Working Simulations with a Foundational Ontology

• url: https://www.sfbtr8.spatial-cognition.de/ailog-2010/ailog-downloads/paper12.pdf
• similar: Towards an Ontological Foundation of Discrete Event Simulation
• authors: @robert-porzel @tobias-warden

Highlights

• for more complex models, sequential (Discrete Event Simulation) simulation will exhibit poor runtime performance (compared to Agent Based Simulation)
• " our choice of employing DOLCE as foundational ontology was motivated by the need to enable agents to adapt their conceptualizations and create new ones on the fly because several dedicated DOLCE-modules provide a corresponding framework"
• we have chosen to employ a set of ontological modules which have been designed along with the DOLCE framework, namely:
• the Ontology of Information Objects;
• the Ontology of Plans **
• the Core Software Ontology [29]
• the Descriptions and Situations module [13].