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Research Topic Description, including Problem Statement:
The Internet of Things, software vulnerability assessments, ontologies, and social networks, among other areas, can be modelled as graph-structured data and analyzed using complex graph theory and network analysis. Graph theory analysis can identify reoccurring events and community structures. The structure of a network is key to its function, and of particular interest is the discovery of repeating patterns across a single large complex network without prior information. A pattern in a network may represent a reoccurring event or a key functional block. The expectation is that the presence of patterns will not be limited to communities or functional blocks and could form in any part of the graph structure. Methods exist to detect the occurrences of a pattern within a network, such as subgraph isomorphism matching, however these require prior information of the pattern structure. The key to this problem statement is the unsupervised discovery of the patterns, using either machine learning (ML) or non-ML methods.
As the scale and complexity of these networks are increasing rapidly, there is a computational challenge to pattern discovery. Pattern discovery in small and static networks may be done manually, but it is becoming progressively less feasible and quality of analysis will be low. There are limited algorithms available to discover small patterns within moderate-sized heterogeneous networks, such as motif-detection and the graph-based data-mining system Subdue.[1] However, these do not scale to larger or more complex scenarios. Steps in the direction of unsupervised pattern discovery are apparent through research into Graph Neural Networks among other methods.
Complex network datasets are available; however, none have been identified to have existing labelled repeating patterns. These include but are not limited to:
Reference:
[1] Ketkar, N, Holder, L and Cook, D., "Subdue: compression-based frequent pattern discovery in graph data". 2005, ACM.
Example Approaches:
A scalable method for the discovery of large repeating patterns within a single complex network graph is required. Innovative solutions, using either ML or non-ML methods, are sought to develop the ability to identify repeating patterns across a single large and complex network. Our current focus is the discovery of large patterns (50-100 nodes) in complex (>100,000 nodes) static networks (i.e. not changing over time) with no prior knowledge of their structure, and their exact matches across the network. The key constraint is that there will be no prior knowledge of the patterns. Rather than searching for instances of a known pattern, the requirement is to discover the patterns that exist within the network data. Proposals may wish to consider how the method may apply or extend to:
Proposals should include:
The potential to adapt the method for non-exact pattern matching and pattern discovery within a temporal dataset may also be included with the consideration for future work. However, the key focus should be on static networks.
Technical collaboration will be provided during the research process. Classified data will be used to test and assess methods, and feedback will be provided for further development.
Relevance to the Intelligence Community:
Pattern discovery using graph theory has several identified use cases across the Intelligence Community (IC) including:
Successful pattern detection will provide insight into areas of understanding where human capability is a limitation. Further advancement of this work will enable improved analysis of temporal data. This may lead to identification of repeating or interconnected events across a network which cannot be identified by human analysis.
This work will contribute to a large number of capabilities across the IC.
Key Words: Large Complex Networks, Network Analysis, Scalable, Pattern Discovery, Graph Theory
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