Towards a Pragmatic Web

Moor, A. de; Keeler, Mary; Richmond, Gary

doi:10.1007/3-540-45483-7_18

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“…We have previously described a testbed context [see 15,17,18] in which the answers to such questions could be experimentally obtained, where tool versions would be proposed as hypothetical solutions and these predictions tested on real tasks to solve. As Peirce says: "the entire meaning of a hypothesis lies in its conditional…”

Section: Realism In the Context For Inquirymentioning

confidence: 99%

Building a Pragmatic Methodology for KR Tool Research and Development

Keeler

Pfeiffer

2006

Conceptual Structures: Inspiration and Application

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Abstract.Reviewing the evidence of CG-tool research and development in conference papers, we find little attention devoted to the issues and institution of scientific methodology, and only vague awareness of how that deficiency impairs progress. To focus attention and improve awareness, we briefly delineate the evolution of C.S. Peirce's theory of inquiry toward Eduard Hovy's general methodology for research, tracing from Peirce's early pragmatism to his "conditional idealism." We claim that methodological theory suggests a pragmatic method for KR research and tool advancement, in the form of an open-ended game somewhat like a child's game of building blocks. The forms of the "blocks" would be propositional rather than physical, with conditional propositions establishing the "dimensions," in place of the physical dimensions of blocks. The constraints would be logical and evidential (factual) rather than geometrical and gravitational (forceful). We challenge the entire Conceptual Structures community to help build a truly pragmatic methodology.

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Section: Realism In the Context For Inquirymentioning

confidence: 99%

Building a Pragmatic Methodology for KR Tool Research and Development

Keeler

Pfeiffer

2006

Conceptual Structures: Inspiration and Application

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“…At the heart of collaboratory improvement is the process of pragmatic inquiry, as described in [6]. Here, the improvement process is seen as a continuous process of hypothesis testing on the role that tools should play in the collaboratory.…”

Section: A Collaboratory Improvement Ontologymentioning

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“…In earlier work, we outlined parts of the solution for collaboratory process improvement. In [6], we described how Conceptual Graphs could be used to improve the pragmatic inquiry process needed for more focused testbed development. In [5], we explained how formally modelling tool contexts could be helpful to this purpose as well.…”

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Improving the Testbed Development Process in Collaboratories

Moor

2004

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Collaboratories are increasingly important as instruments for distributed work. They are highly complex socio-technical systems, in which often advanced ICTs need to be carefully tailored to subtle work practices and organizational structures. However, despite their importance and potential impact, not many successful examples of collaboratories exist. One key obstacle is the complexity of the testbed development process in which the collaboratory is to evolve. In this paper, we propose a method for collaboratory improvement. We show how conceptual graph theory can be used to help improve the testbed development process.

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“…Peirce constructs his entire systems architectonic (including his vast semeiotic) upon his three categories, admittedly "conceptions so very broad and consequently indefinite that they are hard to seize and may be easily overlooked" [CP 6.32]. In his view science is essentially trichotomic: 'First science' in science of discovery, mathematics, has three divisions (finite collections, infinite collections, true continua); 'second science', cenoscopic philosophy 4 , involves three sciences (trichotomic phenomenology, the three normative sciences of theoretical esthetics, practics, and logic as semeiotic, and lastly a scientific metaphysics); 'third science' includes all the physical and psychical special sciences, themselves arranged trichotomically (as descriptive, classificatory or nomonological) All the above trichotomies represent tricategorial relations and not mere triadic groupings. Retrospectively, a trichotomic structure can be seen at the very beginning of science in the mathematics of logic as a kind of mathematical valency theory in consideration of "the simplest mathematics" viewed in light of Peirce reduction thesis 5 .…”

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“…In addition, the ubiquitousness and power of the internet has brought about a substantial increase in the participation of consumers of information through web-based services. Looking creatively to the future, evolving networks seem even to have the potential for catalyzing the growth of new forms of cross-disciplinary research and new models of inter-enterprise collaboration such as are implied by the idea of a Pragmatic Web [3,4,17]. New architectures may be needed in order to help guide the creation of the conditions which would allow for enterprise and, in particular, inter-enterprise endeavors to respond quickly and creatively to difficult challenges and fresh opportunities in a highly volatile environment.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Trikonic Inter-Enterprise Architectonic

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Conceptual Structures: Knowledge Architectures for Smart Applications

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Abstract. There is a need for information, application, and other enterprise architectures which are robust and flexible enough to meet the challenges of today's heterogeneous, rapidly changing, digitally networked environment. Developing advanced architectures may prove essential for achieving emerging research, business, and social goals. Indeed, the profoundly changed landscape suggests that a new paradigm may be needed, an inter-enterprise architectonic (I-EA) informing architectures capable of integrating all key components and processes in an increasingly interconnected environment. To meet this challenge, a systems architectonic is outlined that is based on the trichotomic category theory of Charles S. Peirce. Trikonic Inter-Enterprise Architectonic involves a pragmatic approach to the observation and manipulation of diagrams as models of enterprise and inter-enterprise processes.

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Towards a Pragmatic Web

Cited by 23 publications

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Building a Pragmatic Methodology for KR Tool Research and Development

Building a Pragmatic Methodology for KR Tool Research and Development

Improving the Testbed Development Process in Collaboratories

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