Approaches to Context-Based Proactive Decision Support

Abstract

Research into decision-making and decision support has long implicitly included the context of the decision as an important perspective on how a decision is made and how improved decisions could be engineered. Only recently has context itself begun to be studied explicitly to determine precisely how it affects decision-making and how it can be leveraged to create automated decision support. This symposium brings together current results in this area, all sponsored by the Office of Naval Research’s Proactive Decision Support program, with the common goal of explicitly representing context and using it to create decision support that is both proactive and context-sensitive.