Ontology building for cognitive bias assessment in intelligence

It is usually considered that mankind creates mental shortcuts, called heuristics, in order to rapidly process information. Since they are bound to human cognition, these cognitive biases are involved in any human mental activity including the intelligence field. Intelligence aims to search for, interpret, select and display information. The RECOBIA project aims to Reduce Cognitive Biases in Intelligence Activity. In this paper, we first present the definition of cognitive biases with respect to intelligence work. Then we present an ontology that models the defined cognitive biases in intelligence. The ontology is used to support cognitive bias assessment to help reduce them in the intelligence domain.