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RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) -- Researchers from UC Riverside and Lucent Technologies are working with an $800,000 grant from the Department of Homeland Security to evaluate the effectiveness of modern data-mining tools to discover patterns of behavior that may reveal threats to national security.

The goal of the one-year project is to determine how to test these systems and compare their effectiveness. The core of the project is the examination of data-mining tools.

“These are tools that look through different types of data and try to piece together a story,” said Daniel Jeske, a principal investigator and UCR statistics professor. “The tools say an event could happen based on patterns that are found in the data. Sometimes the tools are referred to as information-discovery systems.”

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