Detecting Terrorist Activities – “Making Sense”  EPSRC Sandpit on Detecting Terrorist Activities, May  Analysis and Visualisation of multi-modal data which is:  Partial  Unreliable  Contradictory  Interactive, visualisation-based “Decision Support Assistant”.  Imperial led, 10 partners, started February 2010.

“Making Sense” : Challenges  Collection  New developments in computer forensics, automatic gisting, data management and resource allocation.  Fusion and inference  Integration of data of variable sources, locating missing data, resolution of contradictions.  Analysis  Summarizing fused data, machine learning to identify relevant connections in the data.  Visualisation  From multiple perspectives both shared and operational;  Informed by the operational model(s) of data analysis, risk assessment and legal considerations.

“Making Sense” : The Team  Multi-disciplinary:  Psychology  Law  Operations research  Computational linguistics  Visual analytics  Machine learning and artificial intelligence  Human computer interaction  Computer science  Approximately 300 person months over 36 months (full economic cost: £2.6m).  Links with UK-RVAC activity.