A Modern Approach to Situation Awareness: The Ultimate Challenge for Event Processing

Wikipedia states: "Situational awareness or situation awareness (SA) is the perception of environmental elements and events with respect to time or space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their future status." [1] In 1976 John Boyd published a model he named OODA-loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act) to capture the main elements of Situation Awareness. However, this is a pre-IT model that needs to be updated to leverage as much IT technology as possible; KIDS (Knowledge Intensive Data-management Systems) is such a model [6]. KIDS captures data, identifies abnormal conditions, transforms the data related to these abnormal conditions into the language of domain experts, give guidance to the interpretation (classification and assessment), and recommends reactions. While many required technologies, especially event processing, are available they have to be embedded/organized into a comprehensive SA model; some of these technologies must be extended and (significantly) improved.