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Re:Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery by stcredzero on Saturday May 28, 2011 @01:58PM (#2594855)
Mode awareness

My opinion is that requiring mode awareness is a big chunk of overhead. It should be eliminated wherever possible.

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Re:Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery by sanj on Saturday May 28, 2011 @02:27PM (#2594922)
Modes allow you to subdivide the problem space: only certain actions/transitions can occur in a given mode.

Removing that restriction allows anything to happen at any time. This is believed to be more complex to model.

Think of modes as a mechanism to prune a decision tree.

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Re:Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery by rbanffy on Saturday May 28, 2011 @04:22PM (#2595139)
The problem with modes is that if you are wrong about what mode you are in, you'll make wrong decisions.
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Re:Report on Air France 447 crash deepens mystery by stcredzero on Tuesday May 31, 2011 @11:53AM (#2603058)
I wonder if there's research about mode awareness in crisis situations?
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