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Terrorism Prevention System?
From: "Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:07:08 -0800
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/133038 Researchers at the University of Marylands Institute for Advanced Computer Studies created the Stochastic Opponent Modeling Agents (SOMA) Terror Organization Portal, allowing analysts to query automatically learned rules on terrorist organization behavior, and forecast potential behavior based on those rules. The scientists said SOMA is a formal, logical-statistical reasoning framework that uses data about past behavior of terror groups to generate rules about the likely behavior of each of about 30 groups. Love the acronym: it's such a sleepy little anti-terrorism system. And, let's face it, we've done so very well with IPS using the same technologies ... ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) rslade () vcn bc ca slade () victoria tc ca rslade () computercrime org It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. - Albert Einstein http://victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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