This book presents a framework for converting multitudes of data streams available today including weather patterns, stock prices, social media, traffic information, and disease incidents into actionable insights based on situation recognition.
Introduction.- Understanding and Using Situations.- Related Work on Situation Recognition.- Overall Framework for Situation Recognition: Overview.- Situation Modeling.- Data Representation and Situation Recognition Operators.- EventShop: System Architecture.- Using EventShop.- Case Studies: Using EventShop for Creating Multiple Situation Recognition Applications.- Research Directions: Challenges and Opportunities.