10 Examples of Situation Spaces
Jerzy Bartoszek, M. Skłodowskiej-Curie · 2007
An interaction of at least two constituents influences a final form of information system. On the one hand, the result is justified by our desire for data processing, and on the other – by a current state of the hardware and software technologies and the available computing infrastructures. Accordingly, methods of system designing and implementation but also concepts, models and architectures used in these processes, are continuously adopted and improved for better reflection of the characteristics of real problems (represented by data) and the ways of solving them (data processing). For today’s enterprises information is of primary value and one of the essential problems is being able to access the right information at the right time and to achieve this goal in a useful and user-friendly manner. For decision-makers the real problem is not a lack of information, but rather efficient extraction of required information from a great number of information sources. Current business solutions for SMEs (medium-sized enterprises), particularly search tools, are inadequate for global information structure mainly because of their syntaxorientation. Moreover, the way in which the information is stored and the way in which it can be accessed have not been designed to be interoperable. As the amount of information one has available to make economic decisions keeps growing, the advanced search engines enabling intelligent access to heterogeneous information sources ought to be provided. Designing the new business solutions that are semantic-oriented and context-aware is the main challenge for software engineers. It is also evident that we need new abstractions in information system to cope with explicit representation of divers aspects of (meta)knowledge, context and reasoning. in Context*-aware Business Solutions