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An Introduction To Obo Ontologies
Class-level and instance-level relations
Relations (also called "relationship types" in this guide, or "Properties" in other description logic languages) model types of relationships between entities. Any given relation can be applied in two ways, as "class level" relations, or as "instance level" relations. Class…
Classes model types, not instances
Classes (also called "terms" in this guide) model types of objects or processes in the real world. Note that classes model types, not instances. For example, the Gene Ontology class "mitochondria" models the class of all mitochondria, not any particular mitochondria in some…
Data Model - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Data model
In software engineering, the term data model is used in two related senses. In the sense covered by this article, it is a description of the objects represented by a computer system together with their properties and relationships; these are typically "real world" objects such…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
Shakey ignored the real world
The planning design was monolithic. After the plan was set into action, Shakey largely ignored feedback from the real world. For example, if someone secretly removed the block Shakey was interested in, he would become very confused.
Towards An Ontology Of Software: A Requirements Engineering Perspective
Software, differenlty from laws or recipes, produces practical results in the real world
As Eden and Turner observe [7], a peculiar aspect of software, with respect to other information artifacts such as laws or recipes, is its bridging role between the abstract and the con- crete: despite the fact that it has an abstract nature, it is designed to produce specific…
Where Are The Semantics In The Semantic Web?
Real world semantics
Real world semantics are concerned with the “mapping of objects in the model or computational world onto the real world ... [and] issues that involve human interpretation, or meaning and use of data or information.” [...] The real world semantics correspond to the concepts in…