A formal method to analyse human reasoning and interpretation in incident management. (18th August 2008)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bosse, Tibor; Hoogendoorn, Mark; Jonker, Catholijn M.; Treur, Jan
• Is Part Of: International journal of emergency management. Volume 5:Number 1/2(2008)
• Page Start: 164
• Page End: 192
• Publication Date: 2008-08-18
• Subjects: formal methods -- human reasoning -- interpretation -- incident management -- emergency management -- nonmonotonic logic -- crisis management; Emergency management -- Periodicals; 658.47705
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1471-4825

Abstract

The study of human reasoning often concentrates on reasoning from an already assumed interpretation of the world, thereby neglecting reasoning towards an interpretation. In the recent literature within cognitive science, the means taken from the area of nonmonotonic logic are proposed to analyse the latter aspect of human reasoning. In this paper, this claim is further worked out and tested against the empirical material of human reasoning during critical situations (incident management). Empirical and simulated reasoning traces have been analysed by comparing them and by automatically checking their properties.