1998 AAAI Fall Symposium on
Artificial Intelligence and Link Analysis
Orlando, Florida • October 23-25, 1998
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Computer-based link analysis is increasingly used in law enforcement investigations, insurance fraud detection, telecommunications network analysis, pharmaceuticals research, epidemiology, and a host of other specialized applications. Link analysis explores associations among large numbers of objects of different types. For example, a law enforcement application might examine familial relationships among suspects and victims, the addresses at which those persons reside, and the telephone numbers that they called during a specified period. The ability of link analysis to represent relationships and associations among objects of different types has proven crucial in assisting human investigators to comprehend complex webs of evidence and draw conclusions that are not apparent from any single piece of information.
However, there is both a need and opportunity to apply new technologies. Much of the current software for link analysis is little more than a graphical display tool. While visualizing networks has proven useful, many advanced applications of link analysis involve thousands of objects and links as well as a rich array of possible data models. Manual construction and analysis of such networks has proven difficult. In addition, a large number of related techniques in artificial intelligence and several other fields have the potential to assist human reasoning about complex networks of relationships. These techniques draw on work from search, semantic networks, ontological engineering, autonomous agents, inductive logic programming, graph theory, social network analysis, knowledge discovery in databases, entity-relationship modeling, information extraction, information retrieval, and metaphor.
This two-and-a-half day symposium will bring two communities into contact: 1) Members of the research community who currently have (or could soon develop) useful technology; and 2) Users of link analysis techniques whose needs go beyond the capabilities of current software. Note that the focus of the symposium is new technologies, not capabilities and applications embodied in current software. These products have enabled current applications and may eventually incorporate new technologies. However, the focus of the workshop is on techniques that can be developed and deployed within 3-5 years.
Organizing Committee
David Jensen (co-chair)
Computer Science Department, University of Massachusetts
Henry Goldberg (co-chair)
National Association of Securities Dealers Regulation, Inc.
William Mills
Office of Research and Development, Central Intelligence Agency
Malcolm Sparrow
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Katia Sycara
The Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon
University
Chris Westphal
Visual Analytics, Inc.
Raphael Wong
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S. Treasury