^a   Turner, Russell ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; GRAPH THEORY; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; SEARCH ENGINES; SPECIFICATIONS;

COMPLEX GRAPHS; EXPLORATORY SEARCH PROCESSES; INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS;

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33745189772     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 00010782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1121949.1121984     Document Type: Review

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