Terrorism Prevention System?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/133038 

Researchers at the University of Maryland’s 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 ...

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