Re: [ontolog-forum] Dispositions and powers for applied ontologies?

[Barry Smith <phismith@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Leo
BFO: Dispositions are central to the Infectious Disease Ontology

http://infectiousdiseaseontology.org/page/Main_Page

and to the various extension ontologies developed on its basis. See also the papers

Albert Goldfain, Barry Smith and Lindsay G. Cowell, “Dispositions and the Infectious Disease Ontology”, in Antony Galton and Riichiro Mizoguchi (eds.), Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference (FOIS 2010), Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2010, 400-413.

Albert Goldfain, Barry Smith and Lindsay G. Cowell, “Towards an Ontological Representation of Resistance: The Case of MRSA”, Journal of Biomedical Informatics, 2011 (Feb.), 44:1, 35-41. PMC293020.

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Obrst, Leo J. <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks, Chris. I’m trying to find actual ontology-modeled dispositions and
> manifestations, etc. I understand about capabiities. Indeed, most
> architectural frameworks have notions of capabilities.  Is there a version
> of MODEM you can share?
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> Thanks,
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> Leo
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> Hi Leo,
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> Capabilities (a subtype of dispositions) are key to Enterprise architectures
> – see e.g. MODAF, MoD Architectural Framework
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MODAF).
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> Dispositions and their counterpart manifestations are in MODEM (a recently
> released ontological foundation for MODAF) and also play a part in DoDAF -
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DODAF (whose first purpose, according to the
> wiki, is ‘Capabilities Integration and Development (JCIDS)’.
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> Chris
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> Subject: [ontolog-forum] Dispositions and powers for applied ontologies?
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> Dispositions and powers (from metaphysics) are sometimes used for scientific
> theories/ontologies. Does anyone actually use these analyses to develop
> applied ontologies? I see it used, e.g., in some analyses of quantum theory.
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> The only paper I know of on this topic is:
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> Arp, R. & Smith, B. (2008). Function, role, and disposition in basic formal
> ontology. In Proceedings of Bio-Ontologies Workshop (ISMB 2008) (pp. 45–48).
> Available from Nature Precedings at:
> http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2008.1941.1.
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> Do you know of others?
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> Thanks,
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> Leo
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