This paper provides a summary of the findings of a short investigation conducted by Dstl horizon scanning science and technology specialists on new technologies with the potential to impact safety in Defence -weapons technology excluded. The investigation was carried out to inform MOD regulators and safety specialists on areas that may require new thinking, and perhaps regulation, in terms of safety and risk. The perspective of the analysis is military and not civil but in most cases the discussion also applies to the civil safety domain.
This report summarizes the findings of an exploratory team of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Information Systems Technology panel into ContentBased Analytics (CBA). The team carried out a technical review into the current status of theoretical and practical developments of methods, tools and techniques supporting joint exploitation of multimedia data sources. In particular, content-based information retrieval and analytics was considered as a means to allow military experts to exploit multiple data sources in a rapid fashion for sensemaking and knowledge generation. Elements included contextual understanding of complex events through computational/human processing techniques, event prediction through the automated extraction of network features, temporal trends, hidden clusters and resource flows, and the use of machine processing for automated translation, parsing, information extraction, and summarization of unstructured and semistructured data. The main conclusions of the study are that important research gaps exist in all the technical areas covered in this report. Though the research areas and developments are being advanced in the military sector and the civil sector, in particular, they remain at low levels of technical maturity for defense and security system applications. It is recommended that NATO collaborative research effort be expanded to advance those approaches that are most pertinent to our overall aim of enhancing the contextual understanding of complex events through CBA of heterogeneous multimedia streams.In today's coalition military environment, decisions are needed quickly within a contextual environment that is increasingly uncertain and complex. Current military information systems do not collect sufficient data on local attitudes, culture, and human issues, all of which frame the military decision parameters. Analysis of information tends to be centralized in operational or strategic levels of command, leaving tactical commanders without the ability to maintain awareness of information that is localized and dynamic.
Content-based information retrieval and analytics is a means
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