Information integration for counter terrorism activities: requirements for context mediation

Author

Choucri, Nazli ; Madnick, Stuart E. ; Moulton, Allen ; Siegel, Michael D. ; Zhu, Hongwei

Author_Institution

MIT Sloan Sch. of Manage., Cambridge, MA, USA

Volume

5

fYear

2004

fDate

6-13 March 2004

Firstpage

3151

Abstract

The National Research Council has noted that "[A]lthough there are many private and public databases that contain information potentially relevant to counterterrorism programs, they lack the necessary context definitions (i.e., metadata) and access tools to enable interoperation with other databases and the extraction of meaningful and timely information." In this paper we present examples of these problems and a technology developed at MIT, called context mediation, which provides an approach for addressing these problems.

Keywords

database management systems; military computing; terrorism; National Research Council; access tools; context definitions; context mediation; counter terrorism; database interoperation; information integration; meaningful information; metadata; private databases; public databases; timely information; Councils; Counting circuits; Data mining; Data warehouses; Distributed databases; Globalization; Information analysis; Mediation; Terrorism; Uncertainty;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Aerospace Conference, 2004. Proceedings. 2004 IEEE

ISSN

1095-323X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8155-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/AERO.2004.1368120

Filename

1368120