Situation Detection Based on Knowledge Fusion Patterns

Abstract. With the increasing use of sensors and actuators in technical systems and knowledge-intensive services the need for processing the information captured by these sensors and “making sense ” out of it increases. Knowledge fusion is supposed to contribute to this field since it aims at integrating knowledge from different sources. Development of knowledge fusion solutions is a complex task which can be compared to systems and software development. As in other development areas there is a need for efficient development processes which can be supported by reusing solution parts, such as patterns or components. The paper brings together experiences from knowledge fusion sub-system development and from design of knowledge fusion patterns. The main contributions of this paper are (1) a real-world application scenario presenting typical requirements to knowledge fusion systems, (2) application of knowledge fusion patterns from context-based decision support to situation recognition, (3) recommendations from this application case