This represents a significant issue for effective individual and group situational awareness and would have impacted upon shared mental models of the situation, resources required, and decisions to be made (Section 3).
Arthur attacked the question of whether to attend by constructing a simple model of the situation.
But then you already have your formal model of the situation you are talking about.
Awareness-based detection may include revising a model of the situation, finding hidden assumptions, and testing the plausibility of assumptions.
On this view, causal relations have the form: c causes e relative to M, where M is an apt causal model of the situation.
In this mode, the problem situation faced by the client is given to the operational research consultant, who then builds a model of the situation, solves the model to arrive at an optimal (or quasi-optimal) solution, and then provides a recommendation to the client based on the obtained solution.
Based on her knowledge of when pollution was introduced into the woods, the frequency of the two morphs in woods that have not been polluted, the underlying genetics of the two morphs, and her observed selection differential between them, she builds a population genetic model of the situation that predicts a relative frequency of the two morphs for the present.
Finally we show how to transform the probability model into a model of the Situation Calculus in which the learning phase has been reified into axioms for preconditions and effects of actions and, of course, these axioms are expressed in the language of thought.
According to his statement, his analysis of the deal is based on his own analysis, or "mental model" of the situation, and made solely by himself.
Fragmentary mental models are put together as the situation warrants to construct a comprehensive just-in-time mental model of the situation – one that is flexible, dynamic (changing over time) and context-specific [ 28, 29].
