Socio-Culturally Oriented Plan Discovery Environment (SCOPE)

摘要

Socio-Culturally Oriented Plan Discovery Environment (SCOPE) is a link discovery project in the Evidence Assessment, Grouping, Linking, and Evaluation (EAGLE) program. The primary objective was to model terrorist organization (TO) mission plans from a counter/anti-terrorist (C/AT) point of view by finding links between evidence from disparate sources that currently might be missed. The original SCOPE approach called for using the invariant properties of the TO planning process to create global patterns that could be matched against evidence in intelligence reports. The original SCOPE architecture called for a hybrid system that performed link discovery through a synthesis of cognitive modeling and case-based reasoning (CBR) techniques using CHI Systems' iGEN environment for cognitive modeling, and a variant of SHAI's Intelligent Correlation of Evidence (ICE) system for case-based reasoning (CBR). Chi and their subcontractors (SHAI and Sytex) worked on two very distinct sets of tasks. The first set involved working with intelligence analysts (IAs) and real reports in order to determine the internal patterns used by analysts and how they use them. The second set of tasks involved designing and constructing a cognitive model of the analytic process, and applying it to the plan discovery problem.