Automatic construction of domain theory for attack planning

Abstract

Terrorism organizations are devising increasingly sophisticated plans to conduct attacks. The ability of emulating or constructing attack plans by potential terrorists can help us understand the intents and motivation behind terrorism activities. A feasible computational method to construct plans is planning technique in AI. Traditionally, AI planning methods rely on a predefined domain theory which is compiled by domain experts manually. To facilitate domain theory construction and plan generation, we propose a method to construct domain theory automatically from free text data. The effectiveness of our proposed approach is evaluated empirically through experimental studies using real world terrorist plans .