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2006
13 years 6 months ago
Towards an ontology of agency and action From STIT to OntoSTIT+
Abstract. A variety of disciplines and research areas have separately studied the notions of action, agents and agency, but no integrated and well-developed formal ontology for the...
Nicolas Troquard, Robert Trypuz, Laure Vieu
FOIS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Behavior of a Technical Artifact: An Ontological Perspective in Engineering
The term `behavior' is used ubiquitously in engineering. It refers roughly to the way technical artifacts `behave' in a given or hypothetical situation, and plays a pivot...
Stefano Borgo, Massimiliano Carrara, Pieter E. Ver...
FOIS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Against Idiosyncrasy in Ontology Development
The world of ontology development is full of mysteries. Recently, ISO Standard 15926 ("Lifecycle Integration of Process Plant Data Including Oil and Gas Production Facilities&...
Barry Smith
FOIS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Qualities in Possible Worlds
The paper analyzes how and under which assumptions it is possible to compare (in a relationist setting and relatively to qualities) entities living in different worlds. We begin wi...
Stefano Borgo, Claudio Masolo
FOIS
2006
13 years 6 months ago
Simultaneous Events and the "Once-Only" Effect
Abstract. Some events recur, and some happen only once. Galton refers to the latter as "once-only" events [1]. In a first-order logic of events that makes a type-token di...
Haythem O. Ismail