Practice-based ontological design for multiplying realities

The Practice of Ontological Analysis

Ontological analysis is increasing in popularity, not just in the area of evaluation of conceptual modeling grammars, but in any real-world modeling situation where semantics are being communicated through the use of grammatical constructs or symbols. However, the critical questions are what is the appropriate reference ontology for my situation and how do I apply that ontology analytically? Th...

Parallel realities of guidelines and practice.

little information on segregation, unestimated heterogeneity, uncertain clinical context and no functional information. Reproducible identification of mutations in well-characterized populations and compelling functional data will be required to strengthen the case for a specific gene. ‘Private’ mutations in single families with atypical phenotypes will be difficult to confirm and will remain o...

Practice-Based Design

An Ontological Basis for Design Methods

This paper presents a view of design methods as process artefacts that can be represented using the function-behaviour-structure (FBS) ontology. This view allows identifying five fundamental approaches to methods: black-box, procedural, artefact-centric, formal and managerial approaches. They all describe method structure but emphasise different aspects of it. Capturing these differences addres...

Ontological Design Patterns for Distributed Frame Hierarchy

With a very important role played by ontologies in many aspects of modern IT, the issues of ontology engineering deserve special attention. One of effective representation architectures for ontologies with dynamic knowledge in distributed environments is distributed frame hierarchy [1]. In this paper we present typical ontological design patterns that appear in connection to that architecture. ...