1.  High Performance Agent-Based Topic Monitoring (Jim Treadwell, Oak Ridge National Laboratory) -in progress

The ability of policy makers to make effective decisions and take action in near real-time during a rapidly evolving disaster would be significantly enhanced if they could effectively monitor and correlate patterns and trends in communications across many media types and sources (TV, Internet News, Web logs, Messages, Call Center activity etc.). This remains a challenging problem because of the integration and processing requirements. ORNL, supported under contract by Psydex Incorporated, will develop and deploy a prototype system that demonstrates how multiple news data sources can be monitored, fused, correlated and analyzed in near real time for known and emerging threats to national security. Decision makers will be able to visualize threats with charts and geospatial views to identify patterns and trends in the subject matter contained in various unstructured information sources. The system will be developed and deployed to a High Performance Agent Based cluster at ORNL.