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Assessing Distributed Situation Awareness in Socio-Technical Systems with RiskSOAP

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Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries (ISCRAM-med 2015)

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Abstract

This research work introduces the Risk Situation Awareness Provision (RiskSOAP) methodology. The concept of ‘risk SA provision’ reflects the inherent, according to the system design and development, capability of each system part to provide its agent with SA about the presence of system threats and vulnerabilities, possibly leading to accidents. The RiskSOAP methodology is accompanied by its corresponding indicator, which is used to measure the capability of a complex socio-technical system to provide its agents with Situation Awareness (SA) about the presence of its threats and vulnerabilities. The RiskSOAP indicator also enables analysts to assess Distributed SA (DSA). RiskSOAP is applied to the socio-technical system involved in the Überlingen mid-air collision accident as a demonstration of how to apply the methodology and calculate the corresponding indicator.

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Notes

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    No methodology can perfectly fit all purposes or cover all aspects of a complex socio-technical system. However, an approximation of its behaviour and components can be based on systems theoretic hazard analysis techniques and early warning sign identification approaches.

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    The word ‘image’ was intentionally chosen, since the methodology is inspired by pattern matching; a comparison between a target image template and a query image.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Vassilissis Sofias 12, 67100, Xanthi, Greece

    Maria Mikela Chatzimichailidou & Ioannis M. Dokas

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  1. University of Tunis El Manar, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique, Tunis, Tunisia

    Narjès Bellamine Ben Saoud

  2. Grenoble Informatics Laboratory, Université Grenoble-Alpes, Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France

    Carole Adam

  3. University of Toulouse 1, Toulouse, France

    Chihab Hanachi

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Chatzimichailidou, M.M., Dokas, I.M. (2015). Assessing Distributed Situation Awareness in Socio-Technical Systems with RiskSOAP. In: Bellamine Ben Saoud, N., Adam, C., Hanachi, C. (eds) Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management in Mediterranean Countries. ISCRAM-med 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 233. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24399-3_9

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