- From: Drew McDermott <drew.mcdermott@yale.edu>
- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 10:10:13 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-ws@w3.org
[me]
My conclusion from these speculations is that egocentric
representations are the obvious way to go until someone
comes up with
an important application of neutral representations, or
shows that for
some central special case (such as web services) you can
derive the
egocentric representations for all participants from a
neutral
representation.
...
[Marja Phipps]
Why do the egocentric representations need to be derived from the
neutral representation? It would be easier to abstract the
coarse-grained neutral representations from the more fine-grained
egocentric representations.
Perhaps I am missing your point, but I believe that multiple
abstractions will need to exist in almost any scenario (for the sake
of re-usability and extensibility, if not for the process itself), and
that multiple perspectives are nothing more than scoping the view to
an appropriate subset of the abstractions.
Yes, you did miss my point, which was close to your position as I
understand it. I *agree* that egocentric representations can't in
practice be derived from neutral ones.
-- Drew McDermott
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