Abstract
When an actor is selecting an action in order to fulfill its intents, in a given context, the actor’s knowledge and beliefs about the specific context will impact the possibility to achieve a desired outcome. The context is often affected by unobserved, or unmeasured, factors, which can impact the result of the desired outcome.
The context specific knowledge and beliefs an actor has about a domain, together with the possibilities to evaluate and learn which actions shall be taken, are packaged into a context frame. Our intention with this study is to evaluate an implementation of such a context frame. The context frame concept is meant to support actors to fulfill their intents in a given knowledge domain, by enforcing the needed, and available, actions which cause effects on the outcomes. We have built our implementation of the context frame on the OODA-loop, Pask’s conversation theory, and structural causal models, by using a Bayesian approach, and probabilistic programming.
The research approach is based on evaluation research. We evaluated our implementation with the help of a proof of concept. During the proof of concept we used data sets containing decisions about treatment and survival analysis regarding cancer patients, information obtained during focus group interviews, and questionnaire data.
The proof of concept used to evaluate our implementation of a context frame was regarded as successful and the concept of context frames deemed as useful.
Our division of a context frame in three parts, supported by four different types of analysis functions, made it easier to create a solution which supports evaluation and learning.
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Silvander, J. (2021). On Context Frames and Their Implementations. In: Shishkov, B. (eds) Business Modeling and Software Design. BMSD 2021. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 422. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79976-2_8
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