VITA for links and nodes analysisnetwork analysis for counterror & intelligence

Zachary Jacobson, Health CanadawithBen Houston and Olivier Dagenais, Carleton University

March 2003

VITA - a visual front end for document search systems

to discover relationships among elements and reducing search complexity

control by the userresults presentation under user controlIntended to be engine independentVarious prototypes

VITA- Concept

VITA- (NetViz) Example

VITA-(AutoViz) Example

VITA-(AutoViz) Example

Gravity

Filtering

VITA-(AutoViz) Example

VITA- Example

VITA- Example

VITA-Example

Originally [web] search and KM

But the gravity can cluster and group other items.N.B. the quantized use of the 3rd dimension [height above the floor]

3 fixedplanes3 fixedplanes

ConceptsConcepts

web pagesweb pages

ExtractsExtracts

VITA General Layout Mechanism

Quantized 3rd dimension—say—

For a collection of suspect emailsabout something perhaps quite innocuous.“To” level“From” levelBody level

Traffic analysis should ID cells of activityPerhaps identify a single text thread

Other possible floorings

Time [datestamp] levelTo-from levelKeyword level

Or, network protection

FromToSites

Common Fate

Who’s attached most strongly to whom?Who’s pinging whom?Who’s pinging many? Or, who’s being pinged by many?