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A Novel Architecture for Situation Awareness Systems
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A Novel Architecture for Situation Awareness Systems
Franz Baader20 , Andreas Bauer21, 22 , Peter Baumgartner21, 22 , Anne Cregan22 , Alfredo Gabaldon23 , Krystian Ji22 , Kevin Lee22, 24 , David Rajaratnam22, 24 and Rolf Schwitter25 
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Technische Universität Dresden, Germany |
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Australian National University, |
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National ICT Australia (NICTA), Australia |
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Center for AI, New University of Lisbon, Portugal |
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University of New South Wales, Australia |
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Macquarie University, Australia |
Abstract
Situation Awareness (SA) is the problem of comprehending elements of an environment within a volume of time and space. It is a crucial factor
in decision-making in dynamic environments. Current SA systems support the collection, filtering and presentation of data
from different sources very well, and typically also some form of low-level data fusion and analysis, e.g., recognizing patterns over time. However, a still open research challenge is to build systems
that support higher-level information fusion, viz., to integrate domain specific knowledge and automatically draw conclusions that would otherwise
remain hidden or would have to be drawn by a human operator. To address this challenge, we have developed a novel system architecture
that emphasizes the rôle of formal logic and automated theorem provers in its main components. Additionally, it features controlled
natural language for operator I/O. It offers three logical languages to adequately model different aspects of the domain.
This allows to build SA systems in a more declarative way than is possible with current approaches. From an automated reasoning
perspective, the main challenges lay in combining (existing) automated reasoning techniques, from low-level data fusion of
time-stamped data to semantic analysis and alert generation that is based on linear temporal logic. The system has been implemented
and interfaces with Google-Earth to visualize the dynamics of situations and system output. It has been successfully tested
on realistic data, but in this paper we focus on the system architecture and in particular on the interplay of the different
reasoning components.
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