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AAAI
1994
14 years 11 months ago
Formalizing Ontological Commitment
Formalizing the ontological commitment of a logical language means offering a way to specify the intended meaning of its vocabulary by constraining the set of its models, giving e...
Nicola Guarino, Massimiliano Carrara, Pierdaniele ...
COOPIS
2002
IEEE
15 years 2 months ago
Formal Ontology Engineering in the DOGMA Approach
This paper presents a specifically database-inspired approach (called DOGMA) for engineering formal ontologies, implemented as shared resources used to express agreed formal semant...
Mustafa Jarrar, Robert Meersman
SYNTHESE
2008
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14 years 9 months ago
Ontological infidelity
Abstract In ethical discourse, it is common practice to distinguish between normative commitments and descriptive commitments. Normative commitments reflect what a person ought to ...
Patrick Dieveney
ATAL
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Reasoning about the dynamics of social behaviour
Formal theories of multi-agent systems require a rich ontology for modelling the dynamics of social behaviour. In this paper a formal analysis of the social behaviour of individua...
Maria Fasli
AIL
1999
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14 years 9 months ago
An Ontology for Commitments in Multiagent Systems
Social commitments have long been recognized as an important concept for multiagent systems. We propose a rich formulation of social commitments that motivates an architecture for ...
Munindar P. Singh