Anita will design and develop a novel knowledge-based user-centred investigation system for analysing heterogeneous (text, audio, video, image) online (Surface Web, Deep Web, DarkNet) and offline content for fighting illegal trafficking of drugs, counterfeit medicines, NPS and firearms.
ANITA will combine:
- innovative data source analysis of crypto-currency network and transactions and blockchain technologies;
- advanced Big Data analytics tools for automatic analysis of the vast amounts of multimodal content of the identified sources;
- sophisticated methodologies for capturing, modelling and inferring knowledge in human understandable forms (e.g. expressive ontologies), extracting also relevant and new knowledge from neural networks and formally storing it in the form of ontologies;
- development of an adaptive, cognitive user modelling framework that will capture, analyse, interpret, mimic and integrate key human cognitive and information processing functions;
- domain-related and user-oriented intelligence applications, which will enable users to identify patterns for spatial, temporal and causal correlations among illegal trafficking events, entities and activities and to support decision-making processes for countermeasures to undertake.
Project Duration: 36 months
Period: May 2018 – Apr 2021
Type of Funding: H2020- RIA – SEC-12-FCT-2016-2017 – Project ID: 787061
