TY - GEN
T1 - Engineering social reality with inheritance relations
AU - Aldewereld, Huib
AU - Alvarez-Napagao, Sergio
AU - Dignum, Frank
AU - Vázquez-Salceda, Javier
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - In systems based on organisational specifications a reoccurring problem remains to be solved in the disparity between the level of abstractness of the organisational concepts and the concepts used in the implementation. Organisational specifications (deliberately) abstract from general practice, which creates a need to relate the abstract concepts used in the specification to concrete ones used in the practice. The prevailing solution for this problem is the use of counts-as statements. However, current implementations of counts-as view the relations expressed in this notion as static ontological classifications, which presents problems in dynamic environments where the meaning of abstract concepts can change over time. This limitation has already been solved in complex formal theoretical investigations, but the results of that study are far too complex to make a practical implementation. This paper investigates the limitations of current implementations of counts-as, and proposes a more flexible implementation based on the use of inheritance relations. © Springer-Verlag 2009.
AB - In systems based on organisational specifications a reoccurring problem remains to be solved in the disparity between the level of abstractness of the organisational concepts and the concepts used in the implementation. Organisational specifications (deliberately) abstract from general practice, which creates a need to relate the abstract concepts used in the specification to concrete ones used in the practice. The prevailing solution for this problem is the use of counts-as statements. However, current implementations of counts-as view the relations expressed in this notion as static ontological classifications, which presents problems in dynamic environments where the meaning of abstract concepts can change over time. This limitation has already been solved in complex formal theoretical investigations, but the results of that study are far too complex to make a practical implementation. This paper investigates the limitations of current implementations of counts-as, and proposes a more flexible implementation based on the use of inheritance relations. © Springer-Verlag 2009.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=78650745652&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-10203-5_11
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-10203-5_11
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 116
EP - 131
BT - Engineering Societies in the Agents World X - 10th International Workshop, ESAW 2009, Proceedings
T2 - 10th International Workshop on Engineering Societies in the Agents World X, ESAW 2009
Y2 - 18 November 2009 through 20 November 2009
ER -