Generic Pattern of Life and behaviour analysis

Abstract

Despite being widely used within the field of intelligence generation, there is no formal definition for the concept of Pattern of Life (PoL). PoL analysis is applicable to the behaviours of human and non-human entities in a wide range of applications. Currently, humans generate PoL intelligence manually and this is a time consuming task, often leading to humans being overloaded with data. This paper reviews the field and defines a set of generic PoL concepts that provide a consistent set of terminology for use in PoL based research. A generic PoL processing scheme is proposed which can be the basis of systems that will automatically produce PoL intelligence from heterogeneous data, ready for further exploitation by the human operator.