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</script>An enormous volume of security-relevant information is present on the Web, for instance in the content produced each day by millions of bloggers worldwide, but discovering and making sense of these data is very challenging. This paper considers the problem of exploring and analyzing the Web to realize three fundamental objectives: 1.) security relevant information discovery; 2.) target situational awareness, typically by making (near) real-time inferences concerning events and activities from available observations; and 3.) predictive analysis, to include providing early warning for crises and forming predictions regarding likely outcomes of emerging issues and contemplated interventions. The proposed approach involves collecting and integrating three types of Web data, textual, relational, and temporal, to perform assessments and generate insights that would be difficult or impossible to obtain using standard methods. We demonstrate the efficacy of the framework by summarizing a number of successful real-world deployments of the methodology.
Social and Information Networks (cs.SI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Physics - Physics and Society, FOS: Physical sciences, Computer Science - Social and Information Networks, Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
Social and Information Networks (cs.SI), FOS: Computer and information sciences, Physics - Physics and Society, FOS: Physical sciences, Computer Science - Social and Information Networks, Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
| citations This is an alternative to the "Influence" indicator, which also reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | 22 | |
| popularity This indicator reflects the "current" impact/attention (the "hype") of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network. | Top 10% | |
| influence This indicator reflects the overall/total impact of an article in the research community at large, based on the underlying citation network (diachronically). | Top 10% | |
| impulse This indicator reflects the initial momentum of an article directly after its publication, based on the underlying citation network. | Top 10% |
