Interaction of intelligent and autonomous systems - Part I: Qualitative structuring of interaction

Abstract

In this part I of the study, the development and the background of a meta-modelling technique to structure complex environments of systems is illustrated. A special situation-operator-model (SOM) developed to model the human-machine-interaction (HMI) is understood as a structuring approach modelling the interaction of intelligent systems in general. Part I of this study is structured as follows: Section 1 reflects on the term modelling with respect to the task: how to model interaction of unknown interaction partners, Section 2 briefly reviews the basics of the previously published foundations of the work and the SOM. The developed situation-operator-metamodelling approach is used to illustrate the connections between control loops and algorithms in Section 3, including a systematic view of systems' interaction mechanisms. In part II (part II available in this issue, pp. 319-339) of the contribution, the practical applications of the introduced approach are shown.