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Situation Management: Basic Concepts and Approaches

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This paper scopes the issues of Situation Management in dynamic systems, defines the basic concepts of Situation Management, and identifies several key enabling technologies. Particular focus of the paper is given to situation modeling. The paper reviews major aspects of situation modeling and discusses associated technologies, including Situation Calculus, Situation Semantics, Situation Control, Situation Awareness and others. In more detail we discuss an approach to situation management based on multi-agent systems, event correlation and case-based reasoning.

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  1. Altusys Corp., USA

    Gabriel Jakobson

  2. Avaya, USA

    John Buford

  3. Southern New Hampshire U., USA

    Lundy Lewis

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  1. Geoinformation Systems, 39, 14th Linia, V.O., 199178, St. Petersburg, Russia

    Vasily V. Popovich (Dr Sci Tech, Head of Laboratory of Object Oriented) (Dr Sci Tech, Head of Laboratory of Object Oriented)

  2. Central European Institute of Technology, Department for Urbanism, Transport, Environment & Information Society, CEIT ALANOVA gemeinnützige GmbH, Am Concorde Park 2, Gebäude F, A-2320, Schwechat, Austria

    Manfred Schrenk

  3. NUWC, Code 1543, B1320 1176 Howell St, Newport, RI, 02841-1708

    Kyrill V. Korolenko P.E. (Chief Scientist) (Chief Scientist)

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Jakobson, G., Buford, J., Lewis, L. (2007). Situation Management: Basic Concepts and Approaches. In: Popovich, V.V., Schrenk, M., Korolenko, K.V. (eds) Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-37629-3_2

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