Technosocial predictive analytics for illicit nuclear trafficking

Authors:
Antonio Sanfilippo;Scott Butner;Andrew Cowell;Angela Dalton;Jereme Haack;Sean Kreyling;Rick Riensche;Amanda White;Paul Whitney
Affiliations:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA;Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA
Venue:
SBP'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social computing, behavioral-cultural modeling and prediction
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Illicit nuclear trafficking networks are a national security threat. These networks can directly lead to nuclear proliferation, as state or nonstate actors attempt to identify and acquire nuclear weapons-related expertise, technologies, components, and materials. The ability to characterize and anticipate the key nodes, transit routes, and exchange mechanisms associated with these networks is essential to influence, disrupt, interdict or destroy the function of the networks and their processes. The complexities inherent to the characterization and anticipation of illicit nuclear trafficking networks requires that a variety of modeling and knowledge technologies be jointly harnessed to construct an effective analytical and decision making workflow in which specific case studies can be built in reasonable time and with realistic effort. In this paper, we explore a solution to this challenge that integrates evidentiary and dynamic modeling with knowledge management and analytical gaming, and demonstrate its application to a geopolitical region at risk.