Of Situations and Their Neighbors: Evolution and Similarity in Ontology-Based Approaches to Situation Awareness

Norbert Baumgartner; Werner Retschitzegger; Wieland Schwinger; Gabriele Kotsis; Christoph Schwietering

Of Situations and Their Neighbors: Evolution and Similarity in Ontology-Based Approaches to Situation Awareness

Norbert Baumgartner, Werner Retschitzegger, Wieland Schwinger, Gabriele Kotsis, Christoph Schwietering

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Abstract

Ontology-based approaches to situation awareness have gained increasing popularity in recent years. However, most current approaches face two inherent problems. First, they lack sufficient support for assessing evolutions of situations, which is crucial for informing (human) agents about emerging instances of interesting situation types. Second, they are confronted with the problem of recognizing situations that are just similar to a situation type an agent is interested in. Our approach contributed in this paper is based on conceptual neighborhoods of relations which we generalize to conceptual neighborhoods of situations. These conceptual neighborhoods turn out to be the basis for addressing both problems, the assessment of evolving as well as similar situations. The applicability of our approach is demonstrated by an in-depth case study in the domain of road traffic management.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Confernce on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2007), Roskilde, Denmark, August 2007
Publisher	Springer
ISBN (Print)	978-3-540-74254-8
Publication status	Published - 2007

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101027 Dynamical systems
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101015 Operations research
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101017 Game theory
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102002 Augmented reality
102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
102015 Information systems
102021 Pervasive computing
102025 Distributed systems
102027 Web engineering
202038 Telecommunications

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Baumgartner, N., Retschitzegger, W., Schwinger, W., Kotsis, G., & Schwietering, C. (2007). Of Situations and Their Neighbors: Evolution and Similarity in Ontology-Based Approaches to Situation Awareness. In Proceedings of the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Confernce on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2007), Roskilde, Denmark, August 2007 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)). Springer.

Baumgartner, Norbert ; Retschitzegger, Werner ; Schwinger, Wieland et al. / Of Situations and Their Neighbors: Evolution and Similarity in Ontology-Based Approaches to Situation Awareness. Proceedings of the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Confernce on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2007), Roskilde, Denmark, August 2007. Springer, 2007. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)).

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Of Situations and Their Neighbors: Evolution and Similarity in Ontology-Based Approaches to Situation Awareness. / Baumgartner, Norbert; Retschitzegger, Werner ; Schwinger, Wieland et al.
Proceedings of the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Confernce on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2007), Roskilde, Denmark, August 2007. Springer, 2007. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)).

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Baumgartner N, Retschitzegger W , Schwinger W , Kotsis G, Schwietering C. Of Situations and Their Neighbors: Evolution and Similarity in Ontology-Based Approaches to Situation Awareness. In Proceedings of the 6th International and Interdisciplinary Confernce on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 2007), Roskilde, Denmark, August 2007. Springer. 2007. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS)).

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