@misc{cogprints472, editor = {Partick Brezillon and Suhayya Abu-Hakima}, title = {Modeling Context with Situations}, author = {Mehmet Surav and Varol Akman}, publisher = {Laboratoire Formes et Intelligence Artificiele (LAFORIA), Institut Blaise Pascal, Universite Paris VI, Paris, France}, year = {1995}, pages = {145--156}, keywords = {context, commonsense reasoning, situation theory, lifting, logic, knowledge representation, inference.}, url = {http://cogprints.org/472/}, abstract = {The issue of context arises in assorted areas of Artificial Intelligence. Although its importance is realized by various researchers, there is not much work towards a useful formalization. In this paper, we will present a preliminary model (based on Situation Theory) and give examples to show the use of context in various fields, and the advantages gained by the acceptance of our proposal.} }