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Detecting Communities and Attributing Purpose to Human Mobility Data

Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference

John, Esther W.; Cauthen, Katherine R.; Brown, Nathanael J.; Nozick, Linda K.

Many individuals' mobility can be characterized by strong patterns of regular movements and is influenced by social relationships. Social networks are also often organized into overlapping communities which are associated in time or space. We develop a model that can generate the structure of a social network and attribute purpose to individuals' movements, based solely on records of individuals' locations over time. This model distinguishes the attributed purpose of check-ins based on temporal and spatial patterns in check-in data. Because a location-based social network dataset with authoritative ground-truth to test our entire model does not exist, we generate large scale datasets containing social networks and individual check-in data to test our model. We find that our model reliably assigns community purpose to social check-in data, and is robust over a variety of different situations.

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TYPE Conference Paper YEAR 2021
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A Minimally Supervised Event Detection Method

Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems

Hoffman, Matthew J.; Bussell, Sam; Brown, Nathanael J.

Solving classification problems with machine learning often entails laborious manual labeling of test data, requiring valuable time from a subject matter expert (SME). This process can be even more challenging when each sample is multidimensional. In the case of an anomaly detection system, a standard two-class problem, the dataset is likely imbalanced with few anomalous observations and many “normal” observations (e.g., credit card fraud detection). We propose a unique methodology that quickly identifies individual samples for SME tagging while automatically classifying commonly occurring samples as normal. In order to facilitate such a process, the relationships among the dimensions (or features) must be easily understood by both the SME and system architects such that tuning of the system can be readily achieved. The resulting system demonstrates how combining human knowledge with machine learning can create an interpretable classification system with robust performance.

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TYPE Conference Poster YEAR 2021
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A Complex Systems Approach to More Resilient Multi-Layered Security Systems

Jones, Katherine A.; Bandlow, Alisa B.; Waddell, Lucas W.; Nozick, Linda K.; Levin, Drew L.; Brown, Nathanael J.

In July 2012, protestors cut through security fences and gained access to the Y-12 National Security Complex. This was believed to be a highly reliable, multi-layered security system. This report documents the results of a Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project that created a consistent, robust mathematical framework using complex systems analysis algorithms and techniques to better understand the emergent behavior, vulnerabilities and resiliency of multi-layered security systems subject to budget constraints and competing security priorities. Because there are several dimensions to security system performance and a range of attacks that might occur, the framework is multi-objective for a performance frontier to be estimated. This research explicitly uses probability of intruder interruption given detection (PI) as the primary resilience metric. We demonstrate the utility of this framework with both notional as well as real-world examples of Physical Protection Systems (PPSs) and validate using a well-established force-on-force simulation tool, Umbra.

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TYPE SAND Report YEAR 2016
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