TIDES PROJECT main results Prof. Giovanni Guida Università degli Studi di Brescia Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 1
Main issues of TIDES a model for threat identification and management identifying early warnings from natural language text (TIS) decision support in threat management (DES) ON THE BASIS OF TWO CASE STUDIES Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 2
The case studies The case studies produced the following main results an overview of the target application domains a preliminary analysis of the organizational context the identification of the problems to overcome for an in-depth acquisition and modeling of domain knowledge. a minimal basis for TIS and DES specification and design Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 3
Task analysis and modeling information sources TIS threat DES threats threat managers decision support Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 4
Task analysis and modeling information sources TIS threat DES threats threat managers decision support Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 5
Task analysis and modeling information sources TIS threat DES early warnings early warning analysts threat managers decision support secutity protection unit early warnings / information other information sources Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 6
Task analysis and modeling it has been discovered that between TIS and DES there is an important step to be covered by a specific profssional role: the early warning analysts! a global workflow of the whole threat identification and management process has been defined Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 7
TIS a research-oriented experimental approch attention has been focused on the analysis of NL web sources in order to identify possible early warnings on the basis of a detailed design document (usecases), an operational prototype has been devolopped, dealing with a concrete case concerning possible damages to railway infrastructures in Val di Susa by NO-TAV organizations Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 8
TIS the prototype is supposed to provide a navigation platform to suport an early warning analyst in discovering future risks through the analysis of past events given the difficulty of the NLP task, the prototype incorporates the most recent advances in semantic processing (concept extraction, dependency parsing, graph transformation) three factors play a crucial role in early warning identification, namely: time, space, and aggressive emotions Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 9
TIS the prototype is available in English, French and Italian user-interface and usability-related features still need to be assessed and improved Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 10
DES an engineering approach a detailed functional and user-interface requirement specification has been developed all main entities involved in DES operation have modeled the global operation of the system has been sketched and exemplified by means of a set of mock-up s Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 11
DES a sound conceptual design, based on established yet advanced knowledge processing technologies has been developed ready for implementation in a full prototype an in-depth feasibility study for the costruction of a full prototype has been realized Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 12
Summing up an initial view on potential application domains, on their main features and criticalities a running demostrator of TIS a detailed design of DES Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 13
Smming up an important legacy a strong background for a larger project Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 14
Next steps the fundamental conditions for a new initiative: two target companies, with concrete application cases, committed to devote all necessary effort to the project a strong kowledge-engineering team... and a lot of money Copyright 2014 G. Guida, Brescia - 15