this work will be complete september 2010 | tangram, proposer's information packet

technews quotes an article from National Journal (10/21/06) Vol. 38, No. 42, P. 57; Harris, Shane | subscription

Terrorist Profiling, Version 2.0
The document notes that up to now the guilt-by-association model has been the primary template for the derivation of suspicion scores, and this model has had considerable success in instances where a seed entity in a unknown group is known; "However, in the absence of a known seed entity, how do we score a person if nothing is known about their associates?" It describes Tangram as a system that "takes a systematic view of the [terrorist-detection] process, applying what is now a set of disjointed, cumbersome-to-configure technologies that are difficult for nontechnical users to apply, into a self-configuring, continuously operating intelligence analysis support system."| technews

one day there was a vision darpa called total information awareness (2001) renamed 2003 in terrorism information awareness program | wiki source

Among the shortcomings of terrorist profiling the Tangram document cops to is the difficulty of tracking terrorist behaviors in a constant state of flux, and terrorism researchers' inability to "readily distinguish the absolute scale of normal behaviors" either for terrorists or innocents. |technews

called intelligence value estimation.