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Re: [ontolog-forum] Ontology of Commands

from [Duane Nickull] [Permanent Link][Original]
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From: Duane Nickull <duane@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 2012年4月27日 23:21:29 +0000
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Coming from the SOA world, I think a lot of it depends on the context (yeah yeah – that was a useful answer, score me 2/10).

The OASIS SOA Reference Model, itself an abstract model, discusses services as an action boundary between a capability and a consumer of that capability. When the service is interacted with (there is an abstract notion of an interaction model), this may result in something behind the service issuing a command or call to action to do the functionality that completes the capability and has a "real world effect". Note that the concept of controlled opacity means that the consumer may not be aware of the exact method or thing that fulfills the capability.

When a service is invoked, a command may be made to "do something". From a pure ontological sense, to me it is a specialized type of "request" since no command is guaranteed to complete. I think most modern software languages use this model with the "try-catch" constructs. Issuing a command and assuming it just happens all the time is sort of a bad paradigm.

If I had to model it from the top, I would see it something like this

Communication -> oral statement -> request with conviction

Then again, it is Friday afternoon. Maybe time to put the ontology thoughts away for a bit.

Duane



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From: <Burkett>, "William [USA]" <burkett_william@xxxxxxx>
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Date: Friday, 27 April, 2012 3:17 PM
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Subject: [ontolog-forum] Ontology of Commands

Hello, Ontologists – I’ve got a question that’s been ping-ponging around my brain lately and thought I’d solicit your input.

What is a “command” in an ontological sense? I can certainly envision a hierarchical part-of structure of commands, but is it accurate to interpret this as a kind of process decomposition (e.g., a Script in the sense of http://www.jfsowa.com/ontology/toplevel.htm)? While a process connotes a “do”, it doesn’t necessary connote “go do”, as a command/imperative would. What is a “command” in the real world?

Context of question: In a SOA-based software development effort, how would ontological principles help with naming/function of services and commands offered through the service interface?

What do you think? (Is that a dangerous question to ask this crowd? ;-))

Bill

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