POLIS: Pattern of Life Integrated System

This proposal describes a technology system called POLIS (Pattern of Life Integrated System), which combines research in logic-based, semantic and statistical graph techniques to provide intelligence analysts superior capabilities for performing activity-based intelligencespecifically pattern of life (POL) calculation in near-real time. Combining semantic logic-based and math-based techniques provides an advanced technology platform that intelligence analysts can use for manipulation of large-scale graphs, both in terms of their categorical metadata as well as statistical characteristics surrounding weighted relationships, trust, and provenance/pedigree. Pattern of life analysis is broadly categorized as entity-centric, micro-POL and the broader regional, country-wide or topic-specific analysis of macro-POL. The computational outputs of these POL analyses are driven to a user-friendly semantic wiki, where humans can easily interact with the data and effectively represent and track POL activities of various types. The intuitive wiki platform allows users to deal with basic entity types (persons, organizations, times, locations, etc.) and meta-POL areas of interest (regions, countries or topics) thereby shielding them from the complex graph heuristics being performed under the hood. POLIS is built within a scalable component-based platform enabling operations with multiple users and applications running at cloud-scale.