Storytelling in entity networks to support intelligence analysts

Proceedings of the ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1375-1383

  Hossain, M Shahriar ^a   Butler, Patrick ^a   Boedihardjo, Arnold P ^b   Ramakrishnan, Naren ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b US Army Corps of Engineers   (United States)

Author keywords

connecting the dots; intelligence analysis; redescriptions; storytelling

Indexed keywords

CONCEPT LATTICES; CONNECTING THE DOTS; DATA SETS; GENERATION PROCESS; INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS; INTELLIGENCE ANALYSTS; MASSIVE DATA SETS; OPTIMIZATION TECHNIQUES; PUBLIC DOMAINS; REDESCRIPTIONS; SOFTWARE SUPPORT; STORYTELLING;

DATA MINING;

EID: 84866011184     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2339530.2339742     Document Type: Conference Paper

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