Also, by the way, Matthew, Chris, and others, ARE ontologists. They are also
computer scientists, but aren't nearly all of us? Or system engineers, or
information scientists, librarians, linguists, cognitive scientists, semantic
developers, database modelers, etc. There are philosophical ontologists among
us, but they quickly become computational ontologists. Nearly all of us now
are computational ontologists. (01)
Thanks,
Leo (02)
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Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 6:33 PM
To: Ontology Summit 2012 discussion; 'Chris Partridge'; 'Anatoly Levenchuk';
'Bock, Conrad'; chris.paredis@xxxxxxxxxx; 'David Price'; 'Fredrick A Steiner';
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Henson, (04)
The short answer is that only FOL will give you what you need (and in fact,
some will argue that you need higher extensions for certain things). (05)
I personally think that UML is not yet an (logical) ontology language, mainly
because it doesn't yet have a formal semantics based on logic. The ODM folks
have partially bridged UML and OWL, though the easy stuff was done first. But
at some point, perhaps UML will be. (06)
I would not take the extreme stance of classifying UML as COBOL. COBOL is a
programming language, so to me this is a category error. (07)
In general, I advocate using Semantic Web languages such as OWL and RDF, mainly
because, although you can cannot express the usual FOL you would like to
express and in the way you would like to express it, say as you might in FOL or
Common Logic, that OWL is expressive enough for most of what you need. And
there are a lot of tools available. (08)
That is why most upper ontologies (SUMO, DOLCE, BFO, etc.) have OWL renditions;
the expressivity is reduced, admittedly, but these OWL versions are still very
useful. Truly we want everyone to embrace FOL and higher order type theory,
category theory, etc., but they won't anytime soon. So we guide folks
pragmatically. In practice, we also use logic programming, because we need
rules for most of the reasoning we want to do. Another potential religious war:
Datalog vs. Prolog vs. Answer Set Programming. (09)
Generally, religious wars over MY knowledge representation language and YOUR
knowledge representation language are a waste of time and energy, and lead to
hard feelings and enemy camps. Some KR languages can be criticized for their
embrace of (embodiment of) of ontological theories at the meta-level (example:
the class theory of OWL), but in my experience EVERY such KR language does this
(excepting FOL, which however typically assumes set theory especially when you
get into model theory, and vice versa, etc.) (010)
Some folks will fight to the death because of obnoxious syntax. Others will
fight to the death over a 4-D vs. 3-D perspective. Others will fight to the
death over a realism vs. idealism or conceptualism stance. Others will fight to
the death because they weren't consulted in some group/community decision. (011)
As always, there is much more to add. (012)
Thanks,
Leo (013)
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chris.paredis@xxxxxxxxxx; 'David Price'; 'Fredrick A Steiner'; 'Victor
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Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] INCOSE Ontology Action Group, onto SysML/UML (014)
Chris,
No problem with coming to the dialog late. I have attempted to sort out what
you have added; I see the following: (015)
CP: My view is that UML (as per its specification) belongs in the same camp
as COBOL - that is not to condemn it, merely to classify it. My question
would be whether UML (or add your candidate here) has demonstrated any
ability to clearly show its ontological commitments. I guess Cory would
have made the same point about UMLs shortcomings as this has been discussed
extensively in his workgroup. BTW That is not to say that one cannot use UML
diagramming to do (for example) ISO 15926 modelling. We also use UML
diagrams for IDEAS. I guess a lot of people do the same thing. I'd be very
surprised if you were able to point to anything to do with ontology that
contributed to UML success (which its predecessor did not have) - and enjoy
being surprised. I'd be merely interested in the mathematical points. (016)
HG: Here is a partial response to your question of what UML got right, why
it is not in the COBOL camp, and some notes on why OWL 2 is totally
inadequate as a formal semantics for UML or ISO 15926. More will follow as I
process recent posts. By the way I can see an emerging panel discussion
which takes Matthew's distillation unit as a starting point for discussion
of how to represent in various modeling languages and what ontology
commitment needed. While the example is simple the issues are fundamental
from the ontology point of view and their solution or lack of solution will
have serious impact on modeling language development and how they deal with
ontology. There are a number of participants who understand the issues well.
My biggest disappointment is that the professional ontologists have been
absent from this discussion. (017)
Formal Semantics: UML can be given a formal semantics for its individuals,
classes, and properties in that class models can be embedded into a
reasonable Description Logic ( Berardi, D., Calvanese, D., and De Giacomoa,
G. 2005. "Reasoning on UML class diagrams."). I also have papers embedding
larger fragments of SysML into type theory. Type theory includes DL
constructions and can accommodate 4D semantics. Embedding in logic is
critical in the long run for collaboration, standards, and reasoning. I
understand engineering languages have not born that way and it takes a while
to what their semantics should be or if they are so damaged that cannot be
given a reasonable semantics. (018)
Ontological commitment to Parts: UML has a Part construction which while
having an incomplete semantics is founded on good engineering practice.
Parts are represented not as individuals, but as binary relations. This
means that part instances are pairs of individuals, e.g., <a,b>:R where R is
a part relation. The part arrows in a diagram translate into a typed binary
relation. I will write as write as R(A,B) for an arrow A -<>B in a diagram.
If you unwind the diagrams composition of relations is used. Even in UML
family the diamond headed arrow has additional ontological semantics. I do
not know about the formal specification but implementations enforce some of
the ontological properties that one would expect of parts, e.g. a part
relation cannot be to itself. Also while UML does not have the concept a
functional relation R(A,B) can be replaced or identified with an operation
R^:A -> B. I believe that this is what is needed in many places including
Matthew's distillation unit example. (019)
Metamodeling facility: As several of us have noted a weak ontological
commitment is better than one that is simply wrong. However, UML does
provide a facility in which one can specify ontological semantics with the
meta-modeling facility. Conrad's papers correctly employ that tactic.
Again there are improvements to be made there, but it lets groups specify an
ontological concept such as "system" as a meta-model class. (020)
Here are some notes on why I believe that OWL 2 is totally inadequate for
engineering modeling languages. I think OWL 2 is a major accomplishment and
my comments do not demean it in any way. When I say that I mean that the
language constructions in UML beyond classes and properties extend the
expressiveness of OWL 2. This does not mean that they could not be encoded
in OWL 2 but only in the same sense that they could be encoded as a Turing
Machine tape. (021)
If the professional ontologists talk about this kind of stuff or are
interested in it I hope someone will point me to what they have to say about
for example, impact of choice of logical formalism on identify, time, and
other such concepts, and on ontology typed part relations, on replacing
functional relations with Skolem functions which enables treating a part
more like an individual, etc. (022)
- Henson (023)
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Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 3:12 PM
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Agroskin'; Ron_C_Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx; 'David Leal'; 'Ontology Summit
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Subject: RE: INCOSE Ontology Action Group, onto SysML/UML (024)
Hi Henson, (025)
It sounds as if you have had a lively discussion, and my comments might not
be to the point as I was not involved.
I guess this is an apology in advance. (026)
Chris (027)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: henson graves [mailto:henson.graves@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 01 March 2012 20:51
> To: 'Anatoly Levenchuk'; 'Bock, Conrad'; chris.paredis@xxxxxxxxxx;
> 'David Price'; 'Fredrick A Steiner'; 'Victor Agroskin';
Ron_C_Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx;
> 'David Leal'; 'Ontology Summit 2012 discussion'
> Cc: 'Matthew West'; 'Chris Partridge'
> Subject: RE: INCOSE Ontology Action Group, onto SysML/UML
>
>
> Dear Anatoly,
> You say that a plan future (for engineering modeling languages) on a
> base
of
> current "de facto" legacy is not good even if we label it as a
> pragmatic argument. To suggest that my argument for building on UML
> is equivalent
to
> arguing for building on COBOL is nonsense; you either misconstrue or
> misunderstand what I am saying.
>
> I am saying the UML family satisfies specific criteria that enable one to
> evolve it rather than starting over with something new. If COBOL had the
> demonstrated capability to be used to design a submarine by a
multinational
> enterprise, had good graphics notation, had scalable tools, and had a
formal
> logic-based semantics then COBOL would meet the criteria that we both
> appear to believe necessary. I would be the first one to suggest be
> used
as the
> basis for the future. (028)
I guess I am with Anatoly here. My view is that UML (as per its
specification) belongs in the same camp as COBOL - that is not to condemn
it, merely to classify it.
My question would be whether UML (or add your candidate here) has
demonstrated any ability to clearly show its ontological commitments.
I guess Cory would have made the same point about UMLs shortcomings as this
has been discussed extensively in his workgroup.
BTW That is not to say that one cannot use UML diagramming to do (for
example) ISO 15926 modelling. We also use UML diagrams for IDEAS. I guess a
lot of people do the same thing. (029)
>
> Where to begin: It is always easy to say throw out the old and bring
> the
new. (030)
My motto is a bit different - it is to try and salvage all that is good in
the old and migrate it to the new. (031)
> Indeed sometimes this is the way to go. For this to make sense one
> should articulate where the old is insufficient, what is better, and
> why the old
cannot
> be evolved to the new. (032)
Agreed - absolutely. I have two projects where we are doing exactly that wrt
UML. (033)
>People always use tools (which include
> languages) on the one hand as a magic bullet, and on the other hand as
>something to blame when things go badly. You state that one needs a
>good notation, a formal semantics and a logic paradigm and a fair
>amount of ontology commitments. I agree, but to be clear when I say
>formal semantics
I
> mean logic-based semantics. (034)
logic-based semantics? What had you in mind? And how do you get from there
to the intended interpretation? (035)
>There are other factors that have to do with success such as
>acceptance factors.
>
> Language and Notation: As I am sure that you would agree language
> details matter a great deal in establishing the necessary conditions
> for a
language to
> be successful, but they are not sufficient. I believe that you noted
> that
your
> proposed candidate ISO 15926 did not have a good notation. There are
> deep reasons that have to do with foundations of mathematics and
> ontology why UML is successful where its predecessors where not. (036)
I'd be very surprised if you were able to point to anything to do with
ontology that contributed to UML success (which its predecessor did not
have) - and enjoy being surprised. I'd be merely interested in the
mathematical points. (037)
>Its superiority over its
> successors has been validated empirically by its success in building
>large systems. This is not to say that it doesn't need improvement. It
>is to say
that
> one wants to build on its success, which of course means you have to
> understand why it is successful.
>
> Formal Semantics: You say Formal semantic for such a language is
prerequisite,
> but there are many languages with formal semantics. Which to choose?
Which
> one do you choose and why? The choice of language is a serious
> business,
not
> an academic one. There are perfectly good languages with formal
> (logical) semantics that have been around for a long time that
> conceivably have sufficient expressivity for engineering applications.
> Yet they are not in
common
> use in engineering. One might ask why. The reason is an "engineering
> problem".
> Integration of Ontology with modeling languages: You note that Conrad
Bock
> at al. had papers where they argue for more substantial integration of
ontology
> into product modeling languages and suggest an approach which is to
capture
> patterns such as "Product Model" or "System" as meta-classes at the
> M2 Level in the MOF architecture. This makes good sense to me and I
> agree with this viewpoint. However, this view is perfectly consistent
> with the
building
> on UML argument. One still needs a language which is or is embedded as
> the language of a logic. The meta-classes which describe the
> ontological
patterns
> such as Product Model are simply specializations of the meta-class for
model at
> the M2 level.
>
> Ontological Commitment: We all want ontological commitment, but to what?
> Without a pretty firm understanding of the logic requirements,
> ontology commitments can hardly go beyond terminology. Even
> terminology seems to be difficult. Incorrect ontological commitment
> (in the sense of Nicola) is
very
> dangerous. In my opinion it is better to have a language with weak
ontological
> commitment with a facility to make the ontological commitment extensible.
> As we are aware UML has only very slight ontological commitment beyond
> basic class and property language constructions. It does at least have
> a
concept
> of "part" which represents an ontological commitment.
> Conrad's approach to integration of ontology with modeling languages
> using the OMG MOF framework allows us to start with a modeling
> language family
> (UML) and add ontology patterns as they become sufficiently stable.
Conrad
> points out that UML as spec'd has open semantics, even though many
interpret
> it as closed. To me the ability to specify meta-level semantics for
> use
in
> building models is the essence of a language's openness. I do not know
> for
sure
> if this is the way that Conrad is using the term. As noted UML's
ontological
> commitment is weak, this is a good thing for getting things right in
> the
future.
>
> Modeling-in-the large: You note that one needs a language for
> architecting
and
> modeling-in-the-large, where one assembles architectural work of many
> people. I certainly agree. As I have stated before my opinion is that
solving the
> in-the-large problem is more a methodology issue than a language defect.
> Conrad also points out that a language with open semantics is
> important
for
> assembling work of many people; in that sense a language with open
semantics
> is better suited for "in the large" than others. I have a lot of
> direct
experience
> with UML and SysML both failing and succeeding on large multi-company
> and multi-national product development programs. It is not really too
> hard to understand what caused the failures, but they were not
> primarily defect
with
> the modeling language, even though they have defects. Specifically I
> have
used
> UML to represent the design for an information system that federated
multiple
> large legacy systems. The UML model contained both a user level
> ontology
and
> the transformations between that and the legacy system's interface.
> Many legacy systems have a web-services interface which enables
> interface
without
> any code on the legacy systems being changed.
>
> Acceptance Factors: Large enterprises almost always correctly make
> fairly conservative choices regarding tools and methodology. They
> correctly do
not
> want to add to whatever risk they already incur. This is one place
> where I
agree
> with the sentiment that sociology and politics, and global warming or
> its absence all plays a part in the success or failure of engineering
efforts.
I do not
> believe, however that these aspects are necessary for a specification
which
> tells what to build as opposed to why one wants to build something.
>
> Your Proposed Solution: You propose JSO 15926 as a candidate. Can you
> explain what its formal logic-based semantics is and its ontology
commitments
> are, and what kind of usage and tool support it has, what submarines
> and nuclear reactors have been built with it? Is it sufficient to
> build
autopoietic
> systems?
> Regards,
> Henson
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anatoly Levenchuk [mailto:ailev@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 12:00 PM
> To: 'henson graves'; 'Bock, Conrad'; chris.paredis@xxxxxxxxxx; 'David
Price';
> 'Fredrick A Steiner'; 'Victor Agroskin';
> Ron_C_Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx;
'David
> Leal'; 'Ontology Summit 2012 discussion'
> Cc: 'Matthew West'; Chris Partridge
> Subject: RE: INCOSE Ontology Action Group, onto SysML/UML
>
> Dear Henson,
>
> Argument about huge legacy as a reason to plan future on a base of
> current
"de
> facto" legacy is not good even if we can label it with "pragmatic".
> According this thinking we should bring formal semantics to COBOL and
> stay with this COBOL FORMAL to eternity due to many years of status of
> COBOL as de facto standard of programming.
>
> There are programming-in-the-small (one team, one computer) and
> programming-in-the-large (web programming),
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_in_the_large_and_programming_
> in
> _the
> _small. There are different language patterns in these different kinds
> of programming-in-the-*. I regard programming, modeling and
> ontologizing as different facets of one discipline. Architectural
> modeling (with languages
like
> SysML or ArchiMate) is simply subdiscipline of this general discipline.
> As a systems engineer I need language for arhcitecturing that support
> modeling-in-the-large, where I every day assemble architectural work
> of
many
> people. Formal semantic for such a language is prerequisite, but there
> are
many
> languages with formal semantics. Which to choose?
>
> Most detailed answer I found in a book of Chris Partridge "Business
Objects:
> Re-Engineering for Re-Use"
>
http://www.borosolutions.co.uk/research/content/files/books/BusObj-Printed-
> 2
> 0050531-with-watermark.pdf/at_download/file (while this book has no
> references to UML or ISO 15926 or any other language or software or
> standard). To have scalable for eco-system architecture (or any other)
> description I need abandon substance paradigm (that is very
> intuitive!) to
logic
> paradigm (that is not intuitive at all, this is counterintuitive). In
another word I
> need architectural description not in objects-with-attribute
(object-oriented,
> like UML/SysML) languages but in objects-with-relations
> (fact-oriented,
like
> ArchiMate or ISO 15926) languages.
>
> We have difficulties when tried to introduce ISO 15926 in Russia:
> nobody understand why they need something new in this Big Systems game
> (namely Nuclear Power Plants and Shipbuilding industries). Now we
> start our "crash course" of PLM integration with introducing of "Business
Objects:
> Re-Engineering for Re-Use". After this our clients knows names of
integration
> (in-the-large) problems they have and knows what can be solutions
> (logic paradigm, not formal semantics for substance paradigm) to their
problems.
> Then ISO 15926 study is very easy: people understand what theory
> behind
ISO
> 15926 counterintuitiveness and why we need it.
>
> I consider that we need not only "good notation" and "formal
> semantics",
and
> "logic paradigm" but also a fair amount of documented ontology
commitments
> in an architectural language. I follow intuition of Conrad Bock et al.
> for embedding ontology into architectural language. Also I am not rely
> on UML approach to language (multiple diagrams, attributes) and follow
> intuition
of
> ArchiMate (http://www.opengroup.org/archimate/doc/ts_archimate/) in
> architectural language definition. By the way, one of three intended
audiences
> of ArchiMate is "The academic community, on which we rely for amending
> and improving the language based on state-of-the-art research results
> in the architecture field".
>
> Why ISO 15926? It has a notion of system right out of the box. While
> SysML have no notion of a system, sorry. I support position of Matthew
> West in discussion about system component. There are many nuances
> about it in ISO
> 15926 community but all this nuances support engineering intuitions
> while position of ontologists-non-engineers not supporting it.
> ArchiMate support notion of system indirectly, via Services and
Interfaces. I need more.
>
> There are many other examples of "formal semantics for bad language =
> bad results", e.g. OWL. But this is another story :-)
>
> Best regards,
> Anatoly
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: henson graves [mailto:henson.graves@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 7:30 AM
> > To: 'Anatoly Levenchuk'; 'Bock, Conrad'; chris.paredis@xxxxxxxxxx;
> > 'David Price'; 'Fredrick A Steiner'; 'Victor Agroskin';
> > Ron_C_Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx; 'David Leal'; 'Ontology Summit 2012
> > discussion'
> > Cc: 'Matthew West'
> > Subject: RE: INCOSE Ontology Action Group, onto SysML/UML
> >
> > Dear Anatoly,
> > As I understand it you suggesting is that given the deficiencies of
> > the
> UML
> > family languages regarding scaling to business eco-systems one
> > should
> start
> > over. I have to disagree with you; the disagreement is pragmatic.
> > What I see is that UML and SysML while needing improvement have
> > become defacto standards in many engineering domains. This family
> > of languages
> is
> > slowly getting a formal semantics, they have good tool support, and
> > they
> are
> > being used on a wide scale. Further, OMG the keeper of these
> > language specifications recognizes that the standards need
> > improvement and are beginning to recognize that the languages need
> > a formal semantics. There are several RFPs from OMG related to this.
> > One of them is called
> something
> > like a" precise semantics for composite structure"
> > The difficulty with scaling to eco-systems is not in my opinion a
> language of
> > UML or any other language; is a system engineering methodology defect.
> > One has to develop and enforce some common terminology (ontology?)
> > and some interoperability standards to expect to get consistent
> > integrated architecture. this commonality currently exists in the
> > CAD world and many multinational companies collaborate. Developing
> > some commonality at least where things interface can work for use
> > of UML in an
> eco-system.
> The
> > lack of this kind of hygiene is also responsible for even small
> > projects
> failing.
> >
> > Regards
> > - Henson
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Anatoly Levenchuk [mailto:ailev@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 2:45 PM
> > To: 'Bock, Conrad'; 'henson graves'; chris.paredis@xxxxxxxxxx;
> > 'David
> Price';
> > 'Fredrick A Steiner'; 'Victor Agroskin';
> > Ron_C_Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx; 'David Leal'
> > Cc: Matthew West
> > Subject: RE: INCOSE Ontology Action Group, onto SysML/UML
> >
> > Conrad,
> > Thank you for pointing me to the right links for your works.
> >
> > I appreciate your ideas about adding ontology to product, behavior
> > and project descriptions languages, especially architecture languages.
> >
> > I know that UML 2 and MOF are a big leap to formal semantics in MDA
> > world.
> > But for me this is not enough to enable UML family languages
> > scaling to business eco-systems (beyond one enterprise). What is an
> > object in one project appears as an attribute in another and vice
> > versa (lessons
> learned
> > from work of EPISTLE consortium). There was extended discussion in
> > ISO
> > 15926 community that build on EPISTLE experience.
> >
> > I carefully see development of ArchiMate as a very successful
> fact-oriented
> > architectural language. There are no attributes in ArchiMate, and
> > still
> they
> > have no formal semantics. Sure, they have almost no ontology
> > features. I think that eventually they will have 1) formal
> > semantics, will add 2)
> ontology
> > features (the two things that you provided with UML and OPML) and
> > continue be 3) fact-oriented. I am wonder how many years 1) and 2)
> > will
> take
> > (I guess no less that this was taken by UML).
> >
> > Personally I try to use ISO 15926 as an engineering ontology, but
> > it is
> not a
> > language because has no good notations. My team is thinking about
> > language workbench (http://www.languageworkbenches.net) supporting
> > multiple engineering DSL on a base of ISO 15926 representation of
> system-of-
> > interest, systems in operational environment and enabling systems.
> > Sure, most of this DSL will be established languages for specialty
> > engineering
> but
> > we still need a good architectural language. Your work on OPML give
> > us inspiration to continue think about fact-oriented variant of
> > such a
> language
> > with strong ontology flavor and still usable by engineers.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Anatoly
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Bock, Conrad [mailto:conrad.bock@xxxxxxxx] > Sent:
> > Thursday, February 23, 2012 12:46 AM > To: Anatoly Levenchuk;
> > 'henson graves'; chris.paredis@xxxxxxxxxx; > 'David Price';
> > 'Fredrick A Steiner'; 'Victor Agroskin'; >
> > Ron_C_Williamson@xxxxxxxxxxxx; 'David Leal'
> > > Subject: RE: INCOSE Ontology Action Group, onto SysML/UML > >
> > Anatoly, >
> > > > Conrad Bock at al. had papers where they urge for "more ontology
> > > > in product modeling languages" and suggest alternatives like
> > OPML > > (Ontological Product Modeling Language, > >
> > http://www.cesames.net/fichier.php?id=370) that go beyond UML while
> > >
> > > still not fact-oriented.
> > >
> > > Thanks for referring to this, but the link goes to a paper that
> > > should not be > distributed (see its header), are you able to
> > take it down? The distributable > paper is at >
> > http://www.nist.gov/manuscript-publication-search.cfm?pub_id=822748
> > > and slides at
> > >
> > http://conradbock.org/ontological-product-modeling-short-slides.pdf
> > >
> > > > We found that SysML is not as good to be a basement of overall
> > > MBSE > initiative. We consider many other alternatives that
> > more
> > > fond of > ontology.
> > >
> > > UML 2 introduced significant logical interpretations that are
> > carried over to > SysML. The above paper uses UML. A similar
> > paper on onto behavior > modeling also uses UML
> > (http://dx.doi.org/10.5381/jot.2011.10.1.a3).
> > >
> > > Conrad
> (038)
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