Re: EIIF concepts attache to DOLCE's upper level

Guido,

Thanks for the mapping.  I had looked at the realtion of the DOLCE
foundation and our concepts a bit but not made any final mapping.  In
addittion to the 5 DOLCE concepts you map our major concepts to there
is also the concept of Event to supplement the idea of "emergencies"
as States.

On the topic of "space" vs. address I'll have more to say in a later
email on the whole "Where" subject area.  We have to use the
distinction between concrete/physical vs. abstract.  I like the
general schema that are used by  Gangemi, A. & Mika, P. as part of the
Ontology Design Patterns (ODP) work which plugs into the DOLCE
foundation ( "Understanding the Semantic Web through Descriptions and
Situations." Proceedings of the DOA/CoopIS/ODBASE 2003 Confederated
International Conferences. LNCS 2888. Springer Verlag, 2003.)

Gangemi and others formalize the relationship between abstract
descriptions (D) and situations (S) in a D-S Design Pattern.  So
address location is just a descriotion of a real location.  But every
situation we might have can have a nunber of (abstract) desriptions.
So Role is an abstract description of some real thing.  A school (a
real thing) may play the role of a care center in an emergency.

 The attached figure is one that I've thrown together quickly to
illustrate some of these ideas.  I have Objects and Events as real
things that participate in Situations adn the corresponding
Descriptions made up of Roles and Tasks.  I've also thrown Location (a
S)  and address (a D) which would be part of the larger pattern.

I like to use ODP as frames to leveragr intuitive conceptualizations
such as we have and make them more expressive and formal in a
stepwise, modular fashion.

Gary Berg-Cross


On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:17 AM, Guido Vetere <gvetere@it.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
> eventually I could merge a sketchy version of DOLCE upper ontology with the
> EIIF uml model (package 7) and this is the result. You will find attached
> the basic DOLCE upper level (actually is a DOLCE Lite plus some concept from
> other modules - see http://wiki.loa-cnr.it/index.php/LoaWiki:Ontologies). If
> you need xmi\uml sources just ask me.
>
> Comments. Except 'Resource', all the EIIF classes I've examined can be
> coarsely accommodated under DOLCE's top level concepts. As for persons and
> their roles, I opted for a multiplicative approach - but this is not
> crucial.
>
> The major attention point is about places, positioning and their
> descriptions. Here is where, in my opinion, a foundational layer like DOLCE
> can help a lot. Basically, DOLCE follows classic ontology by setting a
> distinction among objects (endurants), their positions (spatial qualities)
> and the space-time regions they refer to. Also, it adopts the distinction
> concrete vs. abstract as the difference between things with (resp. w\out)
> physical qualities. Now, in my view, an 'address' is an abstract reference
> to the spatial quality of a static thing, not to be confused with any space
> region, since an address can change without any variation of the spatial
> qualities it refers to.
>
> In general, I think that there are many details of EIIF models that can be
> discussed \ improved in the light of basic ontological distinctions, but I
> didn't find anything dramatically wrong. As for 'Resource' it seems to be
> intended as an heap of 'instruments' for a class of actions related to
> emergency operations (i.e. tools) but also human resources, i.e.
> 'participants' to these actions. I think that a better modeling is needed
> here.
>
> Hope that you find it useful.
>
>
>
>
> Cordiali Saluti, Best Regards,
>
> Guido Vetere
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