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The Role of Context and its Elements in Situation Assessment

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This chapter presents an analysis of the concept of context in situation assessment. Situation assessment is the process that develops a situation awareness, which is the basis for deciding which action to perform in a given situation. The contributions of the research documented here include a knowledge level model of situation assessment, a context element ontology and an analysis of the role of context in situation assessment, which are based on models of situation awareness and context found in the literature. The knowledge level model includes a task decomposition, a task description, and a goal analysis. Finally, this view is illustrated in a short example.

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  1. Verdande Technology AS, Stiklestadveien 1, 7041, Trondheim, Norway

    Odd Erik Gundersen

  2. Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Sem Sælands vei 7-9, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    Odd Erik Gundersen

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Gundersen, O. (2014). The Role of Context and its Elements in Situation Assessment. In: Brézillon, P., Gonzalez, A. (eds) Context in Computing. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1887-4_22

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