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Description
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The goal of SINTESYS (Security and INTelligence SYSstem) is to study, define and develop new technologies for the realization of an innovative integrated system which can analyse, plan, investigate 'open' multi-modal (text, images, video, audio, ...) data sources (OSINT - Open Source INTelligence) in an integrated, coherent and consistent way, in order to discover the presence of links, relationships, connections which the disjointed evaluation of individual sources would not be able to highlight, and thus to give an important contribution to the management of homeland security in terms of Decision Support System.
SINTESYS will be - not exclusively - directed to analysts who work in institutional sectors, supporting them in the most advanced Intelligence processes through collection, processing, analysis and distribution of information. For this purpose, SINTESYS will use and combine techniques, technologies and innovative models for sound analysis, image recognition, movie recognition, social network analysis, text mining, human computer interaction, cognitive psychology, along with models and techniques for information fusion and artificial intelligence. SINTESYS will also establish new models and innovative techniques (e.g. based on quantum mechanics) to analyse the social dynamics within groups and communities, in order to provide the genesis and the flow of hidden information which may be of importance for security issues.
SINTESYS therefore proposes to create an integrated software system equipped with advanced tools for analyzing and correlating vast amounts of data from a variety of heterogeneous, multichannel and multimodal information sources. Using innovative techniques of feature extraction in a combined and integrated way on the same contents, will enable synergy and "disambiguation" of data. This analysis, together with a study on correlation of the same data, will lead to the emergence of situations of potential danger to public security, ranging from recognition and localization of socially dangerous groups of people or individuals, to the discovery of communicative dynamics which may suggest the need to monitor for prevention aims.
The system will be designed to be flexible to suit the various needs of intelligence analysts, who will be able to navigate data using intelligent graphical user interfaces which will adapt to different types of information sources and to the actual user needs, through a specific survey of the interaction habits and a psychological study on interaction patterns.
To satisfy this last requirement, the project aims to create a framework, which will enable developers to integrate other information sources. SINTESYS will endow the system with tools to manage - either on user demand (reactive) or autonomously (proactive) - decision processes which can respond adequately to the configurations of 'significant' events provided by the correlation of information.
The reference architecture will provide the specifications which define the functional components of the system, the relationships between such components and the constraints which the components must satisfy. The technologies developed will be based on the current state of the art, with particular attention to open source environments.
The innovative character of expected results within the SINTESYS project will lead to the growth of various markets and sectors related to the homeland security with benefits in terms of lower operating costs, increasing profitability and new job opportunities.
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Distribution
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Advancement of distribution in %
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Total amount distributed
3,910,991.67 euro
NOP R&C distributed amount
3,525,553.17 euro
PAC distributed amount
0.00 euro
Amount distributed with other funds
385,438.50 euro
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