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Environmental situation awareness in this study focuses on monitoring techniques to discover public safety and potential risks at local spots. Changing amount of radiation dose recently has become a great concern by citizen near nuclear power plants. Observation approach to resolution of the concern in this study is the application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle equipped with a situation monitor in order...
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Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web > 2010 > 8 > 2-3 > 110-124
With the growing interests in semantic web services and context-aware computing, the importance of ontologies, which enable us to perform context-aware reasoning, has been accepted widely. While domain-specific and general-purpose ontologies have been developed, few attempts have been made for a situation ontology that can be employed directly to support activity-oriented context-aware services. In...
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Different systems of modal logic are possible. Consequently, the question arises, whether any one of them is more credible than others, and what kind of arguments can be adduced in its defense. In the article the author discusses the assumption that the possible world is a maximal situation (in the sense of situation ontology).
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Service-oriented architecture has the major advantage of enabling rapid composition of distributed applications from various services, and has become increasingly popular for many large-scale service-based systems in various application areas, including scientific collaboration, e-business, health care, military, and homeland security. Situation awareness (SAW) is the capability of the entities in...
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Filozofia Nauki > 2006 > 14 > 3(55) > 111-124
In this article a certain 'aestethical' argument in favor of the situation ontology is presented. The connections between the claims concerning ontology, semantics and grammar are examined. The main thesis of the article is, that assuming the non-compositionality principle commits us to the acceptance of the primacy of situation.
