Stop Terrorism Software

Stop Terrorism Software

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UM scientists create technology for analysis and forecasting of terrorism

COLLEGE PARK, Md. -- Researchers at the University of Maryland’s Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS) have developed the SOMA Terror Organization Portal (STOP) allowing analysts to query automatically learned rules on terrorist organization behavior, forecast potential behavior based on these rules, and, most importantly, to network with other analysts examining the same subjects.

SOMA (Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents) is a formal, logical-statistical reasoning framework that uses data about past behavior of terror groups in order to learn rules about the probability of an organization, community, or person taking certain actions in different situations. In a unique collaboration between computer scientists and political scientists, SOMA has generated tens of thousands of rules about the likely behavior of each of about 30 groups (including major terrorist organizations such as Hezbollah, Hamas, and Hezb-I-Islami).

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Notice: all communications are being analyzed. Comforting thought. Just in case you thought Big Brother wasn't watching....they are...and using advanced algorithms to do so. Nice to know we can all sleep safer.

Peace.

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