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Argument schemes and provenance to support collaborative intelligence analysis

Authors:
Alice Toniolo
Federico Cerutti
Nir Oren
Timothy J. Norman

Keywords: intelligence analysis; argument schemes; provenance; collaborative applications.

Abstract:
Intelligence analysis is the process of interpreting scattered information to form hypotheses and testing those against evidence. Collaboration enhances this process reducing effort and bias of an individual, while permitting more criticism and different perspectives to be considered. Existing analytical tools support an analyst in collecting information and evaluating hypotheses. However, for effective collaboration, analysts must work together in forming hypotheses from information. We propose an evidential reasoning service that aims at improving collaborative sense-making. It exploits argumentation schemes for structuring annotation and analysis of information, and records provenance to track data and reviews. This service aims to support the analysis by introducing automated reasoning about competing evidence for identifying plausible hypotheses. It provides a uniform reasoning structure that permits integration and facilitates sharing of analyses from different contributors

Pages: 51 to 54

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: July 21, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4227

ISBN: 978-1-61208-287-5

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from July 21, 2013 to July 21, 2013