KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS INC — Department of Defense SBIR Phase I: Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) proposes to develop, build and validate a Multi-Sourc

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Knowledge Based Systems, Inc. (KBSI) proposes to develop, build and validate a Multi-Source Network Pulse Analyzer and Correlator (MiNPAC) that is capable of: (a) sensing emerging themes, trends and patterns of beliefs, sentiments, rhetoric, etc., from multi-source data covering large social networks, and (b) correlating it with structural and behavioral dynamics within the same or related social networks. The key innovations are: (i) knowledge engineering methods to create a state spaced characterization based upon an array of demographic, behavioral, psycho-social and organizational indicators, (ii) research and development of a network pulse monitor that discovers themes and topics, and characterizes the sentiments of the community with relation to the discovered topics & themes, (iii) research and development of a methods to efficient extract social network dynamics, (iv) A formal framework for studying and reasoning with network behavior that is applicable for any social network, and (v) Multi-Source Network Pulse Analyzer and Correlator (MiNPAC) prototype that integrates these approaches, and (vi) Empirical validation of these approaches based upon historical case studies.