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Re: [ontology-summit] Ontology Summit 2015 Theme

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From: "Natale, Bob" <RNATALE@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 17:12:54 +0000
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Agreed ... and the distinction between "Web" and "Internet", esp. in the 
context of this community's excellent work, was the essence of my original post 
on this thread.    (01)

Avanti,
BobN    (02)

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[mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Ring
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2014 11:18 AM
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Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] Ontology Summit 2015 Theme    (03)

Makes sense to me.
Jack
On Nov 8, 2014, at 7:17 AM, Anatoly Levenchuk <ailev@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:    (04)

> One more option is use the same distinction that in Net (TCP/IP,
> information-agnostic) and Web (HTTP, hyper-text and accompanied pictures).
> 
> Neuronet working group rename itself into neuroweb when they accent 
> that not interested merely in transport (internet, other net) but more 
> interested in neuro information (e.g. neurons activity in brain) 
> transmission over any net. And call result (mutual communicating 
> brains and brain particular neuron groups, things from IoT, 
> traditional WWW websites, intellectual software agents, etc.) 
> neuroweb. It means "web that build on neurointerfaces, i.e. 
> brain-machine interaces", not "internet build on TCP/IP interfaces".
> 
> If we will not cover transport (TCP/IP) level, may be better we will 
> call our topic "web of thing", not "internet of thing".
> 
> By the way, "thing" in many ontologies means "everything" and is the 
> root of type hierarchy. Thus WoT for ontologists is equal to WoE ;-) 
> Because relations, processes etc. is also "thing" type, Jack Ring 
> suggestion is also answered ;-)
> 
> Best regards,
> Anatoly
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontology- 
>> summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jack Ring
>> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2014 7:32 AM
>> To: Ontology Summit 2011 discussion
>> Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] Ontology Summit 2015 Theme
>> 
>> All,
>> It may be useful to note that the shift in focus is from what a 
>> system IS
> to
>> what a system DOES.
>> Net-centric emphasized the happenings among the things. This is where 
>> the whole systems community is evolving, particularly toward 
>> intelligent autonomy for coping with non-deterministic situations.
>> Accordingly ontology which focuses on things rather than on 
>> happenings MUST be broadened to include the recitation of the 
>> permissible
> interrelations
>> of the things. Classes vs. Types. Probably we need to seriously 
>> consider Weinberg's perspective that relationships (operators) are things, 
>too.
> Then we
>> can leverage perspective shift.
>> Jack Ring
>> 
>> On Nov 7, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Hans Polzer <hpolzer@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>>> Ram,
>>> 
>>> Just want to support your position. We ran into similar issues with 
>>> the term Net-centric 10 years ago in the DoD context. People thought 
>>> that meant we believe that the network was the center or focus of 
>>> activity. On the contrary, the term net-centric was intended to 
>>> contrast with the traditional "system-centric", or 
>>> "organization/enterprise-centric", or even "capability-centric"
>>> approach. The whole point wasn't about centering or focusing on the 
>>> network, but rather on the interactions that the network enabled 
>>> among systems, enterprises, people, and, yes, things in ways that 
>>> are not possible in the system or enterprise or thing-centered view 
>>> of the world. It's really about enabling interactions among entities 
>>> across system, cultural, organizational, operational/functional 
>>> domain, and, yes, device, boundaries. It's also important to realize 
>>> that these boundaries don't go away - which is a major problem with the IOT 
>meme:
>>> devices don't exist in some vacuum and just decide to interact with 
>>> each other over available network connections. The issue is how to 
>>> accomplish things by leveraging resources that may be 
>>> owned/controlled by some entity on the other side of some boundary. 
>>> It's important to respect and understand the significance of the 
>>> boundary in the context of why one is attempting to cross it and use 
>>> that resource, while at the
> same
>> time discovering the availability of that resource and 
>> facilitating/easing
> the
>> interaction across the boundary.
>>> Semantics and related business model and relationship issues are key 
>>> to accomplishing that goal. Pretending these issues don't exist is a 
>>> sure-fire way to inhibit achievement of the vision that the IOT 
>>> advocates proclaim, even if one confines oneself to the quite narrow 
>>> vision of device/sensor interoperability.
>>> 
>>> Hans
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> [mailto:ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
>>> Sriram, Ram D.
>>> Sent: Friday, November 7, 2014 11:32 AM
>>> To: Ontology Summit 2011 discussion
>>> Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] Ontology Summit 2015 Theme
>>> 
>>> Here is the rationale for the title:
>>> 
>>> Around 4yrs ago we came up with the title Smart Networked Systems 
>>> and Societies (or Cyber-Physical Social Systems). The reason for 
>>> this is explained in the summit proposal. Since IoT and IoE have 
>>> become popular terms, I used IoE with the subtitle SNSS. I used IoE 
>>> instead of IoT, as most of the conferences/workshops I attended 
>>> (recently) on IoT do not deal with social networks at all (I believe 
>>> that IoT's roots started at MIT with the AutoID program). They all 
>>> focus on sensors and sometimes control.  An alternate title could be 
>>> Ontological Foundations for  Cyber-Physical Social
>>> Systems|Internet of Things|Internet of Everything|Smart Networked 
>>> Systems|Systems
>>> and Societies, where I indicates a choice.
>>> 
>>> The enclosed attachment provides further clarification on my 
>>> thoughts on the terminology.
>>> 
>>> Ram
>>> 
>>> Ram D. Sriram
>>> Chief, Software and Systems Division Information Technology 
>>> Laboratory National Institute of Standards and Technology 
>>> Gaithersburg, MD 20899
> Tel.
>>> No: 301-975-3507 ________________________________________
>>> From: ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> <ontology-summit-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on behalf of John F Sowa 
>>> <sowa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Sent: Friday, November 7, 2014 8:51 AM
>>> To: ontology-summit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Subject: Re: [ontology-summit] Ontology Summit 2015 Theme
>>> 
>>> On 7 November 2014 12:29, Mike Dean <mdean@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> I also believe Internet of Things may attract more participation.
>>> 
>>> I agree.  But note the subtitle that was suggested in the telecon:
>>> 
>>>> Toward Smart Networked Systems and Societies
>>> 
>>> The word 'everything' includes people, but the word 'things'
>>> usually excludes them.
>>> 
>>> Just adding one more "thing" to the Internet is trivial.
>>> The really challenging issues are how those things are going to work 
>>> with people and societies of people.
>>> 
>>> One of the most serious issues is what to do about the bad people 
>>> whose goal is to hack into everybody's things.
>>> 
>>> It takes a lot of talent to reverse engineer a smart device.
>>> But it doesn't take much talent to buy an app designed by a smart 
>>> guy turned thief.
>>> 
>>> John
>>> 
>>> 
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