Process detection in homeland security and defense applications

Process detection is a fundamental problem arising in a variety of homeland security, national defense and commercial applications, including network security, sensor network data fusion, dynamic social network analysis and video tracking of kinematic objects. Our approach to process detection is based on a generic algorithmic approach called Process Query Systems which has been developed at Dartmouth over the past 3 years. This paper surveys the general area of process detection, its applications and recent progress made in various implementations.