@inproceedings{berk:pqs, author = {Vincent Berk and Wayne Chung and Valentino Crespi and George Cybenko and Robert Gray and Diego Hernando and Guofei Jiang and Han Li and Yong Sheng}, title = {Process Query Systems for Surveillance and Awareness}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh World Multiconference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2003)}, year = {2003}, month = {July}, publisher = {International Institute of Informatics and Systemics}, copyright = {IIIS}, address = {Orlando, FL}, group = {agents,coabs}, url = {http://agent.cs.dartmouth.edu/papers/berk:pqs.pdf}, abstract = {Many surveillance and sensing applications involve the detection of dynamic processes. Examples include battlefield situation awareness (where the processes are vehicles and troop movements), computer and network security (where the processes are worms and other types of attacks), and homeland security (where the processes are terrorist financing, planning, recruiting, and attack-execution activities). A Process Query System (PQS) is a novel and powerful software front-end to a database or real-time sensing infrastructure that allows users to define processes at a high level of abstraction and submit process definitions as queries. We describe a current working implementation that has been used for vehicle tracking using an acoustic sensor network and for computer worm detection.} }