LCCD projects

  

OASYS: Opinion Analysis System

  

STORY

  

SOMA: Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents

  

CAGE: Cultural Adversarial Game Engine

  

T-REX

LCCD Applications

  

Tribes in the Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Region

  

Drug Trade in Afghanistan

  

Minorities at Risk

  

Terrorism in Peru

  

Conflict in Guatemala

In the 1980s and 1990s, Peru was the site of many violent terrorist actions by a leftist group known as Sendero Luminoso, or the Shining Path. General Felipe Gutierrez, the military attache from Peru, played a key role in anti-terrorist actions that eventually succeeded in defeating the Shining Path movement. General Gutierrez has been working in conjunction with the LCCD to model the conditions that cause activist groups to escalate to the use of terrorism. With the expertise of General Gutierrez, the LCCD has created a preliminary "Country Ontology Portal," in which we are using the Shining Path as an initial guide towards what a general terrorism ontology should contain. The "Country Ontology Portal" will eventually be available online such that users, i.e. anti-terrorism personnel or political scientists, will be able to interactively modify the ontology, as well as add their own instances of a terrorist group model to the database.

By associating probabilty ranges with each level in the ontology, we will be able to construct SOMA rules from the instances in the datbase. Using the SOMA system, we will then be able to build opponent models for terrorist agents. These models can be used as the foundation of a terrorism early warning system, helping experts predict and react to groups that might soon begin using terrorism as a political tool.

Last updated: February 15, 2008
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