{"title":"Enhancement of industrial monitoring systems by utilizing context awareness","authors":"A. N. Lee, J. Lastra","doi":"10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523858","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523858","url":null,"abstract":"Current industrial monitoring systems gather big amounts of data which are provided to plant personnel for maintaining the proper function and desired production performance. Unfortunately, these systems do not take into account context as part of the plant, leaving out useful information that could be useful for personnel when they perform their everyday tasks. This context information includes data that are implicit to the system but is not measured, like the temperature of the room, location and time; and other system information that already exists but has not been integrated into the monitoring system, like 3D models and manuals. Therefore, there is a need for a monitoring system that integrates context data and existing plant information to provide dynamically only the most relevant information for users when it is needed. The information should be in the right modality based on the state of the system, user, environment and functionalities of the device used for providing the information. This paper presents a proposal for a context-aware industrial monitoring system. Its main characteristics, components, requirements and possible enabling technologies are presented. In order to illustrate the expected benefits of the approach, a representative scenario of the domain of discrete manufacturing is provided. Finally, feature and constrains are discussed and future steps are presented.","PeriodicalId":243766,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA)","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117156911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ontologies for probabilistic situation assessment in the maritime domain","authors":"Y. Fischer, J. Beyerer","doi":"10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523830","url":null,"abstract":"In the maritime domain, surveillance systems are used to track vessels in a certain area of interest. The resulting vessel tracks are then displayed in a dynamic map. However, the interpretation of the dynamic environment, i.e., the situation assessment (SA) process, is still done by human experts. Several methods exist that can be used for automatic SA, but often they are based on machine learning algorithms and do not include the knowledge of the decision maker. In this article, we describe how expert knowledge can be used to determine models for automatic SA. The knowledge about situations of interest is modeled as an ontology, which can be transformed into a dynamic Bayesian network (DBN). The main challenge of this transformation is the determination of the structure and the parameter settings of the DBN. The resulting DBN can be connected to real-time vessel tracks and is able to estimate the existence of the situation of interest in every time step.","PeriodicalId":243766,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA)","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127261821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing applications interoperability in context management for practice tasks","authors":"Zhou Zhong, Junzhong Gu, Yuanyuan Zhang, Xin Lin","doi":"10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523834","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523834","url":null,"abstract":"Currently, with the emerging of Clouds and Internet Of Things technologies, researches of context-aware applications have extended from individual-smart-space to ubiquitous intelligent environments. A context management system (CMS) is an important component of a context-aware middleware that supports distributed, context-aware applications to obtain context information from pervasive computing environments. Several CMS architecture solutions have been proposed to transparently implement context management and provisioning in the distributed system. This paper is focused on the cross-context in CMSs. As a production of the ubiquitous computing, cross-context is the situation that context sharing in different CMSs influences both the context computing of these CMSs. To solve the cross context, we address the importance of the cross task management and cognitive context query between CMSs. According to our scenario, an architecture is designed to support the interoperability and collaboration between CMSs adaptively. Compared with previous works, the paper defines the cross context to distinguish it from general context sharing, and the architecture combines with both dynamic task modeling and the context searching engine to support scheduling when cross-context happens. In an emergency, the dynamic task modeling is designed for adapting to the human users' urgent requirements or their quick wits in cross-context. And the context searching engine is provided to search the key information for organizing new plans.","PeriodicalId":243766,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115354641","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Automated recognition of firearms in surveillance video","authors":"M. Grega, Seweryn Lach, Radoslaw Sieradzki","doi":"10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523822","url":null,"abstract":"CCTV surveillance systems are being deployed in workplaces, urban areas and almost every public space. The number of CCTV video streams surpasses the ability of a human operator to watch and analyse the situation carefully with respect to potentially dangerous situations, such as “Active Shooter Events”. Such events as the tragedy in the movie theatre in Colorado (USA) or Oslo (Norway) require an immediate response. In this paper, we propose and benchmark an algorithm that is capable of detecting a person carrying an uncovered firearm and alerting the CCTV operator of a potentially dangerous situation. We present the limitations and difficulties for such an image analysis application, discuss the construction of the proposed algorithm, and show the numerical results in terms of sensitivity and specificity.","PeriodicalId":243766,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117038928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stealthy attacks on pheromone swarming","authors":"Janiece Kelly, Seth Richter, Mina Guirguis","doi":"10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523861","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523861","url":null,"abstract":"In multi-agent systems, digital pheromone swarming algorithms are used to coordinate agents to achieve complex and intelligent behaviors. Studies have shown that pheromone swarming systems are versatile, efficient and resilient to failures, and thus are applicable in various scenarios such as border control, area coverage, target tracking, search and rescue, etc. Due to their reliance on wireless communication channels - which are vulnerable to interference and jamming attacks - it becomes important to study the security of these systems under malicious conditions. In this paper, we investigate the security of pheromone swarming under different types of jamming attacks. In particular, we expose new types of stealthy attacks that aim to maximize the damage inflicted on the swarm while reducing the risk of exposure. Unlike complete Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, the attacks exposed select which signal to interfere with based on the current state of the swarm. We have assessed the impact of the attacks through new metrics that expose the tradeoff between damage and cost. Our results show that the exposed attacks are more potent than traditional DoS-like attacks. Our results are obtained from simulation experiments and real physical implementation using a number of iRobot Create robots in our Mobile Cyber-Physical Systems lab.","PeriodicalId":243766,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127928704","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On conceptualization of eventualities in Situation Management","authors":"G. Jakobson","doi":"10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523826","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523826","url":null,"abstract":"While there is an extensive body of research available in understanding the spatiotemporal eventualities of reality, we still face noticeable confusion in conceptualization of such basic notions like states, events, and actions. This is becoming increasingly evident when one has to deal with dynamic systems, especially systems that are subject of interest in situation awareness, situation control, and real-time decision support. The question is not only in the existence of terminological discrepancies across different domains, but more importantly, conceptual inconsistencies. In this paper we will review the metaphysical studies of states, events and actions prevailing in the modern philosophy and show what kind of new requirements are set for understanding these concepts in Situation Management. We will outline a conceptualization framework for future research in understanding the role and inter-dependencies among situations, events and actions.","PeriodicalId":243766,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132702355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Quantitative methods for ranking critical events","authors":"J. diVita, R. Morris","doi":"10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523833","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523833","url":null,"abstract":"A technique using the Choquet integral will be investigated that will monitor the environment by sampling current utility values of criteria and aggregate this information to provide a means to determine the most suitable surface naval asset to be re-deployed in order to accomplish an unscheduled mission. This paper will present promising initial findings which supports the claim that the Choquet integral can be used to represent expert knowledge in the situation where the criteria are dependent. The results will be applied to the ranking of destroyers for re-deployment.","PeriodicalId":243766,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114799306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Space encoding based human activity modeling and situation perception","authors":"Qingquan Sun, Rui Ma, Qi Hao, Fei Hu","doi":"10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523845","url":null,"abstract":"Human activity refers to a collection of motions and actions from either an individual or a group. Human activity study aims to recognize subjects' behavioral patterns and understand their situations. Human activity analysis and situation perception can be used to enhance the performance of various applications ranging from healthcare to surveillance and energy efficient buildings, etc. This paper presents a space encoding based framework for human activity information acquisition/analysis and situation perception. The novelties of this paper include: 1) efficient activity information acquisition based on a space encoding method; 2) reliable human activity representation based on stable statistical distributions; 3) effective activity-to-situation correlation based on data learning methods. Both simulations and experiments are performed by using pressure sensors deployed on the floor. The preliminary results have demonstrated the advantages of the proposed method.","PeriodicalId":243766,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA)","volume":"302 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128624488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Behavior instance extraction for risk aware control in mission centric systems","authors":"John M. Pecarina, Jyh-Charn S. Liu","doi":"10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523823","url":null,"abstract":"In the pursuit of behavior modeling for dynamic policy management and usage control, mission centric systems are the most important to examine, not only because situation dynamics can dramatically alter the collaboration environment, but also since behavior in these systems is constrained by mission objectives or workflows. Traditional mission decomposition into tasks and objectives has led to static policy deployment and role based views of access control and, but we propose Risk-Adaptive Mission Policy (RAMP) to enable commanders to automate decisions to constrain or proliferate access depending on behavioral context and risk assessment for successful mission outcomes. As the critical source of knowledge to enable this new methodology, we formulate the behavior instance extraction problem (BIEP) to pre-process unstructured activity data and mine interesting behaviors for modeling applications. Finally, we develop the workflow behavior instance extraction algorithm to tailor a solution to BIEP specifically for RAMP. Our evaluation weighs performance against new functionality to show that our work supports risk aware security decisions for dynamic situation management in mission centric environments.","PeriodicalId":243766,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA)","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129793565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cognitive shadow: A policy capturing tool to support naturalistic decision making","authors":"D. Lafond, S. Tremblay, S. Banbury","doi":"10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523837","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/COGSIMA.2013.6523837","url":null,"abstract":"Policy capturing is an approach to decision analysis using statistical models such as multiple linear regression or machine learning algorithms to approximate the mental models of decision makers. The present work seeks to apply a robust policy capturing technique to functionally mirror expert mental models and create individually-tailored cognitive assistants. The “cognitive shadow” method aims to improve decision quality by recognizing probable errors in cases where the decision maker is diverging from his usual judgmental patterns. The tool actually shadows the decision maker by un-intrusively monitoring the situation and comparing its own decisions to those of the human decision maker, and then provides advisory warnings in case of a mismatch. The support methodology is designed to be minimally intrusive to avoid an increase in cognitive load, either in real-time or off-line dynamic decision making situations. Importantly, user trust is likely to be a key asset since the cognitive shadow is derived from one's own judgments. A use case of the cognitive shadow is described within the context of a maritime threat classification task, using the classic CART decision tree induction algorithm for policy capturing. This approach is deemed applicable to a large variety of domains such as supervisory control, intelligence analysis and surveillance in defence and security, and of particular relevance in high-reliability organizations with low tolerance for error.","PeriodicalId":243766,"journal":{"name":"2013 IEEE International Multi-Disciplinary Conference on Cognitive Methods in Situation Awareness and Decision Support (CogSIMA)","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128835694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}