The main purpose of this paper is to outline a holistic answer to the following question: How to deal with problematic situations? A framework of a modern approach, a new meta-discipline, based on knowledge and experience from several other disciplines will be presented. We are focusing in those social interventions where the participation of both the user or clients and the facilitators or adv...

This paper explores the relationship between Situation Awareness, Common Operating Pictures and Data Fusion to expose the need for Situation and Impact Assessments. A framework for Situation Assessments is then proposed and illustrated through reference to footage from the movie, “The Hunt for Red October”

This paper presents a format for representing the l inguist ic form of utterances, cal led situation schemata, which is rooted in the situation semantics of Barwise and Perry. A treatment of locative prepositional phrases is given, thus illustrating the generat ion of the situation schemata and their interpretation in situation semantics. I n t r o d u c t i o n A natural language system aims t...

We consider time-dependent systems and their possible states or situations. In order to do this, we define suitable algebraic structures, including time. Situation descriptions are represented with the corresponding formulas and we look at inferences from formulas, where the inference may be partially incorrect. We define the measure of correctness and show how it can be used to compare the pla...

The PUNDIT system processes natural language descriptions of situations and the intervais over which they hold using an algorithm that integrates ~peet and ~en~e [ogle. It analyzes the tense and aspect of the realverb to generate representations of three types of situations-states, processes and events-and to locate the situations with respect to the time at which the text was produced. Each si...

This paper presents a logical axiomatization of bargaining solutions. A bargaining situation is described in propositional logic and the bargainers’ preferences are quantified in terms of the logical structure of the bargaining situation. A solution to the n-person bargaining problems is proposed based on the maxmin rule over the degrees of bargainers’ satisfaction. We show that the solution is...

216 May 2009 Persons with borderline personality disorder (BPD) and related traits appear in many forensic psychiatry settings. Their clinical hallmarks affecting judgment, insight, impulsivity, motivations, and regulation of emotions, as well as their frequently chaotic lives (internal and external), inaccurate perceptions, rationalizations, and comorbid syndromes can have a marked effect on m...

In this chapter we propose some new tools for mapping systems development projects. Maps—as we propose them—contain descriptions and interpretations of project situations: they are helpful in collecting and organizing relevant, often neglected knowledge and experience. Maps are cognitive constructs containing pictures that actors make of the situation in which they are involved. They are typica...