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Dispositions and Roles of Generically Dependent Entities

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  • Haebom

Author

Fabian Neuhaus

Outline

This paper points out a serious Limitations limitation of the BFO 2020 ontology: it does not support the capabilities, tendencies, and roles of commonly dependent persistent entities, such as software and datasets. This limitation hinders the proper representation of the capabilities of computer models and the various roles of datasets during model execution. This paper discusses the inability of BFO 2020 to represent the realizable entities of commonly dependent persistent entities and proposes two approaches to address this issue: (a) the use of defined classes and (b) a proposal to modify BFO to support the capabilities, tendencies, and roles of commonly dependent persistent entities. The latter approach also addresses limitations of BFO 2020, particularly regarding the roles and tendencies of immaterial entities, such as boundaries and locations.

Takeaways, Limitations

Takeaways: Contributes to the advancement of ontology by clarifying the limitations of BFO 2020 and suggesting two improvements to expressing the functions, tendencies, and roles of dependent entities in general. It also suggests ways to improve the representation of immaterial entities.
Limitations: Further validation is needed to determine the effectiveness of the two proposed solutions and their compatibility with the overall BFO 2020 architecture. Analysis of the impact of the proposed changes on interoperability with other ontologies is lacking.
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