A simonian ontology of the artificial world
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چکیده
The first edition of The Sciences of the Artificial will be forty years in 2009. In this book Herbert Simon (1916-2001) gives the most complete panorama of his man-made world vision. This world can be first described as a set of artefacts, which are the things created by Humans to satisfy their needs. Simon stands that their creation is an outcome of a specific activity he calls design. Therefore the understanding of the artificial world requires moving our focus from artefacts to design. Simon adds that design is a form of problem solving. Thus, the corpus he proposes to observe and explain it can be applied to design, in order to describe the designer’s bounded rationality. Moreover, Simon stands that the study of design is not an object of the natural sciences. It is an object of new sciences he calls precisely the sciences of the artificial. Despite several main results, simonian conceptualization of artificial world was not completely axiomatized. Based on an explanation of Simon’s main entities (artifact, design process, problem solving, bounded rationality), this article proposes an ontology of simonian man-made world. Such a knowledge representation depicts in one single concise view this last world.
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