Research shows that generating new knowledge is accomplished via natural human means: mental insights, scientific inquiry process, sensing, actions, and experiences, while context is information, which characterizes the knowledge and gives it meaning [8]. This knowledge is acquired via scientific research requiring the focused development of an established set of criteria, approaches, designs, and analysis, as inputs into potential solutions. This cross-domain research is more commonplace, made possible by vast arrays of available web based search engines, devices, information content, and tools. Consequently, greater amounts of inadvertent cross-domain information content are exposed to wider audiences. Researchers and others, expecting specific results to queries end up acquiring somewhat ambiguous results and responses broader in scope. Therefore, resulting in a lengthy iterative learning process and query refinement, until sought after knowledge is discovered. This recursive refinement of knowledge and context occurs as user cognitive system interaction, over a period in time, where the granularity of information content results are analyzed, followed by the formation of relationships and related dependencies [17]. Ultimately the knowledge attained from assimilating the information content reaches a threshold of decreased ambiguity and level of understanding, which acts as a catalyst for decision-making, subsequently followed by actionable activity or the realization that a given objective or inference has been attained [4, 5].
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