BigData 2014 - Intelligence Management and Analytics Workshop

Big Data is the term applied to large and complex datasets that come from many sources such as financial transactions, social media and internet searches and have many applications especially within intelligence management and analytics for law enforcement agencies (LEAs). The handling of such large datasets can lead to a number of challenges, relating to the storage, sharing and analysis of data. The aim of this workshop is to facilitate a discussion around research on various aspects of Big Data, Intelligence management and Analytics with a key focus on the context of LEAs and other security organisations and to disseminate these results to the wider BigData community. The workshop is suitable for Big Data practitioners and researchers in the fields of security, crisis and intelligence management. Previous events were held in Silicon Valley (Big Data and Science: Infrastructure and Services workshop) and in Santa Clara (The International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Big Data Analytics) both as part of the IEEE BigData 2013 International Conference. The 3rd IEEE International Congress on Big Data will take place in Anchorage, Alaska in 2014 and the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE 2014) will take place in Beijing in September 2014.
Topics of Interest
? Application of Big Data for use by LEAs
? Application of Big Data in Security and Emergency Services
? Command and Control systems
? Emergency Crisis management and Big Data
? Cyber Investigation and defence using big data capabilities
? Decision support systems using big data analytics
? Ethical and legal implications of Big Data
? National Security and Big data
? Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)
? Secure Cloud Computing for government agencies
? Sentiment Analysis
? Social Media analytics
? Strategic intelligence management
? Tools and Technologies for big data analytics
? Anti-Poverty Initiatives using Big Data
? Big Data for Crisis Risk Reduction
The workshop is sponsored by CENTRIC and EU Athena Projects under EC grant number ATHENA 313220
The ATHENA Project is a European Union project that aims to the development of a crisis communication and management system. This system enables the participation of the public in the process of emergency communication for the purpose of citizen security in emergency situations and for search and rescue actions. The objectives of the project are the development of guidelines and software tools in the use of new media during crisis situations. The produced guidelines and tools will be used by LEAs, the police, first responders and citizens. The participants to the ATHENA Project are the West Yorkshire Police, Sheffield Hallam University, the International Organization for Migration, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V. (FKIE), SAS Software Ltd., the Municipality of Ljubljana, THALES Nederland BV, the Swedish National Defence College, EPAP Systems (NORDIC) AB, the Izmir Buyuksehir Belediyesi, Research in Motion Ltd., and Epidemico Ltd.