Chesapeake Large-Scale Analytics Conference

The seventh CLSAC workshop will examine the theory and practice of high consequence analytics at scale in industry, science, defense, and law enforcement.  Using predictions, classification, discovered relationships, and decision sets, high consequence analytics create actionable insights that impact human life, critical infrastructure, national economies, international relationships, and social institutions.  This year’s focus will examine the unique nature of high consequence analytics at scale from the perspective of taking action, understanding how the proposed action was derived, the critical sources of data, and the unique systems-level challenges of building High Consequence systems.   These systems constitute unique software and hardware environments capable of handling large data sets with hard predictive deadlines. They must be credible, trustworthy, scalable, resilient, and resistant to attack.  The results must reflect high confidence.

CLSAC brings together thought leaders across industry, government, and academia to discuss critical challenges for high consequence analytics.  

Important questions include: 

• What motivates the community to find solutions (e.g., what are the consequences)?
• What requirements are imposed by the scale of the data and the variety of data sources available?
• What are the privacy and other ethical requirements of using such a system?
• How do we determine whether or not action should be taken?
• How do we audit such action?
• What do the hardware and software systems need to do to achieve these goals?
• What are the human factors?