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FCW.com. by Dibya Sarkar, Nov. 19, 2004

... Rand researchers have published -- in a recent study titled "Out of the Ordinary: Finding Hidden Threats by Analyzing Unusual Behavior" -- what they characterize as a better process for sifting through relevant information to provide more useful results for intelligence and homeland security agencies.

Through a multilayered approach, Rand's Atypical Signal Analysis and Processing (ASAP) network and database gathers out-of-the-ordinary or atypical information, relates it to other pieces of data and develops working assumptions that can be modified as more information becomes available.

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