Ontologies-of-the-Personal
Almost 10 years ago, your host attended FOIS '01, in Ogunquit, Maine. Having been introduced to the world of software ontologies in conversation with Prof. Graeme Hirst of the University of Toronto, your host developed a serious interest in the world of ontologies, on both a personal and a business level.
Over the course of 10 years it is possible to observe that as a subject of serious ontological engineering research, the autonomous human actor has gone from "invisible" in the years 2000 and 2001 to "slightly more visible" now, in 2010. It's an interesting phenomenon how "the human" is, in most software schemes, what can only be described as "the least privileged subject". It is true that If one removes "autonomous" from the formula "autonomous human actor", the "human actor" at least is privileged, but in your host's view, generally only as a captive agent of the organization. . . . read more |
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