Publication Type

Conference Proceeding Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

10-2015

Abstract

The US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) have established a collaborative research enterprise referred to as the Situational Understanding Research Institute (SURI). The goal is to develop an information processing framework to help the military obtain real-time situational awareness of physical events by harnessing the combined power of multiple sensing sources to obtain insights about events and their evolution. It is envisioned that one could use such information to predict behaviors of groups, be they local transient groups (e.g., protests) or widespread, networked groups, and thus enable proactive prevention of nefarious activities. This paper presents a vision of how social media sources can be exploited in the above context to obtain insights about events, groups, and their evolution.

Keywords

Situation Understanding, Social Sensing

Discipline

Digital Communications and Networking | Social Media | Software Engineering

Research Areas

Software and Cyber-Physical Systems

Publication

2015 IEEE 12th International Conference on Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems MASS: Dallas, TX, October 19-22

First Page

627

Last Page

632

ISBN

9781467391009

Identifier

10.1109/MASS.2015.89

Publisher

IEEE

City or Country

Piscataway, NJ

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1109/MASS.2015.89

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