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SCARE: The Spatio-Cultural Abductive Reasoning Engine 
SCARE is the Spatio-Cultural Abductive Reasoning Engine is a piece of software that leverages a theory known as "geospatial abduction" to locate weapons caches in a counter-insurgency environment.  The current version is "Combat-SCARE/Afghanistan" or C-SCARE/A and is designed from the ground-up to support operation in Afghanistan.  This NSC project is currently OSD-funded.  SCARE is the continuation of work originally started at the University of Maryland: 
 
 
 
SCARE in the News:  
 
 
 
SCARE Publications
   
Shakarian, P. Nagel, M. Schuetzle, B. Subrahmanian, V.S. (2011) Abductive Inference for Combat: Using SCARE-S2 to Find High-Value Targets in Afghanistan.Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, North America, Aug. 2011.
 
 
SCARE Team
 
 

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