From Data to Knowledge – Promising Analytical Tools and Techniques for Capture and Reuse of Corporate Knowledge and to Aid in the State Evaluation Process

Conference · Fri Oct 29 00:00:00 EDT 2010

OSTI ID:1148651

Danielson, Gary R.; Augustenborg, Elsa C.; Beck, Andrew E.

The IAEA is challenged with limited availability of human resources for inspection and data analysis while proliferation threats increase. PNNL has a variety of IT solutions and techniques (at varying levels of maturity and development) that take raw data closer to useful knowledge, thereby assisting with and standardizing the analytical processes. This paper highlights some PNNL tools and techniques which are applicable to the international safeguards community, including: • Intelligent in-situ triage of data prior to reliable transmission to an analysis center resulting in the transmission of smaller and more relevant data sets • Capture of expert knowledge in re-usable search strings tailored to specific mission outcomes • Image based searching fused with text based searching • Use of gaming to discover unexpected proliferation scenarios • Process modeling (e.g. Physical Model) as the basis for an information integration portal, which links to data storage locations along with analyst annotations, categorizations, geographic data, search strings and visualization outputs.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (US)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 1148651
• Report Number(s): PNNL-SA-75322
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English