VIM: A Platform for Violent Intent Modeling

Conference · Tue Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2009

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0056-2_24· OSTI ID:978537

Sanfilippo, Antonio P; Schryver, Jack C; Whitney, Paul D; Augustenborg, Elsa C; Danielson, Gary R; Thompson, Sandra E

Radical and contentious political/religious activism may or may not evolve into violent behavior depending on contextual factors related to social, political, cultural and infrastructural conditions. Significant theoretical advances have been made in understanding these contextual factors and the import of their interrelations. However, there has been relative little progress in the development of processes and capabilities which leverage such theoretical advances to automate the anticipatory analysis of violent intent. In this paper, we describe a framework which implements such processes and capabilities, and discuss the implications of using the resulting system to assess the emergence of radicalization leading to violence.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 978537
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-63357; 400904120; TRN: US201010%%12
• Resource Relation: Conference: Social Computing and Behavioral Modeling, 190-201
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
V CODES
FORECASTING
BEHAVIOR
SOCIOLOGY
POLITICAL ASPECTS
HISTORICAL ASPECTS
CRIMINOLOGY
violent intent
modeling
information extraction
content analysis
bayesian nets
probabilistic reasoning