# Assistant conversation 4W6A5U - Canonical URL: - Resource IRI: - Type: assistant conversation - Mode: chat ## Transcript ### 1. User Import the attached PDF documents. [Uploaded PDFs] - Ontological_Foundations_for_Geographic_Information_Science.pdf: Sheaf file #29KB2U - Agglomerations.pdf: Sheaf file #TJ9LXH - Objects_and_Their_Environments.pdf: Sheaf file #CRJTWV - Bodily_Systems_and_Spatial_Functional_Structure.pdf: Sheaf file #YUAJJ5 - Ontology_and_Geographic_Kinds.pdf: Sheaf file #GBQ7Z6 - Drawing_Boundaries.pdf: Sheaf file #EM4B9T - Making_Space.pdf: Sheaf file #BT3GY6 - Ontologies_of_Common_Sense_Physics_and_Mathematics.pdf: Sheaf file #DP29LL - Classifying_Processes.pdf: Sheaf file #P6P4YX - On_Drawing_Lines_on_a_Map.pdf: Sheaf file #C9GSYF ### 2. Assistant tool calls #### Tool call: `document_import` ```json { "action": "stage", "file_ids": [ "29KB2U", "TJ9LXH", "CRJTWV", "YUAJJ5", "GBQ7Z6", "EM4B9T", "BT3GY6", "DP29LL", "P6P4YX", "C9GSYF" ], "name": "Import 10 attached ontology and geography PDFs" } ``` ### 3. 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Assistant tool calls #### Tool call: `document_import` ```json { "action": "extract", "run_id": "NFB4RG" } ``` ### 5. 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Assistant tool calls #### Tool call: `document_import` ```json { "action": "inspect", "run_id": "NFB4RG" } ``` ### 7. 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Assistant tool calls #### Tool call: `document_import` ```json { "action": "import", "run_id": "NFB4RG" } ``` ### 9. 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Assistant tool calls #### Tool call: `document_import` ```json { "action": "metadata", "run_id": "NFB4RG" } ``` ### 11. 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Assistant tool calls #### Tool call: `web_search` ```json { "query": "\"Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science\" Mark Egenhofer Hirtle Smith bibliographic metadata" } ``` #### Tool call: `web_search` ```json { "query": "\"On Drawing Lines on a Map\" Barry Smith bibliographic metadata DOI" } ``` #### Tool call: `web_search` ```json { "query": "\"Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology\" Barry Smith bibliographic metadata" } ``` #### Tool call: `web_search` ```json { "query": "\"Ontologies of common sense, physics and mathematics\" Landgrebe Smith arXiv metadata" } ``` #### Tool call: `web_search` ```json { "query": "\"Drawing Boundaries\" Barry Smith Philosophy of GIS 2019 bibliographic metadata DOI" } ``` #### Tool call: `web_search` ```json { "query": "\"Ontology and Geographic Kinds\" Barry Smith David Mark bibliographic metadata DOI" } ``` #### Tool call: `web_search` ```json { "query": "\"Agglomerations\" Barry Smith 1999 bibliographic metadata DOI" } ``` #### Tool call: `web_search` ```json { "query": "\"Bodily Systems and the Spatial-Functional Structure of the Human Body\" bibliographic metadata" } ``` ### 13. Tool result: web_search WEB SEARCH RESULTS Query: "Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science" Mark Egenhofer Hirtle Smith bibliographic metadata ## Bibliographic metadata - **Chapter title:** *Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science* - **Authors:** David M. Mark; Barry Smith; Max J. Egenhofer; Stephen C. Hirtle - **Document type:** Book chapter - **Book:** *A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science* - **Editors:** Robert B. McMaster and E. Lynn Usery - **Chapter:** 12 - **Pages:** 335–350 - **Publisher:** CRC Press - **Place of publication:** Boca Raton, Florida - **Publication year:** 2004 - **Print ISBN:** 978-0-8493-2728-5; 0-8493-2728-8 - **Electronic ISBN:** 978-1-4200-3833-0 - **DOI:** `10.1201/9781420038330.ch12` - **Alternate DOI form found in newer records:** `10.1201/9781420038330-12` - **Language:** English The chapter appears under the fuller heading **“UCGIS Emerging Research Theme: Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science.”** ([researchgate.net](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289932376_Ontological_Foundations_for_Geographic_Information_Science?utm_source=openai)) ### Recommended citation **APA 7** > Mark, D. M., Smith, B., Egenhofer, M. J., & Hirtle, S. C. (2004). Ontological foundations for geographic information science. In R. B. McMaster & E. L. Usery (Eds.), *A research agenda for geographic information science* (pp. 335–350). CRC Press. https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420038330.ch12 The volume was released on August 30, 2004, although some library and publisher catalogs assign it a **2005 copyright/publication year**. For consistency with the chapter itself and most author bibliographies, **2004** is generally preferable. ([routledge.com](https://www.routledge.com/A-Research-Agenda-for-Geographic-Information-Science/author/p/book/9780849327285?utm_source=openai)) ### BibTeX ```bibtex @incollection{Mark2004Ontological, author = {Mark, David M. and Smith, Barry and Egenhofer, Max J. and Hirtle, Stephen C.}, title = {Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science}, booktitle = {A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science}, editor = {McMaster, Robert B. and Usery, E. Lynn}, chapter = {12}, pages = {335--350}, address = {Boca Raton, FL}, publisher = {CRC Press}, year = {2004}, isbn = {978-0-8493-2728-5}, doi = {10.1201/9781420038330.ch12} } ``` Cited sources: - (PDF) Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289932376_Ontological_Foundations_for_Geographic_Information_Science?utm_source=openai - A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science - 1st Edition - R: https://www.routledge.com/A-Research-Agenda-for-Geographic-Information-Science/author/p/book/9780849327285?utm_source=openai ### 14. Tool result: web_search WEB SEARCH RESULTS Query: "On Drawing Lines on a Map" Barry Smith bibliographic metadata DOI ## Bibliographic metadata - **Author:** Barry Smith - **Title:** “On Drawing Lines on a Map” - **Year:** 1995 - **Publication type:** Conference paper / book chapter - **Book:** *Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS* - **Conference:** COSIT 1995, Semmering, Austria, September 21–23, 1995 - **Editors:** Andrew U. Frank and Werner Kuhn - **Series:** *Lecture Notes in Computer Science* - **Volume:** 988 - **Pages:** 475–484 - **Publisher:** Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg - **DOI:** **10.1007/3-540-60392-1_31** - **Print ISBN:** 978-3-540-60392-4 - **Online ISBN:** 978-3-540-45519-6 The work was published in the 1995 proceedings; Springer records its later online publication in 2005. ([link.springer.com](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-60392-1_31)) ### Formatted citation Smith, B. (1995). On drawing lines on a map. In A. U. Frank & W. Kuhn (Eds.), *Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS* (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 988, pp. 475–484). Springer. **DOI: 10.1007/3-540-60392-1_31**. ([link.springer.com](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-60392-1_31)) ### BibTeX ```bibtex @inproceedings{Smith1995DrawingLines, author = {Smith, Barry}, title = {On Drawing Lines on a Map}, booktitle = {Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS}, editor = {Frank, Andrew U. and Kuhn, Werner}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {988}, pages = {475--484}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Berlin, Heidelberg}, year = {1995}, doi = {10.1007/3-540-60392-1_31}, isbn = {978-3-540-60392-4} } ``` Cited sources: - On drawing lines on a map | Springer Nature Link: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-60392-1_31 ### 15. Tool result: web_search WEB SEARCH RESULTS Query: "Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology" Barry Smith bibliographic metadata ## Bibliographic metadata - **Author:** Barry Smith - **Title:** “Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology” - **Document type:** Book chapter - **Chapter:** 6 - **Book title:** *The Life and Motion of Socio-Economic Units* - **Editors:** Andrew U. Frank, Jonathan Raper, and Jean-Paul Cheylan - **Series:** GISDATA, volume 8 - **Place of publication:** London - **Publisher:** Taylor & Francis - **Publication year:** 2001 - **Pages:** 79–97 - **Language:** English - **Chapter DOI:** `10.1201/9781482268096-14` - **Print ISBN:** `978-0-7484-0845-0` (`0-7484-0845-2`) - **Master e-book ISBN:** `978-0-203-30570-6` (`0-203-30570-1`) - **Adobe e-book ISBN:** `978-0-203-34209-1` (`0-203-34209-7`) ([ontology.buffalo.edu](https://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/napflion.pdf?utm_source=openai)) ### Chicago-style citation Smith, Barry. “Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology.” In *The Life and Motion of Socio-Economic Units*, edited by Andrew U. Frank, Jonathan Raper, and Jean-Paul Cheylan, 79–97. GISDATA 8. London: Taylor & Francis, 2001. DOI: `10.1201/9781482268096-14`. ([philarchive.org](https://philarchive.org/rec/SMIOAT?utm_source=openai)) ### BibTeX ```bibtex @incollection{Smith2001Objects, author = {Smith, Barry}, title = {Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology}, booktitle = {The Life and Motion of Socio-Economic Units}, editor = {Frank, Andrew U. and Raper, Jonathan and Cheylan, Jean-Paul}, series = {GISDATA}, volume = {8}, chapter = {6}, pages = {79--97}, address = {London}, publisher = {Taylor \& Francis}, year = {2001}, isbn = {978-0-7484-0845-0}, doi = {10.1201/9781482268096-14}, language = {English} } ``` **Pagination note:** Some later electronic citations give pages **84–102**, but the original chapter and standard bibliographic record specify **79–97**. ([philarchive.org](https://philarchive.org/archive/SMIOAT?utm_source=openai)) Cited sources: - Microsoft Word - napflion.doc: https://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/articles/napflion.pdf?utm_source=openai - Barry Smith, Objects and their environments: From Aristotle to ecological ontology - PhilArchive: https://philarchive.org/rec/SMIOAT?utm_source=openai - Life and Motion of Socio-Economic Units: https://philarchive.org/archive/SMIOAT?utm_source=openai ### 16. Tool result: web_search WEB SEARCH RESULTS Query: "Ontologies of common sense, physics and mathematics" Landgrebe Smith arXiv metadata ## arXiv metadata - **Title:** *Ontologies of common sense, physics and mathematics* - **Authors:** Jobst Landgrebe; Barry Smith - **arXiv ID:** `2305.01560` - **Version:** `v1` — no later version is listed - **Submitted:** March 23, 2023, 16:59:07 UTC - **Primary category:** History and Philosophy of Physics (`physics.hist-ph`) - **MSC:** `00A79` — General mathematics - **DOI:** `10.48550/arXiv.2305.01560` - **License:** arXiv perpetual non-exclusive distribution license - **File size:** 267 KB - **Journal reference/comments:** None listed on the arXiv record. ([arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01560v1)) **Brief abstract summary:** The paper compares the ontologies underlying common sense, classical physics, modern physics, and mathematics. It argues that classical physics remains connected to commonsense reality, whereas modern physics often provides mathematically formulated measurement results without a corresponding intelligible ontology. ([arxiv.org](https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01560)) ### BibTeX ```bibtex @misc{landgrebe2023ontologies, title = {Ontologies of Common Sense, Physics and Mathematics}, author = {Landgrebe, Jobst and Smith, Barry}, year = {2023}, eprint = {2305.01560}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, primaryClass = {physics.hist-ph}, doi = {10.48550/arXiv.2305.01560} } ``` ### Plain-text citation Landgrebe, Jobst, and Barry Smith. “Ontologies of Common Sense, Physics and Mathematics.” *arXiv* `2305.01560` (2023). DOI: `10.48550/arXiv.2305.01560`. Cited sources: - [2305.01560v1] Ontologies of common sense, physics and mathematics: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01560v1 - [2305.01560] Ontologies of common sense, physics and mathematics: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.01560 ### 17. Tool result: web_search WEB SEARCH RESULTS Query: "Drawing Boundaries" Barry Smith Philosophy of GIS 2019 bibliographic metadata DOI ## Bibliographic metadata - **Author:** Barry Smith - **Chapter title:** “Drawing Boundaries” - **Book:** *The Philosophy of GIS* - **Editor:** Timothy Tambassi - **Series:** Springer Geography - **Publisher:** Springer Nature Switzerland AG - **Place:** Cham, Switzerland - **Year:** 2019 - **Pages:** 137–158 - **Document type:** Book chapter - **Chapter DOI:** **10.1007/978-3-030-16829-2_7** - **Book DOI:** 10.1007/978-3-030-16829-2 - **eBook ISBN:** 978-3-030-16829-2 - **Hardcover ISBN:** 978-3-030-16828-5 ([philarchive.org](https://philarchive.org/rec/SMIDB?utm_source=openai)) **Chicago-style citation:** > Smith, Barry. “Drawing Boundaries.” In *The Philosophy of GIS*, edited by Timothy Tambassi, 137–158. Cham: Springer, 2019. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-16829-2_7. Cited sources: - Barry Smith, Drawing Boundaries - PhilArchive: https://philarchive.org/rec/SMIDB?utm_source=openai ### 18. Tool result: web_search WEB SEARCH RESULTS Query: "Ontology and Geographic Kinds" Barry Smith David Mark bibliographic metadata DOI ## Bibliographic metadata - **Authors:** Barry Smith; David M. Mark - **Title:** “Ontology and Geographic Kinds” - **Publication type:** Conference proceedings paper - **Year:** **1998** - **Book title:** *Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH ’98)* - **Editors:** T. K. Poiker and N. Chrisman - **Pages:** 308–320 - **Conference location:** Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - **Publisher/organization:** International Geographical Union - **DOI:** **No DOI appears to have been assigned.** ([ontology.buffalo.edu](https://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/geography.htm?utm_source=openai)) **Recommended citation:** > Smith, Barry, and David M. Mark. 1998. “Ontology and Geographic Kinds.” In *Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH ’98)*, edited by T. K. Poiker and N. Chrisman, 308–320. International Geographical Union. **Note:** PhilPapers records the year as 1999, but the conference paper itself and most bibliographies identify it as **1998**. ([philpapers.org](https://philpapers.org/rec/MAROAG-2)) ```bibtex @inproceedings{SmithMark1998Ontology, author = {Smith, Barry and Mark, David M.}, title = {Ontology and Geographic Kinds}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH '98)}, editor = {Poiker, T. K. and Chrisman, N.}, pages = {308--320}, year = {1998}, publisher = {International Geographical Union}, address = {Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada} } ``` Cited sources: - : https://ontology.buffalo.edu/smith/geography.htm?utm_source=openai - Barry Smith & David M. Mark, Ontology and Geographic Kinds - PhilPapers: https://philpapers.org/rec/MAROAG-2 ### 19. Tool result: web_search WEB SEARCH RESULTS Query: "Agglomerations" Barry Smith 1999 bibliographic metadata DOI ## Bibliographic metadata - **Author:** Barry Smith - **Title:** “Agglomerations” - **Year:** 1999 - **Editors:** Christian Freksa and David M. Mark - **Book:** *Spatial Information Theory: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science—COSIT ’99* - **Series:** Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 1661 - **Pages:** 267–282 - **Publisher:** Springer, Berlin/Heidelberg - **Chapter DOI:** **10.1007/3-540-48384-5_18** - **Book ISBN:** 978-3-540-66365-2 ([link.springer.com](https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/3-540-48384-5?utm_source=openai)) **Suggested citation:** > Smith, Barry. “Agglomerations.” In *Spatial Information Theory: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science*, edited by Christian Freksa and David M. Mark, 267–282. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1661. Berlin: Springer, 1999. DOI: **10.1007/3-540-48384-5_18**. Cited sources: - Spatial Information Theory. Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science: International Conference COSIT'99 Stade, Germany, August 25-29, 1999 Proceedings | Springer Nature Link: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/3-540-48384-5?utm_source=openai ### 20. Tool result: web_search WEB SEARCH RESULTS Query: "Bodily Systems and the Spatial-Functional Structure of the Human Body" bibliographic metadata ## Bibliographic metadata | Field | Metadata | |---|---| | **Title** | *Bodily Systems and the Spatial-Functional Structure of the Human Body* | | **Authors** | Barry Smith; Katherine Munn; Igor Papakin | | **Publication year** | 2004 | | **Document type** | Book chapter / conference-workshop paper | | **Book title** | *Ontologies in Medicine* | | **Editor** | Domenico M. Pisanelli | | **Series** | *Studies in Health Technology and Informatics* | | **Volume** | 102 | | **Pages** | 39–63 | | **Publisher** | IOS Press | | **Place of publication** | Amsterdam | | **Language** | English | | **DOI** | `10.3233/978-1-60750-945-5-39` | | **PMID** | `15853263` | | **Print ISSN** | `0926-9630` | | **Book ISBN-10** | `1-58603-418-9` | | **Book ISBN-13** | `978-1-58603-418-4` | | **Subjects indexed by PubMed** | Anatomy; Human Body; Humans; Physiology | | **Primary affiliation** | Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany | PubMed confirms the authors, year, series volume, pagination, affiliation, PMID, and indexed subjects. ([pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15853263/?utm_source=openai)) The containing volume’s editor, publisher, series, ISBN, and length are recorded in Google Books and the Open British National Bibliography. ([books.google.bi](https://books.google.bi/books?id=k0X9gljExgQC)) ### Recommended citation **Chicago/standard book-chapter style** > Smith, Barry, Katherine Munn, and Igor Papakin. “Bodily Systems and the Spatial-Functional Structure of the Human Body.” In *Ontologies in Medicine*, edited by Domenico M. Pisanelli, 39–63. Studies in Health Technology and Informatics 102. Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-60750-945-5-39. **Vancouver style** > Smith B, Munn K, Papakin I. Bodily systems and the spatial-functional structure of the human body. In: Pisanelli DM, editor. *Ontologies in Medicine*. Stud Health Technol Inform. 2004;102:39–63. doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-945-5-39. PMID:15853263. ### BibTeX ```bibtex @incollection{SmithMunnPapakin2004, author = {Smith, Barry and Munn, Katherine and Papakin, Igor}, title = {Bodily Systems and the Spatial-Functional Structure of the Human Body}, booktitle = {Ontologies in Medicine}, editor = {Pisanelli, Domenico M.}, series = {Studies in Health Technology and Informatics}, volume = {102}, pages = {39--63}, year = {2004}, publisher = {IOS Press}, address = {Amsterdam}, isbn = {978-1-58603-418-4}, issn = {0926-9630}, doi = {10.3233/978-1-60750-945-5-39}, pmid = {15853263} } ``` Cited sources: - Bodily systems and the spatial-functional structure of the human body - PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15853263/?utm_source=openai - Ontologies in Medicine - Google Livres: https://books.google.bi/books?id=k0X9gljExgQC ### 21. Assistant tool calls #### Tool call: `update_document_metadata` ```json { "authors": [ "David M. Mark", "Barry Smith", "Max J. Egenhofer", "Stephen C. 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Tool result: list_documents FOLDERS - Accounting Algebra & Property Theory - Living Structure, Wholeness & Beauty - Living Structure, Wholeness & Beauty - ontology - Procedural Generation & Co-Creation - Roads, Trails & Movement - Scenario-Based & Behavioral Programming - Technology, Scale & Conviviality - Terrain, Hydrology & Erosion - Water Simulation & Rendering Accounting Algebra & Property Theory (4) - #GANFP9 A Fundamental Duality in the Mathematical and Natural Sciences: From Logic to Biology - 2024 | David Ellerman | 53 pp. Micro abstract: Traces an overlooked subset–partition duality—from logic and category theory through entropy and quantum indefiniteness to selectionist and generative mechanisms in biology. - #NBH3BE Algebraic Models for Accounting Systems - 2010 | Derek J. S. Robinson, José García Pérez, Robert A. Nehmer, Salvador Cruz Rambaud | World Scientific | 255 pp. Micro abstract: Develops accounting theory algebraically: balance vectors as modules, transactions as a group, and whole accounting systems as automata with quotients, homomorphisms, and decision algorithms for audit and control. - #7ESDBJ Economics, Accounting, and Property Theory - 1982 | David P. Ellerman | Lexington Books | 110 pp. Micro abstract: Ellerman's vector-accounting monograph: double entry generalized to property vectors ("accounting without valuation"), grounding a property-theoretic account of appropriation, the firm, and goodwill. - #C8FHDZ On implication and negation in partition logic - 2025 | , David Ellerman | Open Journal of Mathematical Sciences | 9 pp. | doi:10.30538/oms2025.0250 Micro abstract: Develops implication as a refinement-sensitive operation on set partitions, showing how relative negation yields local Boolean cores within the non-distributive algebra of partitions. Living Structure, Wholeness & Beauty (9) - #MH5J8D Beautimeter: Harnessing GPT for Assessing Architectural and Urban Beauty Based on the 15 Properties of Living Structure - 2025 | Bin Jiang | AI | 12 pp. | doi:10.3390/ai6040074 Micro abstract: Presents Beautimeter, a GPT-based tool that scores buildings and urban scenes against Christopher Alexander’s 15 properties of living structure to assess their coherence and beauty. - #XW22YY Generative Codes: The Path to Building Welcoming, Beautiful, Sustainable Neighborhoods - 2005 | Brian Hanson, Christopher Alexander, Maggie Moore Alexander, Michael Mehaffy, Randall Schmidt | Center for Environmental Structure | 21 pp. Micro abstract: Argues that living neighborhoods arise from generative codes: ordered, participatory steps that let buildings and public spaces unfold from local people, land, and context. - #SKRF4C Geography as a Science of the Earth’s Surface Founded on the Third View of Space - 2022 | Bin Jiang | Annals of GIS | 14 pp. | doi:10.1080/19475683.2021.1966502 Micro abstract: Recasts geography around an organismic view of space, using scaling and spatial dependence to understand—and deliberately create—places with greater living structure. - #PXG56P Harmony-Seeking Computations: A Science of Non-Classical Dynamics Based on the Progressive Evolution of the Larger Whole - 2009 | Christopher Alexander | Unpublished manuscript | 66 pp. Micro abstract: Proposes harmony-seeking computation as a creative process that repeatedly strengthens latent centers in a configuration while preserving and deepening the larger whole. - #MJKTBB Living Images: A Recursive Approach to Computing the Structural Beauty of Images or the Livingness of Space - 2023 | Bin Jiang, Chris de Rijke | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | 19 pp. | doi:10.1080/24694452.2023.2178376 Micro abstract: Measures an image’s structural beauty by recursively extracting its nested substructures, revealing a compact hierarchy that also captures visual saliency. - #3XSLTA Structural Beauty: A Structure-Based Computational Approach to Quantifying the Beauty of an Image - 2021 | Bin Jiang, Chris de Rijke | Journal of Imaging | 15 pp. | doi:10.3390/jimaging7050078 Micro abstract: Proposes a quantitative measure of structural beauty based on how many substructures an image contains and how strongly they form a hierarchy across scales. - #ZU8GZV Structure-Preserving Transformations - 2002 | Christopher Alexander | The Nature of Order, Book Two: The Process of Creating Life | 4 pp. | doi:10.2307/j.ctv27ftw6c.5 Micro abstract: Explains structure-preserving transformations: incremental changes that extend the centers and relationships already present in a place rather than weakening its wholeness. - #AULNWD The Nature of Poetic Order - 1998 | Richard P. Gabriel | Warren Wilson Alumni Conference, Mount Holyoke | 99 pp. Micro abstract: Gabriel's slide essay relating poetry's formal order to Christopher Alexander's ideas of generative structure, exploring how constraint and pattern produce living order in creative work. - #BYG3BQ Wholeness as a Hierarchical Graph to Capture the Nature of Space - 2015 | Bin Jiang | International Journal of Geographical Information Science | 14 pp. | doi:10.1080/13658816.2015.1038542 Micro abstract: Models spatial wholeness as a hierarchical graph of mutually reinforcing centers, using PageRank and scaling depth to quantify the life of parts and wholes. ontology (11) - #FQCWKV A Theory of Granular Partitions - 2003 | Barry Smith, Thomas Bittner | Foundations of Geographic Information Science | 33 pp. Micro abstract: Formalizes granular partitions as hierarchical cell systems projected onto reality, combining cognitive selectivity with mereological structure for naming, classifying, mapping, and representation. - #SF7KYZ About the Unreal - 2025 | Barry Smith, Jim Logan, John Beverley | Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO), Episode XI | 14 pp. Micro abstract: Models fiction, blueprints, simulations, and other information about unreal entities through logical combinations of actual classes, avoiding commitments to nonexistent dummy instances. - #CGE2NC Against Fantology - 2005 | Barry Smith | Experience and Analysis | 22 pp. Micro abstract: Critiques the idea that first-order logic reveals reality’s ontology, tracing its atomism, timelessness, Booleanism, and reductionism before proposing a six-category ontology and an enhanced Davidsonian formal language. - #JZG4PM Against Fantology Again - 2016 | Ingvar Johansson | The Theory and Practice of Ontology | 12 pp. Micro abstract: Extends the critique of fantology through default ontologization, arguing that Quine’s canonical notation is incoherent about classes and excludes intentional phenomena and distinct modes of existence. - #7YZU95 Boundaries: An Essay in Mereotopology - 1997 | Barry Smith | The Philosophy of Roderick Chisholm | 32 pp. Micro abstract: Reconstructs and extends the Brentano–Chisholm mereotopology in which dependent, coincident boundaries account for contact and the continuum across points, lines, surfaces, and bodies. - #3TZK66 Capabilities: An Ontology - 2024 | Barry Smith, David Limbaugh, Eric Merrell, John Beverley, Peter M. Koch | Proceedings of the Joint Ontology Workshops (JOWO), Episode X | 14 pp. Micro abstract: Defines a capability as a disposition in whose realization an organism or group has or had an interest, placing capabilities between dispositions and functions in Basic Formal Ontology. - #XYERFR Carving Up Reality - 2004 | Barry Smith | Categories: Historical and Systematic Essays | 14 pp. Micro abstract: Explains how context-sensitive, coarse-grained partitions guide reference and perception while preserving transitive parthood and distinguishing fiat demarcations from boundaries grounded in reality. - #GSLMP8 Diagrams, Documents, and the Meshing of Plans - 2013 | Barry Smith | Visual Learning, vol. 3: How to Do Things with Pictures: Skill, Practice, Performance | 14 pp. Micro abstract: Shows how diagrams and evolving networks of documents mesh plans, obligations, and specialized labor to enable coordinated collective action beyond the limits of linear text. - #M8BQ3S Do Mountains Exist? Towards an Ontology of Landforms - 2003 | Barry Smith, David M. Mark | Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design | 22 pp. Micro abstract: Argues that mountains are object-like in everyday thought but elevation fields in environmental science, motivating a geospatial ontology that supports both perspectives. - #56MWAA Environmental Metaphysics - 2001 | Achille C. Varzi, Barry Smith | Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age: Proceedings of the 22nd International Wittgenstein Symposium | 12 pp. Micro abstract: Develops an ontology of token niches as tenant–medium–retainer structures, using physical and fiat boundaries to explain environmental fit, protection, movement, and niche construction. - #9YMD2E SNAP and SPAN: Towards Dynamic Spatial Ontology - 2004 | Barry Smith, Pierre Grenon | Spatial Cognition & Computation | 35 pp. | doi:10.1207/S15427633SCC0401_5 Micro abstract: BFO's bicategorial framework: SNAP snapshot ontologies of continuants and a SPAN ontology of processes in spacetime, linked by trans-ontological relations to capture change — demonstrated on the ontology of geodynamics. Procedural Generation & Co-Creation (14) - #ABD2B8 Between Tech and Art: The Vegetation of Horizon Zero Dawn - 2018 | Gilbert Sanders, Guerrilla Games | Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2018 | 87 pp. Micro abstract: A production breakdown of Horizon Zero Dawn’s vegetation pipeline, covering global wind simulation, layered foliage motion, coverage-preserving alpha mipmaps, shading, asset LODs, placement, and cascaded shadows. - #4TH488 Explainable AI for Designers: A Human-Centered Perspective on Mixed-Initiative Co-Creation - 2018 | Antonios Liapis, G. Michael Youngblood, Jichen Zhu, Rafael Bidarra, Sebastian Risi | 2018 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games (CIG) | 8 pp. | doi:10.1109/CIG.2018.8490433 Micro abstract: Defines explainable AI for game designers, mapping co-creative systems by their explainability, initiative, and domain overlap so explanations serve concrete design tasks. - #9NQ94D Extracting Physics from Blended Platformer Game Levels - 2020 | Adam Summerville, Anurag Sarkar, Joseph C. Osborn, Sam Snodgrass | Joint Proceedings of the AIIDE 2020 Workshops (CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2862) | 7 pp. Micro abstract: Infers playable jump physics from generated platformer levels, including hybrid physics models for levels that blend the geometry and style of multiple games. - #66Q3W3 Ghost of Tsushima: Procedural Grass - 2021 | Eric Wohllaib, Sucker Punch Productions | Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2021 | 55 pp. Micro abstract: Explains Ghost of Tsushima’s compute-driven grass pipeline, from tiled placement and culling to indirect drawing, cubic Bézier blade geometry, variable LOD, wind animation, and material shading. - #QHMFH2 Improved Alpha Testing Using Hashed Sampling - 2019 | Chris Wyman, Morgan McGuire | IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | 12 pp. | doi:10.1109/TVCG.2017.2739149 Micro abstract: Develops hashed alpha testing, a stable quasi-random thresholding method that preserves distant alpha-mapped foliage and hair while controlling flicker, anisotropy, and interactions with TAA and alpha-to-coverage. - #7GR3AQ Procedural Content Generation through Quality Diversity - 2019 | Ahmed Khalifa, Antonios Liapis, Daniele Gravina, Georgios N. Yannakakis, Julian Togelius | 2019 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG) | 8 pp. | doi:10.1109/CIG.2019.8848053 Micro abstract: Argues for quality-diversity algorithms in procedural generation, producing broad collections of varied, playable content while exposing the design space for exploration and co-creation. - #CQBDX4 Procedural Content Generation via Machine Learning (PCGML) - 2018 | Aaron Isaksen, Adam Summerville, Amy K. Hoover, Andy Nealen, Christoffer Holmgård, Julian Togelius, Matthew Guzdial, Sam Snodgrass | IEEE Transactions on Games | 15 pp. | doi:10.1109/TG.2018.2846639 Micro abstract: Defines and surveys PCGML: generating functional game content directly from models trained on existing examples, with uses spanning creation, completion, repair, critique, and compression. - #EARFEK Procedural Generation of Villages on Arbitrary Terrains - 2012 | Adrien Bernhardt, Adrien Peytavie, Arnaud Emilien, Eric Galin, Marie-Paule Cani | The Visual Computer | 10 pp. | doi:10.1007/s00371-012-0699-7 Micro abstract: Presents a three-stage procedural model that grows terrain-responsive village roads and settlements, partitions land into plausible parcels, and generates slope-adapted buildings with open shape grammars. - #EDURTK Real-Time GPU Tree Generation - 2025 | Bastian Kuth, Carsten Faber, Dominik Baumeister, Max Oberberger, Pirmin Pfeifer, Quirin Meyer, Seyedmasih Tabaei | High-Performance Graphics – Symposium Papers | 10 pp. | doi:10.2312/hpg.20251168 Micro abstract: Introduces a GPU work-graph pipeline that generates, animates, edits, and continuously LODs detailed seasonal trees every frame, replacing gigabytes of baked geometry with kilobytes of parameters. - #GBXEP3 Realistic Modeling and Rendering of Plant Ecosystems - 1998 | Bernd Lintermann, Matt Pharr, Oliver Deussen, Pat Hanrahan, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Radomír Měch | Proceedings of SIGGRAPH ’98 | 12 pp. | doi:10.1145/280814.280898 Micro abstract: Presents a foundational pipeline for authoring plant ecosystems through terrain design, ecological simulation, procedural plant models, approximate instancing, and efficient rendering of billion-primitive scenes. - #BDBBL6 Real‐time Realistic Rendering and Lighting of Forests - 2012 | Eric Bruneton, Fabrice Neyret | Computer Graphics Forum | 11 pp. | doi:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2012.03016.x Micro abstract: Combines detailed z-field trees with terrain shader-maps to render immense forests in real time, preserving sun, sky, canopy, and ground-lighting effects through seamless, scale-consistent transitions. - #PQ68ZH Responsive Real-Time Grass Rendering for General 3D Scenes - 2017 | Klemens Jahrmann, Michael Wimmer | Proceedings of the 2017 Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games (I3D ’17) | 10 pp. | doi:10.1145/3023368.3023380 Micro abstract: Renders every grass blade as responsive tessellated geometry on arbitrary 3D surfaces, with per-blade wind, gravity, and collision physics plus aggressive culling that retains dense fields in real time. - #WZ8DHP Runtime Evaluation of Procedural Content Generation in an Endless Runner Game Using Autonomous Agents - 2026 | Rishabh Kar | arXiv | 25 pp. | doi:10.48550/arXiv.2605.01783 Micro abstract: Integrates procedural generation and validation in an endless runner, using aerial and ground agents to detect blocked or unnavigable content before the player reaches it. - #NRBMD5 Towards Friendly Mixed Initiative Procedural Content Generation: Three Pillars of Industry - 2020 | Frederic Fol Leymarie, Gorm Lai, William Latham | Proceedings of the International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (FDG '20) | 4 pp. | doi:10.1145/3402942.3402946 Micro abstract: Distills three requirements for industry-friendly co-creative PCG tools: preserve designer control, keep feedback loops short, and fit into existing production pipelines. Roads, Trails & Movement (8) - #G3TBNG A Sequential Two-Step Algorithm for Fast Generation of Vehicle Racing Trajectories - 2016 | J. Christian Gerdes, John Subosits, Nitin R. Kapania | Journal of Dynamic Systems, Measurement, and Control | 12 pp. | doi:10.1115/1.4033311 Micro abstract: Generates near-optimal racing trajectories quickly by alternating between a minimum-time speed profile and a convex path update that reduces curvature. - #B6P8L4 Active walker model for the formation of human and animal trail systems - 1997 | Dirk Helbing, Frank Schweitzer, Joachim Keltsch, Péter Molnár | Physical Review E | 34 pp. | doi:10.1103/physreve.56.2527 Micro abstract: Models trail systems as self-organization: walkers reinforce attractive routes while unused traces fade, producing dendritic ant trails and low-detour pedestrian networks. - #V4TQYB Interactive procedural street modeling - 2008 | Eugene Zhang, Gregory Esch, Guoning Chen, Pascal Müller, Peter Wonka | ACM Transactions on Graphics | 10 pp. | doi:10.1145/1360612.1360702 Micro abstract: Lets designers generate and edit large street networks through tensor fields, combining procedural speed with brush-like global and local control over street patterns. - #UYLTYJ Modelling the Evolution of Human Trail Systems - 1997 | Dirk Helbing, Joachim Keltsch, Péter Molnár | Nature | 11 pp. | doi:10.1038/40353 Micro abstract: Shows how pedestrian trails emerge through feedback between destination-seeking walkers, existing paths, and vegetation recovery, yielding a compromise between directness and shared infrastructure. - #GY93FG Mountain Trail Formation and the Active Walker Model - 2009 | J. P. Hague, S. J. Gilks | International Journal of Modern Physics C | 22 pp. | doi:10.1142/S0129183109014059 Micro abstract: Extends the active-walker model to steep terrain, explaining zigzag mountain trails through slope avoidance, directional persistence, and mutual reinforcement by ascending and descending walkers. - #LXV9AT Principles of Trail Layout and Design - 2019 | California State Parks | California State Parks Trails Handbook | 64 pp. Micro abstract: A field-oriented guide to durable trail design, emphasizing curvilinear alignment, natural drainage, sustainable grades, control points, and close reading of landform and soils. - #XDEFZS Procedural Generation of Roads - 2010 | A. Peytavie, E. Galin, E. Guérin, N. Maréchal | Computer Graphics Forum | 10 pp. | doi:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01612.x Micro abstract: Automatically routes and constructs roads with an anisotropic shortest-path method that weighs slope and obstacles while treating surface segments, bridges, and tunnels consistently. - #ARP5U7 The Topography of Minoan Peak Sanctuaries - 1983 | A. A. D. Peatfield | The Annual of the British School at Athens | 8 pp. | doi:10.1017/s0068245400019729 Micro abstract: Argues that Minoan peak sanctuaries were chosen for visibility and proximity to local settlements, forming a beacon-like sacred network whose contraction tracked settlement abandonment rather than cultic collapse. Scenario-Based & Behavioral Programming (8) - #P2W4J5 Adaptive Behavioral Programming - 2011 | David Harel, Nir Eitan | 8 pp. | doi:10.1109/ictai.2011.109 Micro abstract: Adds reinforcements to live sequence charts and BPJ so scenario-based programs can learn from their environment, specifying goals to pursue and scenarios to avoid, with modular learning decompositions. - #XQ5NKX Challenges in Modeling and Unmodeling Emergence, Rule Composition, and Networked Interactions in Complex Reactive Systems - 2023 | Assaf Marron, David Harel, Guy Frankel, Irun Cohen, Smadar Szekely | 8 pp. | doi:10.5220/0011728900003402 Micro abstract: Position paper on modeling emergence, rule composition, and networked interactions in complex reactive systems, introducing "unmodeling"—explicitly excluding entities and behaviors from model execution. - #D4VB7S Distributing Scenario-Based Models: A Replicate-and-Project Approach - 2017 | Assaf Marron, Daniel Gritzner, David Harel, Guy Katz, Joel Greenyer, Shlomi Steinberg | MODELSWARD 2017 | 16 pp. | doi:10.5220/0006271301820195 Micro abstract: Distributes scenario-based models by replicating the full specification on every component and projecting it per component, mimicking centralized behavior while sharply reducing synchronization. - #CSJARA Enhancing Scenario-Based Modeling Using Large Language Models - 2026 | Assaf Marron, David Harel, Guy Katz, Smadar Szekely | Communications in Computer and Information Science | Springer Nature Switzerland | pp. 43-68 | 26 pp. | doi:10.1007/978-3-031-96841-9_3 Micro abstract: Extended methodology for combining LLM chatbots with scenario-based modeling: iterative generation of stand-alone scenarios checked by analysis and human review, framed as a step toward Wise Computing. - #3JCRAD On Augmenting Scenario-Based Modeling with Generative AI - 2024 | Assaf Marron, David Harel, Guy Katz, Smadar Szekely | MODELSWARD 2024 | 12 pp. | doi:10.5220/0012427100003645 Micro abstract: Outlines a structured method for using generative-AI chatbots in modeling: iteratively generate scenario-based model fragments, then analyze and inspect them to converge on an accurate system model. - #QV3BWZ On tracing reactive systems - 2011 | David Harel, Shahar Maoz | Software & Systems Modeling | 22 pp. | doi:10.1007/s10270-010-0151-2 Micro abstract: Introduces model-based trace visualization and exploration for reactive systems, using scenario-based (LSC) abstractions and the Tracer prototype, demonstrated on a PacMan game. - #TDS4H2 Relaxing Synchronization Constraints in Behavioral Programs - 2013 | Amir Kantor, David Harel, Guy Katz | LPAR 2013 (Logic for Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Reasoning) | 17 pp. | doi:10.1007/978-3-642-45221-5_25 Micro abstract: Proposes eager execution for behavioral programs: fast b-threads run ahead when synchronization outcomes are predictable, improving performance, modularity, and distributability, shown in a C++ BP framework. - #M5788P Towards Behavioral Programming in Distributed Architectures - 2015 | Amir Kantor, Assaf Marron, David Harel, Gera Weiss, Guy Katz, Guy Wiener | Science of Computer Programming | 58 pp. | doi:10.1016/j.scico.2014.03.003 Micro abstract: Extends behavioral programming to distributed architectures: b-threads as Erlang processes, eager execution to relax synchronization, and modular distributed execution, demonstrated on simulations and a quadrotor. Technology, Scale & Conviviality (2) - #WYH36B The City as Convivial Centre - 1974 | Leopold Kohr | Tract, no. 12 (Gryphon Press) | 18 pp. Micro abstract: Kohr's essay arguing that cities exist for convivial life rather than economic function, and that human-scale size is what lets a city serve as a centre of leisure, culture, and encounter. - #67REFX The Question Concerning Technology - 1977 | Martin Heidegger | The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays (Harper & Row) | 23 pp. Micro abstract: Heidegger's essay on the essence of technology as Enframing (Gestell), a mode of revealing that reduces the world to standing-reserve, and on art as a possible saving power. Terrain, Hydrology & Erosion (8) - #NV2YRW FastFlow: GPU Acceleration of Flow and Depression Routing for Landscape Simulation - 2024 | Aryamaan Jain, Bernhard Kerbl, Brandon Finley, Guillaume Cordonnier, James Gain | Computer Graphics Forum | 13 pp. | doi:10.1111/cgf.15243 Micro abstract: A GPU framework for routing surface flow through terrain and its depressions fast enough to make erosion, river, lake, and ecosystem simulations interactive. - #2284QZ From features to fingerprints: A general diagnostic framework for anthropogenic geomorphology - 2019 | Damian Evans, Erle C Ellis, Giulia Sofia, Paolo Tarolli, Wenfang Cao | Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment | 34 pp. | doi:10.1177/0309133318825284 Micro abstract: Integrates geomorphology, archaeology, and high-resolution remote sensing into a framework for reading anthropogenic landforms as landscape-scale sociocultural fingerprints. - #96ZMGK Large Scale Terrain Generation from Tectonic Uplift and Fluvial Erosion - 2016 | Adrien Peytavie, Bedrich Benes, Guillaume Cordonnier, Jean Braun, Marie-Paule Cani, Éric Galin, Éric Guérin | Computer Graphics Forum | 11 pp. | doi:10.1111/cgf.12820 Micro abstract: Generates large, controllable mountain terrains by coupling user-painted tectonic uplift with fluvial erosion, then turning the resulting stream graph into detailed landforms. - #K82AS7 Legacy sediment: Definitions and processes of episodically produced anthropogenic sediment - 2013 | L. Allan James | Anthropocene | 11 pp. | doi:10.1016/j.ancene.2013.04.001 Micro abstract: Broadens legacy sediment to episodically produced anthropogenic alluvium and colluvium, and explains its deposition, storage, and remobilization through sediment delivery–transport capacity dynamics. - #DWXKYQ Physically-based analytical erosion for fast terrain generation - 2024 | Boris Gailleton, Guillaume Cordonnier, Petros Tzathas, Philippe Steer | Computer Graphics Forum | 14 pp. | doi:10.1111/cgf.15033 Micro abstract: Turns the stream power law into an interactive terrain tool, replacing thousands of erosion time steps with analytical solutions and a direct control for landscape age. - #MTDKDE Priority-Flood: An Optimal Depression-Filling and Watershed-Labeling Algorithm for Digital Elevation Models - 2014 | Clarence Lehman, David Mulla, Richard Barnes | Computers & Geosciences | 17 pp. | doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2013.04.024 Micro abstract: Introduces Priority-Flood, a simple, optimal algorithm that removes drainage-blocking depressions from elevation models and can also derive watersheds and flow directions. - #AK7NGE Procedural Riverscapes - 2019 | A. Peytavie, B. Benes, E. Galin, E. Guérin, J. Gain, T. Dupont, Y. Cortial | Computer Graphics Forum | 12 pp. | doi:10.1111/cgf.13814 Micro abstract: Builds editable, animated riverscapes from bare terrain by carving hydrologically plausible channels and blending real-time procedural water primitives instead of simulating fluids. - #DMTA8Y Terrain Generation Using Procedural Models Based on Hydrology - 2013 | Adrien Peytavie, Bedřich Beneš, Jean-David Génevaux, Éric Galin, Éric Guérin | ACM Transactions on Graphics | 10 pp. | doi:10.1145/2461912.2461996 Micro abstract: Generates controllable, multiscale terrain from a sketched drainage network, representing rivers and landforms as an editable hierarchy of continuous procedural primitives. Water Simulation & Rendering (12) - #RBS5K6 A Layered Particle-Based Fluid Model for Real-Time Rendering of Water - 2010 | Daniel Scherzer, Florian Bagar, Michael Wimmer | Computer Graphics Forum | 7 pp. | doi:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2010.01734.x Micro abstract: Renders particle-based water and volumetric foam in real time using perspective-aware surface smoothing, physically guided foam formation, and layered depth compositing. - #C4AY2M A Survey of Ocean Simulation and Rendering Techniques in Computer Graphics - 2011 | B. Crespin, D. Ghazanfarpour, E. Darles, J.-C. Gonzato | Computer Graphics Forum | 17 pp. | doi:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2010.01828.x Micro abstract: Surveys ocean graphics from spectral deep-water models to near-shore fluid simulation, then covers the foam, spray, and light transport needed for convincing rendering. - #WZMZGY Advected river textures - 2009 | Dirk Arnold, Stephen Brooks, Tim Burrell | Computer Animation and Virtual Worlds | 11 pp. | doi:10.1002/cav.288 Micro abstract: Combines a 2D Navier–Stokes solver, hydrostatic pressure columns, and advected procedural textures to render detailed, terrain-responsive rivers at real-time frame rates. - #92XRH7 Lagrangian Texture Advection: Preserving both Spectrum and Velocity Field - 2011 | Qizhi Yu, E. Bruneton, F. Neyret, N. Holzschuch | IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | 13 pp. | doi:10.1109/tvcg.2010.263 Micro abstract: Advects fluid textures with deformable particle grids, preserving both the input texture’s visual spectrum and exact motion along the velocity field without cumulative stretching. - #8SERGP Real-time Breaking Waves for Shallow Water Simulations - 2007 | Markus Gross, Matthias Müller-Fischer, Nils Thürey, Simon Schirm | 15th Pacific Conference on Computer Graphics and Applications (Pacific Graphics 2007) | 8 pp. | doi:10.1109/PG.2007.33 Micro abstract: Adds real-time overturning waves to shallow-water heightfields by detecting steep fronts and spawning connected particle sheets that collapse into splashes and foam. - #CWC7H9 Real-time Rendering of Enhanced Shallow Water Fluid Simulations - 2013 | Antonio Susín, Jesús Ojeda | Computers & Graphics | 9 pp. Micro abstract: Builds a real-time rendering pipeline for shallow-water simulations, adding fine surface detail, advected foam, photon-based caustics, and screen-space reflection and refraction. - #MVUJ8Z Real-time Rendering of River Networks - 2010 | Quintijn Hendrickx, Rafael Bidarra, Ruben M. Smelik | Proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH Symposium on Interactive 3D Graphics and Games | 1 pp. Micro abstract: Renders branching river networks efficiently with quadratic Bézier curves, GPU distance fields, and streaming normal maps instead of dense geometry or particle simulation. - #5MGCZ5 Real-time River Representation by Dynamic Control of Data on Waves - 2008 | Makoto Kosugi, Nobuhiko Mukai, Yasuhiro Kato | 4 pp. | doi:10.3169/itej.62.2063 Micro abstract: Dynamically switches river-wave models by viewing distance, preserving nearby reflection and wave detail while retaining wind-driven motion across the full landscape. - #XDESU9 Scalable real‐time animation of rivers - 2009 | Eric Bruneton, Fabrice Neyret, Nicolas Holzschuch, Qizhi Yu | Computer Graphics Forum | 11 pp. | doi:10.1111/j.1467-8659.2009.01363.x Micro abstract: Animates rivers across vast terrains by computing steady flow locally and advecting fine surface detail only where visible, at a screen-space sampling density. - #869NHK Very Fast Real-Time Ocean Wave Foam Rendering Using Halftoning - 2011 | Ian Parberry, Jennifer R. Alford, Mary Yingst | Proceedings of the 6th International North American Conference on Intelligent Games and Simulation (GAMEON-NA) | 7 pp. Micro abstract: Uses a spectrally controlled halftone mask to make texture-based ocean foam dissipate as clumped bubbles that pop, rather than merely fading transparently. - #A2QB8L Water Flow in Portal 2 - 2010 | Alex Vlachos | ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Course: Advances in Real-Time Rendering in 3D Graphics and Games | 54 pp. Micro abstract: Explains Portal 2’s production-friendly water shader: artist-painted flow maps advect layered normal maps, while offsets and noise suppress repetition and pulsing on limited hardware. - #PBM2TC Water surface wavelets - 2018 | Chris Wojtan, Matthias Müller-Fischer, Miles Macklin, Nuttapong Chentanez, Stefan Jeschke, Tomáš Skřivan | ACM Transactions on Graphics | 13 pp. | doi:10.1145/3197517.3201336 Micro abstract: Represents water waves as spatially varying directional amplitudes, enabling vast interactive simulations with fine detail, moving obstacles, solid coupling, and direct artistic control. Unfiled (11) - #E5CLFY Agglomerations - 1999 | Barry Smith | Spatial Information Theory: Cognitive and Computational Foundations of Geographic Information Science | 16 pp. | doi:10.1007/3-540-48384-5_18 - #3CCZ4A Bodily Systems and the Spatial-Functional Structure of the Human Body - 2004 | Barry Smith, Igor Papakin, Katherine Munn | Ontologies in Medicine | 26 pp. | doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-945-5-39 - #9G4F42 CLASSIFYING PROCESSES: AN ESSAY IN APPLIED ONTOLOGY - 2012 | Barry Smith | Ratio | 21 pp. | doi:10.1111/j.1467-9329.2012.00557.x - #KSESR8 Drawing Boundaries - 2019 | Barry Smith | The Philosophy of GIS | 26 pp. | doi:10.1007/978-3-030-16829-2_7 - #KG5TBB Making space: the natural, cultural, cognitive and social niches of human activity - 2021 | Barry Smith | Cognitive Processing | 11 pp. | doi:10.1007/s10339-021-01049-y - #3CV92Z moppe - #B98HVX Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology - 2001 | Barry Smith | The Life and Motion of Socio-Economic Units | 26 pp. | doi:10.1201/9781482268096-14 - #BV47YZ On Drawing Lines on a Map - 1995 | Barry Smith | Spatial Information Theory: A Theoretical Basis for GIS | 10 pp. | doi:10.1007/3-540-60392-1_31 - #D8LRQM Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science - 2004 | Barry Smith, David M. Mark, Max J. Egenhofer, Stephen C. Hirtle | A Research Agenda for Geographic Information Science | 8 pp. | doi:10.1201/9781420038330.ch12 - #GN66WW Ontologies of Common Sense, Physics and Mathematics - 2023 | Barry Smith, Jobst Landgrebe | arXiv | 32 pp. | doi:10.48550/arXiv.2305.01560 - #WYP3G6 Ontology and Geographic Kinds - 1998 | Barry Smith, David M. Mark | Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH ’98) | 7 pp. ### 37. Tool result: get_document DOCUMENT #D8LRQM Title: Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science Outline: - 1 #58CKRW UCGIS Emerging Research Theme: Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science - 1.1 #3D8FDF 1. Introduction - 1.2 #BK9XXQ 2. Objectives - 1.3 #J2V25X 3. The UCGIS Approach - 1.4 #776MLC 4. Importance of the Emerging Theme to National Research Needs/Benefits - 1.5 #GSE8TH 5. Priority Research Areas - 1.5.1 #7GESFK 5.1 Short Term (2-3 years) - 1.5.2 #Q27NKK 5.2 Medium Term (3-5 years) - 1.5.3 #L2LSRC 5.3 Long Term (10 years and beyond) - 1.6 #DEL7AG 6. Example Research Projects - 1.7 #4P924W 7. Possible Showcase Demonstrations - 1.8 #L7U927 8. Bibliography ### 38. Tool result: get_document DOCUMENT #E5CLFY Title: Agglomerations Outline: - 1 #QYE7M3 Agglomerations - 1.1 #U2REY6 1. Introduction - 1.2 #VBD5X2 2. Territorially Demarcated Spatial Objects - 1.3 #66E7X7 3. Mereotopology and Geopolitics - 1.4 #7HXPFT 4. Mereotopological Relations amongst Agglomerations - 1.5 #UGCND5 5. Diasporas and Archipelagos - 1.6 #HQJ7HX 6. Agglomerations and Territorially Demarcated Spatial Objects - 1.7 #9YU69G 7. Ontology and Epistemology - 1.8 #XRBESU 8. Bona Fide vs. Fiat Agglomerations - 1.9 #D9V7TR 9. Races, Nations, Ethnicities - 1.10 #JW7WQU 10. Force Dynamic Agglomerations - 1.11 #YLGG29 11. Conclusion - 1.12 #8N3B6K References ### 39. Tool result: get_document DOCUMENT #B98HVX Title: Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology Outline: - 1 #6BEUQ8 Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology1 - 1.1 #4G3C4J Introduction - 1.2 #BUGEYS 1. The Aristotelian Ontology of Substance and Accident - 1.2.1 #P8NXNZ 1.1 Substances - 1.2.2 #BTFFSK 1.2 Collectives of Substances - 1.2.3 #N6UQ8Y 1.3 Accidents - 1.2.4 #KTUTAY 1.4 Transcategorical Wholes - 1.3 #K5YAVW 2. A Theory of Objects - 1.3.1 #FP6QUL 2.1 Specific Dependence - 1.3.2 #RWYR7Y 2.2 On Being Substantial - 1.3.3 #HGCYPQ 2.3 Boundary-Dependence - 1.3.4 #7682D9 2.4 Substance Defined - 1.4 #R7W8ZS 3. Joints of Reality - 1.4.1 #SHZ5CW 3.1 Categories Deep and Superficial - 1.4.2 #FYFMGX 3.2 The Packaging of Reality - 1.4.3 #33QE7W 3.3 Fiat Objects - 1.4.4 #FCK6QS 3.4 The Aristotelian Ontology of Places - 1.4.5 #BG93C2 3.5 Generic Dependence - 1.5 #XFLXUU 4. Towards a Theory of Environments - 1.5.1 #6VMM4A 4.1 From Substances to Their Settings - 1.5.2 #QLVVUD 4.2 The Theory of Physical-Behavioral Units - 1.5.3 #7AD3KD 4.3 Ontological Properties of Physical-Behavioral Units - 1.5.4 #EYHWKF 4.4 Spatial Shadows of Physical-Behavioral Units - 1.5.5 #YZ6ZSE 4.5 Laws of Physical-Behavioral Units - 1.5.6 #4KHKME 4.6 The Marks of Environments/Niches/Settings10 - 1.5.7 #DLPCC7 4.7 Hierarchical Nesting - 1.5.8 #M2U6L8 4.8 The Systematic Mutual Fittingness of Behavior and Ecological Setting - 1.5.9 #LZYZTH 4.9 Ontological Transcategoriality of Ecological Settings - 1.5.10 #LCVXQ6 4.10 The Ecological Niche - 1.5.11 #BX4AGH 4.11 In Defense of Realism - 1.6 #Q3L4ZD References ### 40. Tool result: get_document DOCUMENT #3CCZ4A Title: Bodily Systems and the Spatial-Functional Structure of the Human Body Outline: - 1 #XDQMN2 Bodily Systems and the Spatial-Functional Structure of the Human Body - 1.1 #3GTB9R 1. Introduction - 1.1.1 #39W7VS 1.1 Incorporating Function - 1.2 #CVF4S5 2. Bodily Systems in the Medical Domain - 1.2.1 #LZ6KD4 2.1 Systems in the FMA - 1.2.2 #3BHHEB 2.2 Partitions of the Body - 1.2.3 #9UT3KZ 2.3 A Brief Summary - 1.3 #W88WGC 3. Defining 'System' - 1.3.1 #MGXDF7 3.1 Systems as Dynamic - 1.3.2 #WFEGGZ 3.2 The Body's Modular Hierarchy - 1.3.3 #8JPM6X 3.3 Relatively Isolated Systems - 1.3.4 #AJU36J 3.4 SNAP and SPAN in Bodily Systems - 1.3.5 #95YMHC 3.5 Elements - 1.3.6 #5S5KVF 3.6 Granular Partitions and System Elements - 1.3.7 #LWLW7G 3.7 Functions in Bodily Systems - 1.3.7.1 #8NSNR6 SNAP - 1.3.7.2 #J4EPE3 SPAN - 1.3.8 #JHMTY4 3.8 The Body as Spatial-Functional Hierarchy - 1.4 #YN2YMY 4. 'Element' Defined - 1.5 #EU2W22 5. Elements, Functions, and Criticality - 1.5.1 #986L3N 5.1 Evaluating Functionings - 1.5.2 #EJ245A 5.2 Critical Functions - 1.5.3 #P4AJMJ 5.3 Degrees of Criticality - 1.5.4 #P8ECVR 5.4 Critical Functions and the Spatial-Functional Hierarchy - 1.6 #YHJXXN 6. How the Body is Demarcated into Bodily Systems - 1.6.1 #AX2FGM 6.1 Bodily Systems as Fiat Objects - 1.6.2 #WGQZDU 6.2 Critical Systems - 1.7 #4AVMTN 7. Conclusion - 1.8 #JPXCVX References ### 41. Tool result: get_document DOCUMENT #WYP3G6 Title: Ontology and Geographic Kinds Outline: - 1 #PL2PE5 Ontology and Geographic Kinds - 1.1 #VGF6LC Abstract - 1.2 #Q29WZR 1 Introduction - 1.2.1 #P7ZD48 1.1 Why Construct an Ontology? - 1.2.2 #NYM9SE 1.2 Specific Marks of Geographic Kinds - 1.2.3 #ELJW23 1.3 Categories versus Sets - 1.2.4 #KFE8RV 1.4 Basic Tools of Ontology: Mereology and Topology - 1.3 #UTTUG4 2 Geographic Categories and the Geometry of Space - 1.4 #P9EPJP 3 Levels of Reality - 1.4.1 #JCGXVV 3.1 Spatial Reality - 1.4.2 #9WXCQN 3.2 The Cognitive Domain - 1.4.3 #78K47Y 3.3 Geographic Reality - 1.5 #DU9SP7 4 Problems with Geographical Extensions of Theories of Categorization Based on the Phenomena of Table-Top Space - 1.6 #Z8DMWN 5 The Realm of Fiats - 1.6.1 #ZP6PH9 5.1 Types of fiat boundary - 1.6.2 #UNX9ZK 5.2 Fiats and vagueness - 1.6.3 #DGVNZ9 5.3 Consensus Fiats - 1.6.4 #W9MRHQ 5.4 Legal fiats - 1.6.5 #5KR22Q 5.5 GIS fiats - 1.6.6 #PY5FSP 5.6 Fiats in the realm of concepts - 1.7 #VHXH9F 6 Conclusions and Future Work - 1.8 #EJFZM2 7 References - 2 #H6MKAV Geographic Information Science and Systems: A case of the wrong metaphor - 2.1 #3QCYCT Abstract - 2.2 #F4S88P Introduction ### 42. Tool result: get_document DOCUMENT #KSESR8 Title: Drawing Boundaries Outline: - 1 #3DCEUM DRAWING BOUNDARIES - 1.1 #T6NYMD Abstract - 1.2 #872NHN Key words - 1.3 #SBMJ63 1. Introduction - 1.4 #TQAQ5K 2. Fiats Perceptual and Ecological - 1.5 #RZMR55 3. The Linguistic Windowing of Reality - 1.6 #7NYA7M 4. Truthmakers as Fiat Objects - 1.7 #DLYV8Q 5. Fiat Boundaries in Feature Spaces - 1.8 #2EGE47 6. Jeffersonian Fiats - 1.9 #Q4YV3L 7. Vagueness, Gluts, and Intervolvements - 1.10 #3RL8XG 8. Scattered Fiat Objects - 1.11 #74TYLN 9. Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries in the Material Realm - 1.12 #9Y2U7G 5. Fiat objects in BFO - 1.13 #LXUMYJ References ### 43. Tool result: get_document DOCUMENT #KG5TBB Title: Making space: the natural, cultural, cognitive and social niches of human activity Outline: - 1 #26C36S Making space: the natural, cultural, cognitive and social niches of human activity - 1.1 #57ZZM6 Abstract - 1.2 #7UTCZB On fiat spatial entities - 1.2.1 #2WHDZR Definitions and examples - 1.2.2 #WNLE9H Fiat spatial entity creation through joining, splitting, and regimenting - 1.3 #HTRUE9 Reinach's ontology of the social act - 1.3.1 #L58ADH The ambiguity of place names - 1.4 #2H5NBU Making spatial conflicts - 1.5 #R9R9KC Fiat spatiotemporal entities - 1.6 #PP8GUU Situated skilled action - 1.7 #ZJ66ZH The visual field and its horizon - 1.8 #3FQ64W Spacemaking in language - 1.8.1 #3GP8S2 How language structures space - 1.9 #KTTJ8B The limits of Artificial Intelligence - 1.10 #SF9HJX Conclusion - 1.11 #KJKW6J Declarations - 1.12 #N8L59K References ### 44. Tool result: get_document DOCUMENT #GN66WW Title: Ontologies of Common Sense, Physics and Mathematics Outline: - 1 #6KMTK8 Ontologies of common sense, physics and mathematics - 1.1 #MFV3NU 1 Ontology of physics - 1.1.1 #JJQFJY 1.1 The nature of theories and models in physics - 1.1.1.1 #ZUFVAD 1.1.1 Classical and modern physics - 1.1.1.2 #ZHEERU 1.1.2 Laws as models - 1.1.1.3 #CAHVQY 1.1.3 The scope of physics - 1.1.1.4 #FR2Q9H 1.1.4 The need for approximations - 1.2 #9BTD4U 2 Physics upper ontology - 1.2.1 #NYRFHH 2.1 System elements - 1.2.2 #XLSYCZ 2.2 Magnitudes - 1.2.2.1 #MSMT2E 2.2.1 Quantification via constants - 1.2.2.2 #KTYY4Y 2.2.2 Quantities and units of measurement - 1.2.3 #NEM8TT 2.3 Models - 1.3 #JGRA8D 3 A mathematics upper ontology - 1.3.1 #E3Q2KL 3.1 The nature of mathematical entities - 1.3.2 #YFJ8WQ 3.2 Mathematics upper ontology - 1.4 #KHZPSR 4 Examples from classical and quantum physics - 1.4.1 #AWHTTL 4.1 The harmonic oscillator - 1.4.1.1 #J9BHWH 4.1.1 Mathematical ontology of the oscillator model - 1.4.1.2 #RTGZW9 4.1.2 Magnitudes in the harmonic oscillator model - 1.4.2 #FJ2UE9 4.2 Entangled photons model - 1.4.2.1 #2LXWR4 4.2.1 Mathematical ontology of the entangled photon model - 1.4.2.2 #MDGYDQ 4.2.2 Magnitudes in the entangled photons model - 1.4.2.3 #W7M2FJ 4.2.3 The meaning of the model - 1.5 #74LR6W 5 The ontological relation of common sense, physics and mathematics - 1.6 #VPLR2G 6 Discussion - 1.7 #86KNF3 References ### 45. Tool result: get_document DOCUMENT #9G4F42 Title: CLASSIFYING PROCESSES: AN ESSAY IN APPLIED ONTOLOGY Outline: - 1 #7G5WHM CLASSIFYING PROCESSES: AN ESSAY IN APPLIED ONTOLOGY - 1.1 #MFJ4C2 Abstract - 1.2 #FQCPUC 1. The Background of Applied Ontology - 1.2.1 #Z3UXU3 1.1 Applied Ontologies in Biology - 1.2.2 #W8VS3D 1.2 The Common Logic Interchange Format and the Web Ontology Language - 1.2.3 #X6GSLT 1.3 The Gene Ontology - 1.2.4 #XK54KK 1.4 The Gene Ontology and the Unification of Science - 1.3 #RRW3TW 2. Basic Formal Ontology - 1.3.1 #PXB8RD 2.1 Continuants and Occurrences - 1.3.2 #2ZKGLG 2.2 Zemach's 'Four Ontologies' - 1.3.3 #D5CVDH 2.3 The Ontological Square - 1.3.4 #2MMME7 2.4 Determinable and Determinate Quality Universals - 1.4 #LVS5LJ 3. Processes in BFO - 1.4.1 #6Y9BSA 3.1 BFO's Treatment of Quality Measurement Data - 1.4.2 #SHA7TB 3.2 Ontological Treatment of Process Measurements - 1.4.3 #SNPG9A 3.3 Why Processes Do Not Change - 1.4.4 #AD3XPJ 3.4 First Approximation to a Solution of the Problem of Process Measurement Data - 1.4.5 #238B59 3.5 Processes as Dependent Entities - 1.5 #WHAR3D 4. Process Profiles - 1.5.1 #3522YH 4.1 Quality Process Profiles - 1.5.2 #5G9USM 4.2 Rate Process Profiles - 1.5.3 #D42PMV 4.3 Cyclical Process Profiles - 1.6 #T82MXT 5. Conclusion: Towards an Ontology of Time Series Graphs - 1.7 #PUUCCL References ### 46. 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Tool result: read DOCUMENT #D8LRQM Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science SECTION #3D8FDF 1. Introduction EXCERPT #TR5BVP p. 0 The ontology of geospatial phenomena is a critical emerging research theme in geographic information science. Recently, the notion and concept of ontology has gained increased attention among researchers in geographic information science, and UCGIS should recognize its important contribution to a fundamental theory of geographic information science. The growth of interest in the topic of geospatial ontology is documented by such activities as: EXCERPT #RVUGXX p. 0 • a very well attended session on ontology at the 2000 AAG meeting in Pittsburgh, organized by Nadine Schuurman and David Mark, chaired by Max Egenhofer, and featuring presentations by Michael Curry, Greg Elmes, Harvey Miller, Schuurman, and Mark, a methodologically-diverse set of authors Σ a recent EURESCO conference on the topic of Geographical Domain and Geographical Information Systems—EuroConference on Ontology and Epistemology for Spatial Data Standards, organized by Stephan Winter in September 2000 ( http://www.geoinfo.tuwien.ac.at/events/Euresco2000/gdgis.htm ); • a special issue of the International Journal of Geographical Information Science currently being edited; • several sessions and papers on ontology at the first GIScience Conference in October 2000 ( http://www.giscience.org ); and • several recent awards by the National Science Foundation and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency in this area. EXCERPT #KL9VRM p. 0 The term ontology has been used in information systems and philosophy in a number of ways. Guarino and Giarretta (1995) have provided a useful discussion of the issues surrounding the use of the term, and we adopt their definitions without further discussion. “Ontology”, written with an upper case letter at the start, is defined as “that branch of philosophy which deals with the nature and the organisation of reality” (Guarino and Giarretta, 1995). An Ontology of the geospatial domain would deal with the totality of geospatial concepts, categories, relations, and processes—and with their interrelations at different resolutions. Spelled with a lower case initial letter, “an ontology” is defined as “a logical theory which gives an explicit, partial account of a conceptualization” (Guarino and Giarretta, 1995). Note that in the first, philosophical sense, Ontology is a mass noun that cannot be pluralized, whereas in the second sense—more common in information science—one can speak of “several ontologies.” In addition, we can distinguish the process of eliciting ontologies from different sorts of human subjects, which means using the standard psychological methods in order to establish the conceptual systems that people use in relation to given domains of objects. This latter aspect of the ontology research domain has implications especially for issues of usability. EXCERPT #EB3DWA p. 0 DOCUMENT #D8LRQM Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science SECTION #BK9XXQ 2. Objectives EXCERPT #EPAXTG p. 1 We propose as a UCGIS research priority the topic of “Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information.” Under this umbrella we unify several interrelated research subfields, each of which deals with different perspectives on geospatial ontologies and their roles in geographic information science. While each of these subfields could be addressed separately 1 , we believe it is important to address ontological research in a unitary, systematic fashion, embracing conceptual issues concerning what would be required to establish an exhaustive ontology of the geospatial domain, issues relating to the choice of appropriate methods for formalizing ontologies, and considerations regarding the design of ontology-driven information systems. This integrated approach is necessary, because there is a strong dependency between the methods used to specify an ontology, and the conceptual richness, robustness and tractability of the ontology itself. Likewise, information system implementations are needed as testbeds of the usefulness of every aspect of an exhaustive ontology of the geospatial domain. None of the current UCGIS research priorities provides such an integrative perspective, and therefore the topic of “Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science” is unique. DOCUMENT #D8LRQM Ontological Foundations for Geographic Information Science SECTION #GSE8TH 5. Priority Research Areas EXCERPT #FGUFAA p. 2 As a branch of philosophy, Ontology studies the constituents of reality. Ontology, as applied to a given domain, seeks to describe in formal terms the constituents of reality within that domain. Ontology can serve as a valuable support for clarity in description and explanation of a sort that is conducive to building bridges between one domain and another. Information scientists have extended the philosophical meaning of Ontology. They use the term ontology to refer to canonical descriptions of knowledge domains, or to associated classificatory theories. In such fields as artificial intelligence and computer science, ontology typically refers to a vocabulary or classification system that describes the concepts operating in a given domain through definitions that are sufficiently detailed for capturing the semantics of that domain. GIS software engineers who rely on appropriate ontologies can build systems that are tailored to the users' needs. EXCERPT #JL572Z p. 2 Serious research on ontology of geographic phenomena has begun only recently, and thus far the work has been directed primarily toward the formal modeling of the geospatial world as this is experienced and conceptualized by non-experts. An exhaustive ontology of the geospatial domain would be vast, and might never be finalized. More reachable objectives would be to develop a complete upper level ontology for the geospatial domain, and to develop in stepwise fashion detailed ontologies for subdomains that are consistent with the upper level ontology. Subdomains of highest priority would be the principle domains of GIS application, and areas of environmental and social science where GIS has been under-utilized due to ontological mismatches between these scientific fields and GIS software. EXCERPT #WXCW78 p. 2 EXCERPT #9DLL8E p. 3 Since the geospatial sciences deal with phenomena across a variety of scales, a common ontology for the geospatial domain will by definition provide an improved understanding not only of common-sense spatial reasoning and but also of scientific and computational models of geospatial phenomena. Above all it will provide a framework within which all of these types of representation of geospatial phenomena can be integrated. EXCERPT #KAWKU8 p. 3 The Ontology of the geospatial domain will define geographic objects, fields, spatial relations, processes, and their categories. It will be accompanied by translation algorithms, mapping the ontology into the basic data models and representations necessary for scientific computing about geographic phenomena. The ontology will be formalized through axioms and definitions of classes, relations, and functions. EXCERPT #FP6YNV p. 3 A need for formalized ontological frameworks for data integration has been recognized by many fields that specialize in the gathering and exchange of information. However, this need has received much less attention from scientists themselves. This is because, within each discipline or field of study, a shared conceptual system is normally ensured through the education and training of the scientists involved. Where cross-disciplinary communication and collaboration is required, however, ontology provides the needed common platform. Since the environmental and social sciences study phenomena that occur or act over geographic space, a formal ontology of geospatial phenomena is essential for interoperable geospatial science. EXCERPT #36EMC2 p. 3 We have distinguished three types of ontology research, which must be regarded as complementary and mutually constraining: EXCERPT #JH3ZPJ p. 3 • Research in Ontology, which attempts to establish the types of objects, processes and relations, at different levels of scale and granularity, from which the geospatial domain is constituted. The methods employed here should be maximally opportunistic, involving (1) interaction with domain scientists designed to establish the sorts of entities populating their respective domains and (2) the development of formal methods for integrating these populations of entities, for example in terms of part-whole and granularity relations. At the same time, Ontological research should be directed towards clarification of the relations between human knowledge, beliefs and representations on the one hand, the models and representations embedded in our data systems on the other hand, and the real world of objects beyond. • Research in eliciting geo-ontologies from human subjects (both experts and non-experts) using standard psychological methods (of importance in connection with usability issues and with issues of observation, error, data-gathering and data-formulation). • Research in method and tools for describing, accessing, comparing, and integrating geo-ontologies. This area falls into the standard information science mode, which means specifying the conceptualizations underlying different types of GISystems software and associated datasets for purposes of interoperability and cross-system translation. EXCERPT #UF9VH5 p. 3 The three types of ontological research are mutually constraining in virtue of the fact that we want our information systems to relate to the same real-world domain of objects as is captured in our scientific theories and in the world of everyday action and perception. The underlying complexity of this research theme is thus several orders higher than standard ontological research in information systems, which relates exclusively to the types of closed world models specified in database design and characteristically involves simplifications motivated by specific shortterm pragmatic goals. Geo-ontologies take the real world as their objects, a world of constant change, of multifarious causal processes at different levels of scale and granularity, a world in which, when seen from the human perspective, uncertainty, vagueness and imprecision are paramount. EXCERPT #NX5PZS p. 3 SECTION #7GESFK 5.1 Short Term (2-3 years) EXCERPT #WGLTMM p. 4 All UCGIS ontological research will involve formalization, and progress will be maximized if common formal-ontological tools and concepts are employed. A key short term priority for research in this area thus is to develop and distribute an upper level ontology for geospatial phenomena that can be used as a common framework to ensure that independently developed subdomain ontologies will be consistent and interoperable. An early agreement on a formal language for specifying the ontology will contribute substantially to the potential to achieve longer-term goals. Since consistency and interoperability with broader ontology projects is highly desirable, researchers in geospatial ontology should form links with general ontology projects such as the IEEE Standard Upper Ontology (SUO) Study Group ( http://ltsc.ieee.org/suo/index.html ). One medium-term project would be to study the family of formal mereotopological theories, establish their properties, and refine the best one for use in ontologies of the geospatial domain. SECTION #Q27NKK 5.2 Medium Term (3-5 years) EXCERPT #QX5L78 p. 4 Ontology-based wayfinding systems and agents (Sorrows and Hirtle, 1999; Raubal, 1997) will provide a natural bridge between the data structures of a geographic information system and the users of the system. The conceptual hierarchy of a user is in many cases only partially related to structures used by an information system, which can result in abstruse or confusing directions. An important medium term goal would be to provide a better understanding of the cognition of geographic concepts via the formalization of an ontology of naive geographical concepts (see Mark and Smith's recent work). We are close to making good progress in this area, but need additional formalizations to develop testable hypotheses. EXCERPT #6EJAY6 p. 4 Another important medium-term project would research on the ontology of vagueness, following up on preliminary work on geographic objects with indeterminate boundaries reported in the book edited by Burrough and Frank (1996). EXCERPT #ZBY2AW p. 4 Another medium-term project is the ontology of scale, and especially the issue of how to integrate spatial ontologies at different levels of granularity or resolution (Stell 2000). Scale is another of the original UCGIS research priorities or challenges. EXCERPT #YFSFHL p. 4 Specification of the ontology of change and geographic process would be another medium-term priority; geographic objects such as lakes, rivers, and storm fronts have very special dynamic properties not studied in standard ontologies. EXCERPT #SJCUY5 p. 4 Yet another project would attempt to answer questions regarding the degree to which folk geographic concepts, such as clouds and storms, fronts and air masses, which are conceptualized as objects in folk and common-sense weather models, are useful, or even indispensable, in scientific models of atmospheric behavior. EXCERPT #HRQAHN p. 4 These ontological studies will need to be complemented by the development of appropriate methods and tools to describe ontologies. Canonical languages for geo-ontologies are a medium-term project. Likewise, the development of computational methods to compare ontologies and to integrate them into web-based search engines are medium-term research projects. EXCERPT #R94SR7 p. 4 SECTION #L2LSRC 5.3 Long Term (10 years and beyond) EXCERPT #KWJUTP p. 5 The long term goal is to complete the description and formalization of the ontology of all phenomena at geographic scales. This needs to go hand-in-hand with the development of appropriate mechanisms that support the integration of geo-ontologies at different levels of explicitness, and the development of guidelines for the resolution of conflicts in geo-ontologies. ### 49. Tool result: read DOCUMENT #E5CLFY Agglomerations SECTION #U2REY6 1. Introduction EXCERPT #LSNFPH p. 0 Consider aggregates, for example the aggregate of molecules in your cup of coffee, or the aggregate of Romanesque cathedrals. These are wholes made up of simultaneously existing entities, hereafter called members or participants, which stand to each other in determinate relations of similarity. Some aggregates are of table-top scale; they belong to the domain of our everyday human actions and perceptions. Others, however, are such that their members are widely scattered through space, in such a way that perceiving them—where this is possible at all—would require a succession of observations across a plurality of spatial regions. An agglomeration is an aggregate whose members are activities, objects, features, competencies or conditions that are dispersed through space in this sense. They are aggregates of geographic scale. The aggregate of all currently existing token instances of the species owl is an agglomeration, but so also are populations and colonies within a given species, for example a plague of locusts, the Peruvian Shining Path, the Bavarian Christian Social Union. EXCERPT #NB7GAT p. 0 Agglomerations have a principle of unity (a principle of connectedness or mutual relevance of their members) by which they are held together as agglomerations and distinguished from other agglomerations. (For a formal treatment of the principles of relevant mereology governing agglomerations see Smith 1991.) The principle of unity of a biological kind might be one of common DNA. The principle of unity of an organization might be a hierarchical structure of authority with a single head. Other principles of unity are exhibited by those types of agglomerations we call avatars (Damuth 1985), tribes , demes , colonies , communities , corporations , and so on. EXCERPT #FGPWC9 p. 1 The domain of agglomerations includes also populations of beliefs, representations and other memetic entities on the part of human beings, populations of speech acts of a given language or dialect, populations of common religious affiliation or voting preference, and other large-scale agglomerative phenomena depicted in language and dialect atlases, atlases of religions, electoral atlases, historical atlases, DNA atlases, and so on. EXCERPT #DX3STE p. 1 Agglomerations are wholes whose parts are concrete realizations of given activities, objects, features, competencies or conditions at given times . Thus our perspective in what follows will be primarily synchronic: we shall examine relations between agglomerations obtaining at a time. But agglomerations will also have histories; they may grow and develop and have a beginning and an end. Occasionally, therefore, we shall need to consider agglomerations also from the diachronic perspective. Agglomerations are, ontologically speaking, spatial objects . Their lives or histories are spatio-temporal objects . Many of the types of agglomerations which here concern us are hosted by determinate but typically changing aggregates of human carriers and they are analogous in this respect to populations of bacteria or viruses. Hence they admit also of being studied by diachronic methods, of a sort familiar from epidemiology and evolutionary biology. EXCERPT #5UN3C9 p. 1 Agglomerations may evolve. They may merge and split, and they may spawn further agglomerations. A theory of agglomerations will thus need to make room for principles of identity which are responsible for the continued existence of agglomerations as identical through changes of different sorts, including spatial displacements. DOCUMENT #E5CLFY Agglomerations SECTION #9YU69G 7. Ontology and Epistemology EXCERPT #DCKKM4 p. 10 There is a deeply rooted tendency to conceptualize even widely scattered and rapidly changing agglomerations as compact, stable, homogeneous, thing-like entities, and a no less deeply rooted tendency to conceive the agglomerations in which we humans are involved in terms of simple binary relations (of us and them , of Hüben and Drüben , of the Hegemonic Colonizing Self and the Indigenous Colonized Other ). This is in part the reflection of quite general constraints on the degree of complication we can hold in our minds for purposes of comparison. It is in part because of the central role of the logical opposition between positive and negative in human thinking. It is connected also with features of our moral and emotional economy and also with general structural features of co-operative behaviour (for example with the decision-theoretic instability of three-sided conflicts in politics, war, and other spheres). Lakoffians would talk at this point of 'metaphors' or of 'image schemata'. Here, however, we are interested not in the cognition of agglomerations or of other spatial objects for its own sake, but rather in the ontology of the geosocial world, and in the ways in which cognitive factors may bring about real effects in social reality. The real effects are most manifest in the evolution of those cultural artifacts we call boundaries, including national boundaries, which are real (but not always physical) parts of the geosocial world. Interestingly such boundaries can be non-connected, as in the case of Indonesia or Denmark (or the United States, or Russia), whose boundaries comprehend into unities spatially separated parts. EXCERPT #4WL87F p. 10 Clearly, boundaries alone do not enjoy such integrative power. Rather, it is the underlying beliefs and associated practices which are of crucial importance, as is seen in the fact that analogous real effects, for example the formation of in- and out-groups, can be observed even in the absence of strict territorial demarcations (Schelling 1978). Consider not only the histories of the Jewish, Armenian or Kurdish peoples, which have preserved their identity in spite of spatial separation. Consider also the histories of Poland and Israel, which have been able to preserve their identities even in spite of temporal gaps in the existence of relevant underlying territory. EXCERPT #Z67Q8N p. 10 The real transformative effects of agglomerations of beliefs take hold only under certain very special conditions, determined by political, legal, historical, military and ethnic factors which will vary from case to case. Where they do take effect, however, they may not only transform a plurality of agglomerations into a single unit but also, contrariwise, they may bring an existing agglomerative unity to an end. Consider, again, the way in which the several American colonies were combined together into a single federation, or the way in which old Yugoslavia has been broken down, both at the level of agglomerative groups and at the territorial level, into constituent parts. EXCERPT #YYDQ56 p. 10 Given the existence of such real transformations, it follows that the simplifications in our diagrams above harbour a hitherto unnoticed ontological insight: both agglomerations and territorially demarcated spatial objects may be ontologically unified even in spite of spatial separation, because there exist agglomerations of pertinent beliefs on the part of human subjects which hold them together. Such beliefs may be true or false. Some belief-agglomerations are marked by a special sort of non-accidental truth: the Polish aristocracy exists as a unitary target-agglomeration in part precisely because of widespread beliefs to this effect, beliefs which are ipso facto true. DOCUMENT #E5CLFY Agglomerations SECTION #YLGG29 11. Conclusion EXCERPT #JUBULP p. 13 There are some, for example anthropologists of a postmodern stripe, who will argue that any talk of what we are here calling agglomerations as unities and as identities through time is illegitimate. There are, they will claim, no 'societies' or 'cultures', because the human world is a seamless fabric of zones of interpenetration and interinfluence that is marked by endless hybridization. The world of agglomerations does indeed exhibit a lower degree of mereotopological tidiness than do the worlds of sovereign political objects and of political and administrative and ecclesiastical subdivisions. It is a world marked commonly by continuous rather than discrete transitions, by border zones rather than border lines, a world that is pervasively subject to interpenetrating diasporas and archipelagos. EXCERPT #Z5QEHL p. 13 But we should not draw the wrong conclusions from all of this. For consider the analogous argument to the effect that, because (1) two opposing armies are such as to interpenetrate spatially at points of conflict, are divided by constantly shifting border zones and harbour pockets of fifth columnists and deserters, then it follows that (2) there are not two opposing armies at all, but rather a single undifferentiated mass that has been subjected to a ‘metaphorical’ narrative of ‘oppositional discourse’. The correct response to such confusions is not to abandon the task of understanding geosocial phenomena in a genuinely realist fashion; it is to develop an ontological theory of societies, cultures, populations, languages, religions, and armies, which will do justice to these phenomena in their full agglomerative complexity. EXCERPT #FCX9RD p. 14 Acknowledgments: This paper is a part of Research Initiative 21, “Formal Models of Common-Sense Geographic Worlds,” of the National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis, supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (SBR-8810917); support by NSF and by the University at Buffalo Multidisciplinary Pilot Program is gratefully acknowledged. ### 50. Tool result: read DOCUMENT #B98HVX Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology SECTION #4G3C4J Introduction EXCERPT #SNLXR8 p. 0 What follows is a contribution to the theory of space and of spatial objects. It takes as its starting point the philosophical subfield of ontology, which can be defined as the science of what is: of the various types and categories of objects and relations in all realms of being. More specifically, it begins with ideas set forth by Aristotle in his Categories and Metaphysics , two works which constitute the first great contributions to ontological science. Because Aristotle's ontological ideas were developed prior to the scientific discoveries of the modern era, he approached the objects and relations of everyday reality with the same ontological seriousness with which scientists today approach the objects of physics. We shall seek to show that what Aristotle has to say about these commonsensical objects and relations can, when translated into more formal terms, be of use also to contemporary ontologists. More precisely, we shall argue that his ideas can contribute to the development of a rigorous theory of those social and institutional components of everyday reality – the settings of human behavior – which are the subject of this volume. EXCERPT #9RDAL3 p. 0 When modern-day philosophers turn their attentions to ontology they begin not with Aristotle but rather, in almost every case, with a set-theoretic ontology of the sort which is employed in standard model-theoretic semantics. Set-theoretic ontology sees the world in atomistic terms: it postulates a lowest level of atoms or urelements, from out of which successively higher levels of set-theoretic objects are then constructed. The approach to ontology to be defended here, in contrast, starts not with atoms but with the mesoscopic objects by which we are surrounded in our normal day-to-day EXCERPT #6ZVR5X p. 0 1 My thanks go to the NCGIA (Buffalo) for helpful support, and to Andrew Frank and Dan Montello for helpful comments. EXCERPT #XWMKMF p. 0 EXCERPT #QTCMC2 p. 1 activities. It sees the world not as being made up of concrete individual atoms, on the one hand, and abstract (1- and n-place) ‘properties’ or ‘attributes’, on the other. Rather, the world is made of you and me, of your headaches and my sneezes, of your battles and my wars. EXCERPT #C5ASJK p. 1 The essay is divided into four main parts: the first sketches the bare bones of Aristotle’s own ontology, an ontology of substances (objects, things, persons), on the one hand, and accidents (events, qualities, actions) on the other. Part 2 is a more technical section devoted to the semi-formal divisions of some of the concepts at the heart of Aristotle’s theory. 2 Part 3 extends the ontology to the realm of what is extended in space, and includes in particular a sketch of Aristotle’s own theory of places, and the fourth and final part goes beyond Aristotle to give an account of the ontology of the environments which constitute the everyday world of human action. DOCUMENT #B98HVX Objects and Their Environments: From Aristotle to Ecological Ontology SECTION #XFLXUU 4. Towards a Theory of Environments SECTION #6VMM4A 4.1 From Substances to Their Settings EXCERPT #YCE9PJ p. 12 There are a number of strange consequences of Aristotle's theory of place. For example, it follows from the theory that proper substantial parts of bodies (for example: your leg) are not, in fact, in place – but only potentially so: they will actually be in place only if they are transformed into substances in their own right. Moreover, Aristotle associates his general ontology of place with the doctrine of natural places, according to which bodies fall down to the floor when dropped because their 'earthy' nature makes them seek the ground as resting place. The importance of his general ontology of place for our purposes here turns on the fact that it points the way to a theory of environments, of the settings or niches in which substances, and especially human and non-human animals, characteristically and for the most part, exist. EXCERPT #MTGB4T p. 12 Recall, first of all, that fiat boundaries, the non-physical boundaries added to the world via human behavior and cognition, may constitute unities out of, radically heterogeneous parts. Think of a performance of a Wagner opera, a British general election, a garage sale. The wholes hereby constituted are spatio-temporal unities even though they are marked off from the rest of reality by no autonomous physical discontinuities. Wholes of these types – which the ecological psychologist Roger Barker has called physical-behavioral units – are of inestimable importance for an understanding of human cognition and action, since almost all human behavior occurs within one (or in what turns out to be a nested hierarchy of such wholes) . Indeed, we are determined through and through as human beings by such physical-behavioral units, exactly as non-human-animals are determined through and through by the ecological niches into which they have evolved. EXCERPT #L7GTVR p. 12 SECTION #QLVVUD 4.2 The Theory of Physical-Behavioral Units EXCERPT #NMV7AH p. 13 Ontologists interested in theories of categories have not, it must be noted, invested great efforts in the working out of an ontological theory of the objective environments in which we live and move. Thus we shall be heavily dependent in what follows on the work of Barker and also on the independently developed ecological psychology of J. J. Gibson. As Gibson points out: EXCERPT #E63MDB p. 13 The world can be analyzed at many levels, from atomic through terrestrial to cosmic. There is physical structure on the scale of millimicrons at one extreme and on the scale of light years at another. But surely the appropriate scale for animals is the intermediate one of millimeters to kilometers, and it is appropriate because the world and the animal are then comparable. (Gibson 1966, p. 22) EXCERPT #CYBATT p. 13 We shall be concerned, then, still more precisely with the ontology of behavioral environments at the mesoscopic level that is determined by the everyday perceptions and actions of human beings. EXCERPT #L6YZ6E p. 13 The mesoscopic environment, the setting of our actions and perceptions, that into which, from moment to moment, we precisely fit, is not homogeneous. It is divided on a plurality of levels into natural units which may repeat themselves (may exist in many copies), from place to place and some of which may be such as to possess definite, salient boundaries of different sorts. Thus the mesoscopic environment is marked by the presence of substances of different sorts (buildings, rooms, walls, bricks, tables) standing in stable relations to each other. But this environment is marked also by the no less overwhelming presence of what Barker calls physical-behavioral units , recurrent types of settings, which serve as the environments for the everyday activities of persons and groups of persons. Examples are: my Friday afternoon class, Jim's meeting with the Dean, your Thursday lunch, the plumber's visit, Gloria's drive to work. Each of these is marked by certain stable arrays of physical objects and physical infrastructure, and by certain stable patterns of behavior on the part of the persons involved. Physical-behavioral units are in this sense two-sided. They are built out of both physical and behavioral parts. EXCERPT #JFM48Y p. 13 EXCERPT #VNZ58T p. 14 As Barker puts it, physical-behavioral units – conversations, speeches, hunt meets, weddings EXCERPT #48CU3M p. 14 – EXCERPT #DCCHN2 p. 14 are common phenomenal entities, and they are natural units in no way imposed by an investigator. To laymen they are as objective as rivers and forests – they are parts of the objective environment that are experienced directly as rain and sandy beaches are experienced. (Barker 1968, p. 11) EXCERPT #JAF2NT p. 14 This importance of physical-behavioral units, recognized by Barker in the early 1960s, can hardly be overestimated. Even our daily ablutions, our journeys from site to site, and our loungings in daydream mode between quests, are recognizable as physical-behavioral units in Barker's terms. Even our more or less unsuccessful attempts to engage in given activities can be understood for what they are only in terms of a physical-behavioral unit of the corresponding, full-fledged type in relation to which attempt is determined as attempt and success is distinguished from failure. Only in moments of disorientation do we seem to be set free of all behavior settings, but this is just to imply that it is in relation to settings that we are in normal cases oriented. EXCERPT #E7XTEU p. 14 Yet leaving aside the work of a small number of psychologists – Barker and Gibson above all, Kurt Lewin, Egon Brunswik and Fritz Heider and the Berlin Gestaltists to some degree – investigations of physical-behavioral units whether by scientists or by philosophers are almost unknown. Variants of the Gestaltist concept have, it is true, been rediscovered in recent years, under different guises, by linguists such as Fillmore (1975) with his work on scenes, scripts, frames and slots. The idea is detectable also in Talmy's work (forthcoming) on the windowing of attention in language and in Langacker's discussion (1987) of 'settings' and 'regions.' 7 As Talmy puts it: EXCERPT #Q4BJA3 p. 14 Linguistic forms can direct the distribution of one's attention over a referent scene in a certain type of pattern, the placement of one or more windows of greatest attention over the scene, in a process that can be termed the windowing of attention. (1996, p. 236) EXCERPT #FBKL95 p. 14 7 See also Schank and Abelson 1977. Schoggen 1989 (pp. 302ff.) surveys a series of other near relatives of Barker's concept of physical-behavioral unit or setting, including the concept of 'domain' developed by the geographer Torsten Hagerstrand (1978). EXCERPT #GS7J2B p. 14 EXCERPT #EBHU6Y p. 15 Common to all such processes is the determination of a boundary, which might be a sharp line or a gradient zone, and whose particular scope and contour – hence, the particular quantity and portions of material that it encloses – can be seen to vary from context to context. The characteristics of such boundaries include: EXCERPT #8Z8BT3 p. 15 First ... the material enclosed within the boundary is felt to constitute a unitary coherent conceptual entity distinct from the material outside the boundary. Second, there seems to be some sense of connectivity throughout the material enclosed within the boundary and, contrariwise, some sense of discontinuity or disjuncture across the boundary between the enclosed and external material. ... Third, the various portions of the material within the boundary are felt to be corelevant to each other, whereas the material outside the boundary is not relevant to that within. (1996., p. 240) EXCERPT #FZE96W p. 15 None of these thinkers, however, has demonstrated Barker's ontological sophistication in providing an account of scenes, frames or regions as parts of reality comprehending not only human behavioral aspects but also substances and accidents belonging to the physical realm. Husserl's theory of the 'surrounding world' or 'life world' (1970a, pp. 103ff., 272) is a first, informal approximation to an ontological theory of the requisite sort. Its central idea, that an environment is that into which an organism exactly fits, is present in germ in Aristotle's doctrine of place. Physical-behavioral units (settings, scenes) have however been otherwise almost entirely neglected by philosophers. This is due, first of all, to a tendency amongst philosophers to embrace one or other form of ontological monism, a tendency which has made them glide unknowingly over objects of a transcategorical character, or seek to reduce them – for example in guise of the Wittgensteinian doctrine of 'language games', to objects of a suitably monistic flavor. It is due, secondly, to the fact that behavioral settings manifest a mereotopological character, which is, again, alien to the world view especially of contemporary philosophers, who have been inspired above all by ideas of logical construction (or more generally by ideas based on predicate logic and set theory as instruments of ontology). The formal ontology of settings, niches, or physical behavioral units is thus far completely undeveloped, in spite of the degree to which recent work in analytic metaphysics has been marked by an increasing readiness to admit into its categorical systems objects – such as artifacts, actual and possible worlds, moments, tropes and individualized properties – of non-traditional sorts. EXCERPT #Z26EWR p. 15 SECTION #7AD3KD 4.3 Ontological Properties of Physical-Behavioral Units EXCERPT #FWQHLP p. 16 Each physical-behavioral unit has two sorts of components: human beings behaving in certain ways (lecturing, sitting, listening, eating), and non-psychological objects with which behavior is transacted (chairs, walls, paper, forks, electricity, etc.). Each physical-behavioral unit has a salient boundary which separates an organized internal (foreground) pattern from a differing external (background) pattern. This boundary, too, though it is far from simple, is an objective part of nature, though it may change according to the participants involved or according to the nature of the activity. Each unit is circumjacent to its components: the former exactly surrounds (encloses, encompasses) the latter without a break: the pupils and equipment are in the class; the shop opens at 8 a.m. and closes at 6 p.m. EXCERPT #58969D p. 16 A physical-behavioral unit is a unit: its parts are united together , not through any similarity, but rather through interdependence, including that sort of interdependence which flows from the exercise of controlling power. Events within the unit have a greater effect upon each other than do equivalent events beyond its boundary. EXCERPT #GL4J8L p. 16 The units have an internal structure, and individuals and categories of individuals occupy the various parts or roles within these structures to different degrees. The relation between participant and setting is to different degrees one of reciprocal co-determination. Each participant has two positions within the unit: first, he is a component which thus goes to form the unit; second, he is an individual whose behavior, and whose very nature, is itself partly formed by the unit of which he is at any given moment a part. EXCERPT #NYRHCU p. 16 On the one hand is the objective environment in which we live and move. On the other hand is the interior of the organism. At the interface of these is the person, with his behavior as a person, behavior that is connected in complex ways with both his inside parts (neurons, muscles, hormones) and with the outside environment. Environment, person and bodily interior are thus combined together topologically in a nesting arrangement, so that the person, too, is in some sense a boundary or separation phenomenon within a nesting arrangement. The person, with its states and behavior (perceptions, actions, desires, beliefs, judgments, skills) stands between phenomena on its outside and on its inside, and the latter belong to different orders of reality from both the person itself and from each other. As boundary phenomenon the person is then dependent upon these two environments, the inner and outer. In particular, the person is colored and shaped, is determined through and through, by the behavioral context of the moment. And because this context is subject to constant change, then it follows, as Schoggen puts it, a person has many strengths, many intelligences, many social maturities, many speeds, many degrees of liberality and conservativeness, and many moralities, depending in large part on the particular contexts of the person's behavior. For example, the same person who displays marked obtuseness when confronted with a mechanical problem may show impressive skill and adroitness in dealing with social situations. (1989, p. 7. Cf. Barker 1968, pp. 6, 161.) EXCERPT #PFDSMB p. 16 SECTION #EYHWKF 4.4 Spatial Shadows of Physical-Behavioral Units EXCERPT #V42G5R p. 17 Each physical-behavioral unit occupies a determinate, bounded locale having observable geographical, physical and temporal attributes and having boundaries which are coincident with the boundaries of the behavior which takes place within it. Certain physical-behavioral units may in addition cast spatial shadows which endure through time. The resulting spatial projections of physical-behavioral units are then on the one hand the product of the behavior taking place inside them; on the other hand however this behavior may itself be determined and constrained by the given spatial locale – as a football game is determined and constrained by the field on which it is played. Standing patterns of behavior are here projected in enduring fashion onto two-dimensional space (onto the surface of the earth). Enduring locales may in other cases however enjoy some of the properties of integrated physical objects, as in the case of schools and monasteries, observatories and shipyards. EXCERPT #4UKKHX p. 17 In addition to such immediate spatial projections of human activity on a local scale, however, there are also varieties of human activity which cast spatial shadows in indirect fashion out into regions beyond the immediate locus of the behavior in question. This occurs for example in the case of postal districts, land-parcels within property sub-divisions, city blocks, protected wilderness zones which are the products of more or less artificial demarcations imposed on the land from without. In certain circumstances such spatial locales may take on a life of their own – they may acquire proper names, serve as the objects of emotional attachments, grow and shrink or merge and split or indeed (as in the case of Poland and Israel) survive periods of annihilation and transpositions in spatial location over time. Such objects are not behavior-settings in Barker's sense, though behavior-settings are nested within them, and these may share common characteristics in virtue of this nesting. 8 EXCERPT #83S5FY p. 17 8 Consider Husserl's discussion of the marks of 'Europe' or of 'Western civilization' in his 1970a, pp. 269ff. EXCERPT #HRQXCZ p. 17 SECTION #YZ6ZSE 4.5 Laws of Physical-Behavioral Units EXCERPT #CG2BSE p. 18 Units have their own behavior, and their own laws which govern this behavior – laws which are different from those that govern the behavior of the person or persons involved (this, too, is a consequence of transcategoriality, and has done much to make physical-behavioral units resistant to scientific treatment). For Barker the laws governing such units may best be understood in mechanical or at least artefactual terms: EXCERPT #98EKDD p. 18 The model of an engine seems to be more appropriate to represent what occurs than is the model of an organism or person. For example, this entity can be ‘turned off’ and disassembled at the will of the operator, the chairman. He can adjourn the meeting (for a coffee break) and call it to order again. While it is disassembled, some of the parts can be adjusted (a discussant replaced). Individuals have no psychological properties like these. (Barker 1978, pp. 34f) EXCERPT #PTY37M p. 18 The temporal histories of at least many of the physical-behavioral units by which our lives are structured thus have shapes distinct from the temporal histories of individual persons and their individual experiences. Many physical-behavioral units have sharp beginnings and endings (consider the beginning and ending of a race, or of a contractual agreement). Our pains, illnesses, regrets, in contrast, characteristically grow and fade in intensity. Physical-behavioral units are also sometimes marked by spatial borders which are more crisp and more often rectilinear than are the spatial borders of naturally occurring phenomena such as epidemics or storms. The borders of physical-behavioral units need not be crisp in other respects, however. Consider, for example, the question whether the groom’s sneezing is or is not part of that physical-behavioral unit which is his wedding. EXCERPT #WAG4XE p. 18 On the other hand, physical-behavioral units manifest a capacity for self-sustenance which is much more like what we find in the biological realm. They are characteristically self-regulating, and are such as to guide their components to characteristic states and to maintain those states within limited ranges of values in the face of disturbances. 9 Slight modifications within given dimensions of the unit can be sustained without detriment to its continued existence as a unit of this type. The total behavior of the unit – for example a lecture – cannot be greatly changed, however, without its being destroyed. The lecture must contain an introduction; there must be a speech, there must be listening and discussion. Within the meeting, there are the subparts: chairman, speaker, discussant, audience (as within the sentence there are the subparts: subject, verb, noun, rising inflection, etc.). EXCERPT #CC42E8 p. 18 9 . Barker 1968, pp. 154f. EXCERPT #8SZD6M p. 18 SECTION #4KHKME 4.6 The Marks of Environments/Niches/Settings10 EXCERPT #ZJG2S9 p. 19 The ontological marks of environments/niches/settings, as Aristotle might conceive them, are as follows: EXCERPT #JCZ62F p. 19 (i) Environmental settings are complexes of substances and accidents which require a support from certain special sorts of ‘participant’ substances in order to exist. EXCERPT #A4R83H p. 19 (ii) Environmental settings are that which, while remaining numerically one and the same, can be sustained by distinct participant substances at different times: Clinton is sometimes President, sometimes not. EXCERPT #EFJJWT p. 19 (iii) Environmental settings are ‘one by a process of nature’. An environmental setting has the unity of a living thing. Thus it enjoys a certain natural completeness or rounded-offness, being neither too small nor too large – in contrast to the arbitrary undetached parts of environmental settings and to arbitrary heaps or aggregates of environmental settings. EXCERPT #7JJGTZ p. 19 (iv) An environmental setting has a complete boundary which is determinate at least in the sense that there are objects which fall clearly within it, and other objects which fall clearly outside it. EXCERPT #XYB5LJ p. 19 (v) An environmental setting has actual parts which are also environmental settings : the geometry lesson is a part of the total physical-behavioral setting of the school. EXCERPT #E2FBQ3 p. 19 (vi) An environmental setting may similarly be the proper part of larger, circumcluding environmental settings . An environmental setting is however distinct in its form or category from any arbitrary heap of Environmental settings . An environmental setting may be scattered through space; it need not be spatially connected in the topological sense. EXCERPT #EG2QJC p. 19 (vii) An environmental setting takes up space, it occupies a physical-temporal locale, and is such as to have spatial parts. It is spatially extended, but it is (unlike physical substances, land-masses, parcels of real estate) such as to have divisible bulk. EXCERPT #SUXY93 p. 19 (viii) An environmental setting has a beginning and an end in time, but the environmental setting is not self-identical from the beginning to the end of its existence. John as child is identical to John as adult, but the first half of John’s geometry lesson is not identical to the second half. Environmental settings , unlike substances, have temporal parts, both natural temporal parts (such as the first set of the match) and arbitrary temporal parts (such as the first 10 seconds of the geometry lesson). Environmental settings are in this respect comparable, ontologically, to accidents rather than to substances. EXCERPT #63FHYS p. 19 10 For further details see Smith (forthcoming). For a formal ontology of the niche concept see Smith and Varzi 1998. EXCERPT #C2FYRD p. 19 EXCERPT #H6AS5Z p. 20 (ix) The existence of an environmental setting through time need not be continuous: some environmental settings (for example a chess game, a football tournament) enjoy intermittent existence. EXCERPT #MMXGYR p. 20 (x) There are no punctually existing environments, as there are punctual events (for example beginnings, endings, and instantaneous changes of other sorts). SECTION #DLPCC7 4.7 Hierarchical Nesting EXCERPT #XHH8PL p. 20 Many ecological units occur in assemblies, as a chick embryo, for example, is constructed as a nested hierarchy of organs, cells, nuclei, molecules, atoms, and subatomic particles. EXCERPT #LGKZU4 p. 20 A unit in the middle range of a nesting structure is simultaneously both circumjacent and interjacent, both whole and part, both entity and environment. An organ –the liver, for example – is whole in relation to its own component pattern of cells, and is a part in relation to the circumjacent organism that it, with other organs, composes; it forms the environment of its cells, and is, itself, environed by the organism. (Barker 1968, p. 154) EXCERPT #A7XAF8 p. 20 Physical-behavioral units, too, may be nested together in hierarchies in this way. There are typically many units of each lower-level kind within a given locality, and these are typically embedded within larger units: the game is embedded within the match, the honeymoon is embedded within the marriage, the lecture meeting is embedded within the university. The drawing of the triangle on the blackboard is embedded within the geometry lesson, which is embedded within the school, which is embedded within the city. Each of these are physical-behavioral units in Barker's sense. On the other hand, a randomly delineated square mile in the center of a city is not a physical-behavioral unit, nor is the mereological sum of its Republican voters; the former has no self-generated unity; the latter has no continuously bounded space-time locus. 11 EXCERPT #DKG3NE p. 20 11 . Cf. Barker 1968, pp. 11f., 16; 1978, p. 34. EXCERPT #HHWHVY p. 20 SECTION #M2U6L8 4.8 The Systematic Mutual Fittingness of Behavior and Ecological Setting EXCERPT #XKURJ6 p. 21 The behavior and the physical objects that together constitute the totality of a given physical-behavioral unit are intertwined in such a way as to form a pattern that is by no means random: there is a relation of harmonious fit between the standard patterns of behavior occurring within the unit and the pattern of its physical components. (The seats in the lecture hall are such as to face the speaker. The speaker addresses his remarks out towards the audience. The boundary of the football field is, apart from certain well-defined exceptions, the boundary of the game. The beginning and end of the school music period mark the limits of the pattern of music behavior.) This mutual fittingness of behavior and physical environment extends to the fine, interior structure of a behavior in a way which will imply a radical nontransposability of standing patterns of behavior from one environment to another. The conditions obtaining in particular settings are as essential for some kinds of behavior as are persons with the requisite motives and skills. 12 EXCERPT #2PYEFU p. 21 There are various forces or influences which help to bring about and to sustain this mutual fittingness. 13 Forces which flow in the direction from setting to behavior include physical constraints exercised by hedges, walls or corridors or by persons with sticks; they include social forces manifested in the authority of the teacher, in threats, promises, warnings; they include the physiological effects of climate, the need for food and water; and they include the effects of perceived physiognomic features of the environment (open spaces seduce children, a businesslike atmosphere encourages businesslike behavior). Mutual fittingness can be reinforced by learning, and also by a process of selection of the persons involved, whether this be one of self-selection (of children who remain in Sunday school class in light of their ability to conform to the corresponding standing patterns of behavior), or a matter of externally imposed entrance tests. Forces which flow in the contrary direction, which is to say from behavior to setting, include all those ways in which a succession of separate and uncoordinated actions can have unintended consequences in the form of new types of actions and new, modified types of settings in the future (as the passage of many feet causes pathways to form in the hillside). EXCERPT #3H4YEP p. 21 12 . Barker 1968, pp. 32. EXCERPT #NKJQ5S p. 21 13 . Cf. Barker 1968, pp. 30f. Schoggen (1989, p. 4) describes physical-behavioral settings as consisting of 'highly structured, improbable arrangements of objects and events that coerce behavior in accordance with their own dynamic patterning.' EXCERPT #HGP26C p. 21 SECTION #LZYZTH 4.9 Ontological Transcategoriality of Ecological Settings EXCERPT #3MTSKA p. 22 A physical-behavioral unit such as a religious meeting, a tennis championship or a sea battle is an intricate complex of times, places, actions, and things. Its constituents can include both manmade elements (buildings, streets, cricket pitches, books, pianos, libraries, the bridges and engine-rooms of battleships) and also natural features (hills, lakes, waves, particular climatic features, patterns of light and sound). These features and elements may be further restricted to a highly specific combination of, say, a particular room in a particular building at a particular time with particular persons and objects distributed in a particular pattern. But the total unit may comprehend also a variety of non-physical components in addition to the behavior of the persons involved. Thus the unit may comprehend for example different types of linguistic, legal and institutional elements, all combined together in space and time in highly specific ways. The phenomena involved are in addition diverse not only as concerns their material constitution but also as concerns their ontological form (thus they comprehend substances, events, actions, states and manifold relations between all of these). As Barker puts it: EXCERPT #9ZR3FF p. 22 The conceptual incommensurability of phenomena which is such an obstacle to the unification of the sciences does not appear to trouble nature's units. – Within the larger units, things and events from conceptually more and more alien sciences are incorporated and regulated. (1968, p. 155) EXCERPT #DX5KNP p. 22 As far as our behavior is concerned, therefore, even the most radical diversity of kinds and categories need not prevent integration. EXCERPT #Z464VK p. 22 Hand in hand with the ontological transcategoriality of behavior settings goes also the ontological transcategoriality of the associated boundaries. Physical-behavioral units are set apart from each other, and from the surrounding environment, not only via boundaries of a simple spatial and temporal sort. There are boundaries also of granularity: some events, for example events on a molecular scale, are standardly of too small a scale to function as events (to be salient features of) physical-behavioral units of the types we are here considering. Events within the interior of my body, too, are standardly such as to fall outside the boundary of the physical-behavioral units in which we standardly engage (not, however, outside the boundary of neurologists or gastroenterologists). Only some sorts of noises will be such as to fall within the boundary of a symphony concert. Only some sorts of deaths will be such as to fall within the boundary of a battle or war. From the standpoint of formal ontology, too, the boundaries of physical-behavioral settings are transcategorial. Thus the boundary of a horse-race comprehends within its scope certain substances (horses, riders, spectators), a certain region of space and associated fixtures (land, fences, starting-gate, pavilion), but also certain events, processes, relations, and properties of materially determinate types. EXCERPT #UQWLCJ p. 22 SECTION #LCVXQ6 4.10 The Ecological Niche EXCERPT #9KVGX8 p. 23 For Gibson, too, reality is a complex hierarchy of inter-nested levels: molecules are nested within cells, cells are nested within leaves, leaves are nested within trees, trees are nested within forests, and so on (Gibson 1986, p. 101). Each type of organism is tuned in its perception and actions to objects on a specific level within this complex hierarchy, to objects which together form what Gibson calls an ‘ecological niche’. (Gibson’s own account of this relationship of tuning – in terms of information pick-up – need not detain us here.) A niche is that into which an animal fits ; it is that in relation to which the animal is habituated in its behavior. 14 A niche embraces not only objects of different sorts, but also shapes, colors, textures, tendencies, boundaries (surfaces, edges), all of which are organized in such a way as to enjoy affordance-character for the animal in question: they are relevant to its survival. The given features motivate the organism; they are such as to intrude upon its life, to stimulate the organism in a range of different ways. EXCERPT #3LBSDD p. 23 The perceptions and actions of human beings are likewise tuned to the characteristic shapes and qualities and patterns of behavior of our own respective natural environments. This mutual embranglement is however in our case extended further via artefacts, and via cultural phenomena such as language and its associated institutions. To learn a language is in part also to extend the range of objects in relation to which we are able spontaneously to adjust our behavior and thus to extend radically the types of niche or setting into which we can spontaneously fit. SECTION #BX4AGH 4.11 In Defense of Realism EXCERPT #RV8GTR p. 23 A science of human environments will look very different from any science of the more standard sort. This has led some philosophers and cognitive scientists to suppose that environments, settings, physical-behavioral units are phenomena only – that they are subjective constructs, properly to be treated within the methodologically solipsistic framework of psychology. The challenge, then, as Gibson saw, is to demonstrate how a science of environmental settings can be ‘ consistent with physics, mechanics, optics, acoustics, and chemistry’, being only a matter of ‘facts of higher order that have never been made explicit by these sciences and have gone unrecognized.’ (Gibson 1979, p. 17) Hence it should be possible to develop a realist theory of the physical-behavioral units and of other types of fiat objects relevant to everyday human cognition in a manner which does not involve the rejection of standard quantitative physics. Gibson uses the term ‘ecology’ precisely in order to designate the discipline that should encompass these intermediate-level facts; it is presented as ‘a EXCERPT #MVYE5K p. 23 14 Gibson 1986, p. 129. EXCERPT #FB2LY4 p. 23 EXCERPT #A5FMH7 p. 24 blend of physics, geology, biology, archeology, and anthropology, but with an attempt at unification' on the basis of the question: what can stimulate the organism? (Gibson 1966, p. 21) The science of ecology will differ from these disciplines in that it will focus on cuts through reality of a different sort. ### 51. Tool result: read DOCUMENT #3CCZ4A Bodily Systems and the Spatial-Functional Structure of the Human Body SECTION #3GTB9R 1. Introduction EXCERPT #QLKZBT p. 0 Ontology plays an increasingly significant role in work on terminology and knowledge management systems in the domain of biomedical informatics, and we hold that it will play an essential role in the biomedical research of the future. The term ‘ontology’ must, however, be understood in the right way. [1] According to the dominant paradigm, which might be referred to as ‘applications ontology,’ the ontologist should focus primarily on the construction of ontologies as working software applications. This paradigm goes hand in hand with the thesis that the expressive power of an ontology should be limited, effectively, to that of one or other version of Description Logic. [2] This means that an ontology, when applied to complex domains such as those of biomedicine, is forced to deal with simplified models. EXCERPT #JWE8SC p. 0 There is, however, a second ‘reference ontology’ school of thought, which focuses primarily on the development of ontological theories of the entities in given domains. Such theories are marked by a high degree of representational adequacy and are designed to be used as controls on the results achieved by working applications rather than as substitutes for these working applications themselves. [3] EXCERPT #XUQT5P p. 0 Three levels of reference ontology can be distinguished in the biomedical domain: EXCERPT #9JAAGD p. 0 1. formal ontology: a top-level domain-independent theory involving terms such as: object , process , identity , part , location ; 2. domain ontology: a top-level theory applying the structure of a formal ontology to the biomedical domain, involving terms such as: body , life , disease , organ , tissue , cell , chromosome ; EXCERPT #5F8MB9 p. 1 3. terminology-based ontology: a very large lower-level system, based on medical terminologies such as UMLS or on biological controlled vocabularies such as the Gene Ontology, and involving terms such as: inflammatory change in the gastric mucosa or common-partner SMAD protein phosphorylation . EXCERPT #FWE8DK p. 1 The Institute for Formal Ontology and Medical Information Science in Leipzig is constructing a reference ontology for the domain of biomedicine. [4] This ontology is not a computer application but a framework of axioms and definitions relating to general terms such as: organism, tissue, disease, therapy. In this paper we focus on the notion of bodily system , which we believe will serve as a central factor in a robust ontology of the human organism. EXCERPT #YZ4UUB p. 1 Rosse and Mejino [5] have recognized the need in bioinformatics for domain ontologies of the human body, and they and their co-workers are creating such a domain ontology of human anatomy, the Foundational Model of Anatomy (hereafter: FMA). [6] The FMA is designed to represent the purely structural organization of the human body from the macromolecular to the macroscopic levels. Its goal is to provide a robust and consistent scheme for classifying anatomical entities on the basis of explicit definitions, and to associate with these entities attributes that can support spatial reasoning about the body. This scheme is designed to be maximally neutral (in contrast, for example, to a system like SNOMED, [7] which was designed for the specific purpose of medical record encoding). Thus the FMA is extendable, in principle, also to organisms of other species and to organisms at various stages of development. Further, it can provide a spatial-structural template for representing pathology, physiological function and genotype-phenotype correlations. In this way it can serve as a reference ontology in biomedical informatics. EXCERPT #8RS5EX p. 1 The FMA is thus in our terminology not an application ontology, but rather a reference ontology. That is, it seeks to provide a theoretical framework which can, when fully developed, serve as the theoretical basis for a variety of applications and special purpose ontologies of different sorts. SECTION #39W7VS 1.1 Incorporating Function EXCERPT #8ZA98Z p. 1 The framework advanced below is very much like that of the FMA. Thus it, too is designed to be scalable to all levels of biological organization. But it differs from the FMA in that it integrates the functional with the structural context. Thus where Rosse and Mejino's ontology represents the anatomy of the human body in a purely structural way, the ontology of bodily systems presented below will encompass anatomical structures in a context which takes account also of functions and their realizations. We aim, in other words, to link anatomy with physiology. EXCERPT #B3T5MS p. 1 Where the FMA treats organ systems from the bottom up (organ systems are effectively systems defined in terms of their parts or members), our notion of bodily system is derived from a view of function which starts from the organism at the top and works down to lower-level parts. It is our long-term goal to demonstrate that this top-down perspective can serve as a unifying factor in a robust ontology designed for purposes of biomedical informatics. EXCERPT #AULAQ4 p. 1 This long-term goal reflects an aspect of our methodology which distinguishes it from that of the FMA. The latter rests on an underlying assumption to the effect that we should build our ontologies by first capturing the knowledge developed in the highly specialized and narrow fields of biomedicine from those who generate the primary data, and then formalizing this information within one or another preferred framework. The task is then one of linking together these different sub-domain ontologies into higher-level ontologies in a way that could serve as a reference for well-defined fields of biology and medicine. EXCERPT #XREA44 p. 2 From the perspective defended here, in contrast, the primary focus is on the issue of how to facilitate the necessary linking between such separate technical views. If sub-domain specialists are using terms like ‘function’ or ‘system’ (or ‘cell’ or ‘gene’) in consistent fashions then such linking will ensue unproblematically. If, on the other hand (as the evidence suggests), they are using such terms in highly inconsistent ways, [8] then a linking together of the corresponding views can be effected only on the basis of an analysis along the lines presented below, an analysis which takes the whole organism as starting point. Some analysis of this sort is indeed required in either case, since to establish whether usage is consistent we need to establish what given sub-domain specialists standardly mean when they use the mentioned terms, and that too is part of the endeavor here described. DOCUMENT #3CCZ4A Bodily Systems and the Spatial-Functional Structure of the Human Body SECTION #JHMTY4 3.8 The Body as Spatial-Functional Hierarchy EXCERPT #L7X8QD p. 13 We have now arrived at a picture of the body as a complex modular hierarchy that is at once spatial and functional. The heart, for example, is at once a part of the circulatory system and an element in that system. As a part, it is a mereological component of a physical structure visible exclusively in a SNAP ontology such as the FMA. As an element, it has a function that is realized in processes, and therefore it requires for its demarcation also reference to a SPAN ontology. EXCERPT #XYK3M5 p. 13 On the spatial-functional hierarchy here defended, the circulatory system is at the top level, the heart is located at the next level down, and its elements – ventricles, atria, valves, and so on – at the next level thereafter. Each of the latter bears a function in relation to the higher-level functioning of the heart. The circulatory system itself is an element of the human body taken as a whole. EXCERPT #VK4RBV p. 13 Now, of course, we run into a problem: what is the function of the human body, in relation to which the circulatory system and other bodily systems can be said to have constituent functions? [25] distinguish several possible types of functions the human body may be said to have: (a) a constituent function of some larger whole, say a species; (b) an objectively existing function, which is intrinsic to the human body; or (c) a functional purpose merely ascribed or imputed to the human body in the conventions of language-using subjects (along the lines proposed by Searle [22]). EXCERPT #6HTJBQ p. 13 Alternative (c) is inconsistent with our presupposition that the functions of bodily systems exist in objective reality. It would also ‘seem to license cultural relativity or even pure subjectivity to enter into science’ [25]. The life sciences themselves, on the other hand, often talk about functions intuitively as if they exist in objective reality. Neither (a) nor (b) contradicts the proposition that constituent functions exist objectively, and it is possible to hold either (a) or (b) consistently with an account of constituent functions as existing at a plurality of levels below the human body itself. EXCERPT #B85H4T p. 13 Even so, both (a) and (b) are problematic for their own reasons: (a) is problematic because it calls for an account of what the larger whole is within which the human body functions, and seems thereafter to threaten a vicious regress: where does the spatial-functional hierarchy stop as we move upwards to ever larger wholes? (b) is problematic because definitions of ‘intrinsic function’ thus far proposed (e.g., [28]) are highly problematic. EXCERPT #LQSXBT p. 13 Here, therefore, following Johansson et al. , we shall bracket the question of what kind of function (if any) the human body has, and concern ourselves only with the functioning of its elements. EXCERPT #77LY9W p. 14 We also take over from [25] the idea of a spatial-functional hierarchy, which, in contrast to the FMA, supports an assay of the body's anatomical structures in tandem with an assay of the corresponding functions. The spatial side of this hierarchy taxonomizes the body's anatomy according to a modular structure (i.e. in terms of what is element of what). The functional side of the hierarchy taxonomizes the body according to which functional processes cause, or enable, which other functional processes to occur. Fusing a spatial taxonomy with a functional taxonomy yields a spatial-functional hierarchy. EXCERPT #FKCSCV p. 14 The two sides match up, first of all because functions are dependent SNAP entities which depend for their existence on the independent SNAP entities which are their bearers, and secondly because their bearers have been selected (demarcated) precisely by taking account of the fact that they are bearers of corresponding functions. The body's complex anatomical structure allows for processes to occur, which means that the body is structured in such a way that the functions realized by the body can be ordered in a hierarchy parallel to its spatial-functional hierarchy of elements. Thus a cellular mitochondrion in a myocyte provides the chemical energy without which the myocyte cannot contract, and therefore contributes to the pumping of the heart. This is how physiology textbooks generally explain the relationship of the body's structure with the processes that that structure enables. We shall now attempt to express this relationship in formal terms. DOCUMENT #3CCZ4A Bodily Systems and the Spatial-Functional Structure of the Human Body SECTION #4AVMTN 7. Conclusion EXCERPT #8S9JVW p. 23 We have sought to set out the tools for providing an analysis of ‘bodily system’ in a way that will do justice to the way this term is used in existing standard sources, while at the same time providing the necessary degree of formal precision to form the basis for a future domain ontology of spatial-functional anatomy. Our account yields a roster of bodily systems that corresponds to a large extent to those given in the standard reference sources. If we are correct, we have hit upon some important characteristics that the systems listed in the standard rosters have in common. This does not prove that we are correct in thinking that those systems are correctly described by using the same term, or that ‘bodily system’ is that term. But the strong correlation between standard rosters and our account pushes us in the direction of believing that we are on the right track. EXCERPT #GFTL6D p. 23 Acknowledgements: This work was supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation under the auspices of its Wolfgang Paul Program. Our thanks go also to Ingvar Johansson, Anand Kumar, Cornelius Rosse, and Nikoloz Tsikolia for extremely helpful comments. They are not responsible for any errors which remain. ### 52. Tool result: read DOCUMENT #WYP3G6 Ontology and Geographic Kinds SECTION #VGF6LC Abstract EXCERPT #YFX34B p. 0 An ontology of geographic kinds is designed to yield a better understanding of the structure of the geographic world, and to support the development of geographic information systems that are conceptually sound. This paper first demonstrates that geographical objects and kinds are not just larger versions of the everyday objects and kinds previously studied in cognitive science. Geographic objects are not merely located in space, as are the manipulable objects of table-top space. Rather, they are tied intrinsically to space, and this means that their spatial boundaries are in many cases the most salient features for categorization. The ontology presented here will accordingly be based on topology (the theory of boundary, contact and separation) and on mereology (the theory of extended wholes and parts). Geographic reality comprehends mesoscopic entities, many of which are best viewed as shadows cast onto the spatial plane by human reasoning and language. Because of this, geographic categories are much more likely to show cultural differences in category definitions than are the manipulable objects of table-top space. EXCERPT #B2A66U p. 0 Keywords: ontology, mereology, geographic kinds, entity types, GIS DOCUMENT #WYP3G6 Ontology and Geographic Kinds SECTION #VHXH9F 6 Conclusions and Future Work EXCERPT #V53RRF p. 4 In this paper, we have presented some reasons why ontologies for geographic objects will differ from the ontologies of everyday objects commonly examined by philosophers and cognitive scientists. For one thing, topology and part-whole relations appear to be much more important in the geographic domain. Research on this topic must be careful to distinguish the domain of the real world from the domain of computational and mathematical representations, and both of these from the cognitive domain of reasoning, language, and human action. Human practice is an important part of the total ontology. Cultural differences in categorizations are more likely to be found for geographic entities than for objects at table-top scales. Geographic ontologies are more strongly focused on boundaries, and a typology of boundaries is critical. Work involving formal comparisons of geospatial and cartographic data standards and dictionary definitions in a variety of languages will provide an important starting point for the cross-cultural experiments with human subjects that will be needed to refine the details of the ultimate ontology of geographic kinds. EXCERPT #TDHYES p. 4 EXCERPT #RLK54V p. 4 ### 53. Tool result: read DOCUMENT #KSESR8 Drawing Boundaries SECTION #T6NYMD Abstract EXCERPT #ZHVRSG p. 0 In “On Drawing Lines on a Map” (Smith, 1995) I suggested that the different ways we have of drawing lines on maps opens up a new perspective on ontology, resting on a distinction between two sorts of boundaries: fiat and bona fide . ‘Fiat’ means, roughly: human-demarcation-induced. ‘Bona fide’ means, again roughly: a boundary constituted by some real physical discontinuity. I presented a general typology of boundaries based on this opposition, and showed how it generates a corresponding typology of the different sorts of objects which boundaries determine or demarcate. In this paper I describe how the theory of fiat boundaries has evolved since 1995, how it has been applied in areas such as property law and political geography, and how it is being used in contemporary work in formal and applied ontology, especially within the framework of Basic Formal Ontology. DOCUMENT #KSESR8 Drawing Boundaries SECTION #74TYLN 9. Fiat and Bona Fide Boundaries in the Material Realm EXCERPT #4VQHM6 p. 16 Organisms and cells are marked as fundamental units of biology by the coverings or membranes which extends continuously across their surfaces, albeit with small apertures – such as pores, mouths, nostrils – which allow interchange of substances such as air and food between interior and exterior (Smith & Brogaard, 2003a). Objects of these sorts are thus bounded by bona fide coverings, which are parts of the objects which they bound. 12 For organisms in early phases of their lives, complex layered bona fide coverings have evolved with the function of protection, for instance against bacterial invasion, toxins and damage through physical force. The mammalian embryo is protected by the successive layers of (starting with the outermost layer): maternal epithelial covering (the outer protective layer formed by the mother's skin), the uterine wall, the placenta, chorion, and amnion, and ultimately by the outer layer of cells of the embryo itself. The eggshell of a chicken similarly protects the developing chick through an outermost inorganic layer called the cuticle of the egg, inside which is a succession of organic layers including the vertical crystal, and the palisade layers followed by the mammillary cone, external shell membrane, internal shell membrane, and limiting shell membrane (Hinckel, et al. , 2012). At the same time some 17,000 pores allow air and moisture to penetrate through these layers into the interior of the egg. EXCERPT #9QLHJR p. 16 Many other kinds of bona fide objects – including our own planet, starting with the Earth's crust – have exteriors structured in a similar way by a bona fide external layers, coverings or membranes. This holds of many artifacts for instance of automobiles, whose aluminum alloy panels are protected by successive layers of paint designed to protect against weather and UV radiation damage, stone-chipping, and so forth. Layered structures of these sorts are used also for protective purposes in roofs and walls, and also in highways and pavements. 13 EXCERPT #6FRX9P p. 16 11 Details are presented in (Whyte 2002). See also Vinokurov (2007). EXCERPT #6HUXKD p. 16 12 They are 'fiat object parts' in the terminology of BFO. EXCERPT #VTYT2A p. 16 13 Up to 8 such layers of timber, chalk, stone and other materials were employed already in the construction of Roman roads (Flaherty, 2002, p. 226). EXCERPT #GPEUH4 p. 16 EXCERPT #UAD6SM p. 17 Objects such as lumps of granite do not have coverings or membranes of these sorts. But this does not mean that they lose their status as bona fide objects. Indeed, they are bona fide in just the same sense that physically distinct layers of an epithelium or roadway are bona fide, namely in virtue of the physical discontinuity between them and the substances or media that surround them. EXCERPT #UZJ6H6 p. 17 For all the kinds of objects discovered manifest on their outermost surfaces what we shall call an interface. There is an interface between a block of granite and the surrounding air. There is an interface between any two adjacent layers in a multi-layered structure. And there is an interface between an outermost layer and the surrounding medium and between the innermost layer in a protective layered structure and the enclosed medium surrounding the protected organism. Stroll, in his book on Surfaces (1988, pp. 44f.), calls such interfaces ‘Leonardo surfaces’ – drawing on the discussion in Leonardo’s Notebooks of a surface as ‘the common boundary of two things that are in contact’, for example the boundary between the air and sea. For Stroll, as for Leonardo, surfaces are without bulk – as contrasted with the associated bulky portions of matter, which they are the surfaces of. For us here, however, interfaces are not perfectly thin zones at the exteriors of bona fide objects where microparticles may be such that their belongingness to one or other of the interfacing objects is only statistically specifiable. EXCERPT #GLFEZS p. 17 A general theory such matters is provided by J. J. Gibson in his Ecological Approach to Visual Perception (1979), in terms of a trichotomy of substance, surface and medium. As he puts it, where any two of solid, liquid and gas come into contact there is constituted a surface (Gibson, 1979: 16). Portions of liquid and gas serve as media with four characteristics that are of relevance to animal motion and perception: EXCERPT #LK9SK3 p. 17 1. detached solid bodies can move through them without resistance, and they thus afford locomotion, 2. they are generally transparent, transmitting light, and thus afford vision, 3. they transmit vibration or pressure, and thus afford auditory perception 4. they allow rapid chemical diffusion, thus affording olfactory perception (detection of a substance from a distance) EXCERPT #68EM45 p. 17 Light, sound and smell together guide and control motion, and as the animal moves it is tuned to the information contained in its environment, about things that reflect light, vibrate, or are volatile. They allow the animal to detect places that afford eating, to sniff out allies and predators, and so forth. More generally the animal is endowed with the ability to perceive objects, persons, and places (for example water holes) as persisting entities that can be detected and tracked. The animal is attuned to its surrounding environment along salient dimensions; its perceptual system thereby becomes immediately sensitized to salient differences in its environment. As Gibson puts it, ‘it resonates to the invariant structure’ – it is able to simply extract salient invariants from the flowing array ( op. cit. , pp. 249, 255). To recognize a facial gesture immediately and spontaneously as welcoming or antagonistic, to gauge the movement of vehicles approaching an intersection in such a way as to assess immediately and spontaneously whether it is safe for you to cross the intersection with your own vehicle. EXCERPT #DB8STN p. 17 EXCERPT #24NRCZ p. 18 The environment, and the affordances, of a dragonfly or a water strider are of course very different from those of fish or human beings. On some readings of Gibson, this is taken to imply a relativistic view on Gibson’s part, according to which organisms of different species live in different worlds (Katz, 1987; compare Smith, 2009). Water, for example, is a substance in one world and a medium in another. Katz infers from this that one could never say what water is, without saying for whom it is, and conversely (1987, p. 120). Gibson himself expresses the matter as follows: EXCERPT #HGK9T7 p. 18 The natural environment offers many ways of life, and different animals have different ways of life. The niche implies a kind of animal, and the animal implies a kind of niche. Note the complementarity of the two. But note also that the environment as a whole with its unlimited possibilities existed prior to animals. The physical, chemical, meteorological, and geological conditions of the surface of the earth and the pre-existence of plant life are what make animal life possible. They had to be invariant for animals to evolve. ( Op. cit. , p. 128) EXCERPT #CRGFG7 p. 18 Here, therefore, Gibson embraces a realist perspective, according to which there is a common world, and a common space, and a common set of feature-spaces to which all species-specific niches and all associated collections of affordances belong. This common space (as we may here assume) is a continuum, and like all continua it can be partitioned in a range of different ways. From this perspective the various conflicting ‘perceptual spaces’ are compatible; they reflect distinct partitions, roughly: partitions at different levels of granularity, of one and the same reality (Bittner and Smith 2003). With each of these partitions there is associated a family of affordances which ground relational dispositions linking animals to their external environments and to each other: EXCERPT #6GB7AL p. 18 What the male affords the female is reciprocal to what the female affords the male; what the infant affords the mother is reciprocal to what the mother affords the infant; what the prey affords the predator goes along with what the predator affords the prey; what the buyer affords the seller cannot be separated from what the seller affords the buyer, and so on. The perceiving of these mutual affordances is enormously complex, but it is nonetheless lawful, and it is based on the pickup of the information in touch, sound, odor, taste, and ambient light. (Gibson, 1979, p. 135) EXCERPT #BA8Y8C p. 18 The demarcations associated with such mutual affordances bring into being zones of different sorts (Smith & Varzi, 2002), for example bubble-like zones around each person in a public area, forming what is called their personal space , which other persons (for examples persons of one or other sex) may or may not be allowed to penetrate; zones created where persons interact sexually in given environments which demarcate, for example, those parts of the body for which touching is permissible, from those parts of the body that are not permissible to touch; zones in which an infant is allowed to play freely; zones in which a potential prey can feel itself secure from encroachments by its predators; zones in a department store which demarcate areas where only very expensive products are for sale (sometimes including locked cabinets) from other zones with cheaper products, and so forth. EXCERPT #3WWJ6S p. 18 ### 54. Tool result: read DOCUMENT #KG5TBB Making space: the natural, cultural, cognitive and social niches of human activity SECTION #57ZZM6 Abstract EXCERPT #ANA2NN p. 0 This paper is in two parts. Part 1 examines the phenomenon of making space as a process involving one or other kind of legal decision-making, for example when a state authority authorizes the creation of a new highway along a certain route or of a new park in a certain location. In cases such as this, a new abstract spatial entity comes into existence – the route, the boundaries of the area to be set aside for the park – followed only later by concordant changes in physical reality. In Part 2, we show that features identified in studying this phenomenon of legal spacemaking can be detected in other spheres of human activity, for example in planning (where spacemaking is projected into the future), and in reasoning about history (where spacemaking is projected back through time). We shall see that these features display themselves in especially complex ways in our everyday use of language, and we conclude by examining the implications of this complexity for attempts to create an artificial intelligence that would enjoy a mastery of language that would be equivalent to that of human beings. EXCERPT #XF7KM9 p. 0 Keywords Fiat objects · Spatial ontology · Boundaries · Artificial Intelligence DOCUMENT #KG5TBB Making space: the natural, cultural, cognitive and social niches of human activity SECTION #SF9HJX Conclusion EXCERPT #EW975A p. 8 To what purpose, then, are we developing spatial ontologies based on obscure ideas of fiat spatial and spatiotemporal entities ? One answer is precisely the utility of suitably tailored ontologies in achieving at least a useful part of what protagonists of AGI are striving for. EXCERPT #ZYQ8SA p. 8 18 Or, more generally, of the human brain or central nervous system. In this context, ‘non-ergodic’ means that the elements of the conversation are never distributed according to a predictable pattern. A system is ‘evolutionary’ if new elements, new element types, and new interactions and interaction types can arise at any time. EXCERPT #G77K8D p. 8 EXCERPT #2NWB87 p. 9 EXCERPT #TL7LHM p. 9 EXCERPT #LD7QKH p. 9 In (Landgrebe and Smith 2021, Appendix), we describe a multi-stage multi-component strategy to use logically axiomatized formal ontologies, along with stochastic algorithms and other components, to translate complex natural language expressions in a way that will capture in logical form the full meaning of these expressions as used in a given domain and for a given purpose. EXCERPT #2CD4KL p. 9 A general purpose application of this sort is, by our arguments above, impossible. If, however, we focus on specific narrow domains, with limited semantic scope, then we can build corresponding domain-specific ontologies that can be deployed along the lines described to generate the representation in machine-readable form not merely of single expressions but of entire texts, even of entire corpora of texts. The outputs of this process are logical formulae using ontology terms which are counterparts of the semantic patterns used in the relevant domain. EXCERPT #Q2LPQP p. 9 The methodology has been applied, for example, to the automatic processing of correspondence between customers and energy suppliers. Where the system cannot respond adequately to a given piece of correspondence, the item in question is passed on for handling by a human expert. EXCERPT #6KYK2Y p. 9 We believe that systems of this sort could be developed in areas such as insurance claims processing, legal text analysis, medical billing, analysis of descriptions of financial assets (such as bonds and securities), or in domain-specific semantic search. EXCERPT #Y7EHR3 p. 9 We emphasize once more that the strategy can be used only in narrowly restricted domains, with a narrowly restricted vocabulary, and only after the manual construction, testing and refining of detailed ontologies formalized using first-order logic. We create general ontologies, for example of spatial entities and spatial relations, not because we believe that such ontologies can support general AI, but because the difficult task of building high-quality detail-focused domain-specific ontologies is made considerably easier if we have a consistent set of mature, well-tested more general ontologies that can provide a reliable starting point for domain ontology development and potentially also increase the degree to which expertise derived from building ontologies in one domain can be applied also in neighboring domains. This final consideration is important not least because many of the domain ontologies built in recent years failed because their developers did not draw on any widely accepted and well-understood principles of development. 19 ### 55. Tool result: read DOCUMENT #GN66WW Ontologies of Common Sense, Physics and Mathematics SECTION #74LR6W 5 The ontological relation of common sense, physics and mathematics EXCERPT #FDVHRT p. 26 What can we learn about the relationship of the ontologies of common sense, physics and mathematics from the examples we analysed? This becomes clear when we use the subdivision of the ontology of physics into system entities, magnitudes and models. In classical physics, which is tightly linked to common sense and in which we understand what we are observing using common-sense thinking, all system entities are real-world entities understandable by common sense. Thus they are either universals in the sense of BFO (see figure 10, top of left panel) or they are instances of such universals. EXCERPT #BPDW7V p. 26 The magnitudes of classical physics, however, have a dual character. As universals, they are again parts of the coverage domain of BFO (middle of left panel). When viewed from the mathematical point of view, on the other hand, in other words viewed as parts of mathematical models, they are not. Therefore \text{BFO} \cap \text{PhysO} = \text{PhysO} \setminus \text{MathO} . The models have no BFO part because they do not have instances in reality (bottom of left panel). EXCERPT #HPNU3N p. 26 To see how this works consider the mass used in the forced harmonic oscillator model with dampening (a realistic model). This is the mass of BFO, a quality of a material entity. The magnitude mass used to measure the weight of the entity is this same BFO entity. But the magnitude viewed mathematically is something quite different. Of course, the harmonic oscillator equation cannot be viewed as we can view the real system with a common sense stance, because it exists only as a mathematical entity, and mathematical entities, as we saw, do not have instances in the real world. EXCERPT #LYXGNG p. 26 With modern physics (since 1905), the relationship between common sense, physics and mathematics looks very different (see right hand panel of figure 10). Modern physics has no entities in the sense of BFO , because it relies on mathematics to define system elements, magnitudes and models. The latter are one and all mathematical entities, which have nothing corresponding to them in common-sense reality, the tuple (mathematical entity, measurement) is not discovered but rather declared. EXCERPT #6AEN9X p. 26 For example, an electron is a BFO:material entity which falls within the coverage domain of classical physics. But in quantum field theory (QFT), an electron is a probabilistic field quant and not a BFO entity of any sort. Because all system elements are made of matter, which is described in QFT using mathematical entities (non-universals), there are no QFT system elements that are BFO entities. All magnitudes in modern physics are grounded either in QFT or in the general theory of relativity (for phenomena which QFT cannot model). Yet all their magnitudes are mathematical entities which do not correspond to any natural universals, but are rather only a matter of entity-measurement tuples which we declare in the way described in section 2.2. Only in the model branch of the physics ontology is the relationship to mathematics and BFO the same in classical as in modern physics: there are no BFO entities in either case. EXCERPT #GPGHPL p. 26 EXCERPT #G5T5WQ p. 27 Classical physics Modern physics BFO = PhysO BFO \cap PhysO = \emptyset BFO \cap PhysO = PhysO \setminus MathO BFO \cap PhysO = \emptyset BFO \cap PhysO = \emptyset BFO \cap PhysO = \emptyset Venn diagram for Classical physics System element: a single white oval labeled 'System element'. Venn diagram for Modern physics System element: two overlapping ovals, the left one is white and labeled 'System element', the right one is grey. Venn diagram for Classical physics Magnitude: two overlapping ovals, the left one is white and labeled 'Magnitude', the right one is grey. Venn diagram for Modern physics Magnitude: two overlapping ovals, the left one is white and labeled 'Magnitude', the right one is grey. Venn diagram for Classical physics Model: two overlapping ovals, the left one is white and labeled 'Model', the right one is grey. Venn diagram for Modern physics Model: two overlapping ovals, the left one is white and labeled 'Model', the right one is grey. EXCERPT #UMHURW p. 27 Figure 10: Ontological relationships between common-sense ontology (BFO) and the physics and mathematics ontologies (PhysO and MathO) in classical and modern physics. PhysO: open set, MathO: filled set (grey). Relations between system element, magnitude and model not shown. EXCERPT #T3MA82 p. 27 DOCUMENT #GN66WW Ontologies of Common Sense, Physics and Mathematics SECTION #VPLR2G 6 Discussion EXCERPT #JPA9DL p. 28 The approach presented here differs in several ways from the current attempts to formulate an ontology of physics. The epistemological foundation of our view is that modern, mathematical physics as a science mediates between our perceptual experience of the world and mathematical a priori entities which are mind-dependent and do not exist outside the collective consisting of the minds of mathematicians. It is crucial to understand that such entities exist and to grasp their fundamental role as objects of human thinking as well as the ways we think of them and how we relate them to each other ontologically: not via Aristotelian genus-species-subsumption hierarchies, but using set-theoretical relations to describe their taxonomic relations (and otherwise using the full arsenal of mathematical relations). Because they essentially use the abstract entities of mathematics, the systems modelled by physics are abstractions of reality in mathematical form. When a physicist creates a model, he gives a description of a system which uses simplified system properties in order to enable the construction of a mathematical model. Once the mathematical model is available, purely mathematical reasoning processes such as variable substitution or term approximation can be used to refine it. EXCERPT #5F7LKE p. 28 In classical physics the model then has two roles. As a mathematical equation, it is an essential structure which the mathematician uses to manipulate the equation algebraically. But at the same time, it relates real-world magnitudes to each other inside systems. The fact that variables used in mathematical equations are both mathematical entities and represent real magnitudes enables classical physics to mediate between reality and mathematics. Modern theoretical physics, in contrast, cannot achieve this, as there are no available universals. Applied physics can be used to engineer technical systems that can be used to demonstrate the ability of the models to explain and predict aspects of nature. They thereby combine classical and modern physics. But even here the system elements from modern physics are not universals either, as we have seen. When engineers use modern physics for engineering, for example when building a laser, they combine instances of universals together to create technical devices using their knowledge of mathematical entities. EXCERPT #Z598KL p. 28 Our approach to physics ontology with the division of physics entities into systems, magnitudes and models reflects our understanding of the physicist's knowledge generation process. In classical physics, systems are selections from reality which are chosen and delimited as objects of scientific inquiry. Here, the magnitudes are universals. They mediate between the reality of the system and the idealised nature of the model. We saw that the harmonic oscillator model illustrates in which way we abstract from reality to create idealised models in physics, but the model can be refined to an extent that it can model reality very closely, for example, to yield the forced oscillator with damping that models a real electric circuit. Because the model uses Euclidean space ( \mathbb{R}^3 ) as phase space, we can easily imagine the relationship of the model to the sensory reality we perceive in our common-sense view of the world as an environment extending in three spatial and one temporal dimension. The magnitudes we use to link the model to reality can not only be imagined quite well, they can also be experienced: we can feel our own mass and the acceleration and force acting on our bodies, and we can feel the retraction of a spring and also the passing of time as our heart beats and as we breathe. EXCERPT #AYRYAE p. 28 EXCERPT #RB4EMC p. 29 With the second system, the entangled photons , we have again a system that really exists . But the model is to a much greater degree a creature of the mind, and though it models our measurements, it does not represent the real system. As we have shown, though the model defined by equation (4) has a physical state to which it relates, we do not understand it; in this special case, the model merely expresses the artificial information distribution (what we call ‘photon entanglement’) that we have created using parametric down-conversion with a machine . EXCERPT #DU4DCU p. 29 More generally speaking, in modern physics, models merely mediate between the mostly indirect measurement of system entities on one side and the highly abstract essential structures of mathematics on the other. The real part that remains are the measurements to which we have attributed mathematical magnitudes. But we have no universals. EXCERPT #J9PMGD p. 29 The mathematical knowledge stack that is needed to conceive and understand such models is quite deep and broad, and talented students usually need three to four years to acquire it. The model, as we have seen, can be understood only through the view of the mathematical entities it is made of, and even the one magnitude that it describes – the spin – cannot be imagined in the way that we think of magnitudes in classical physics using our natural, common-sense attitude. We cannot think that the particle turns on its own axis, though sometimes the spin is shown like this in textbooks as a pseudo-illustration. Rather, spin is really only a property that we can measure with complicated machines and which we model using quantum projectors (see 4.2.1.4). We cannot imagine this property: we can only think of it as a \mathcal{H} -space projector. EXCERPT #AHFFE5 p. 29 Therefore, post-classical physics cannot be ontologically represented using common-sense-based ontologies, but requires an ontology of mathematics which gives us a possibility of thinking about the ideal entities of it postulates. It is nevertheless a miracle of the human mind that we can use these entities to model and engineer useful machines such as the MRI, the laser, or quantum sensors. ### 56. Tool result: read DOCUMENT #9G4F42 CLASSIFYING PROCESSES: AN ESSAY IN APPLIED ONTOLOGY SECTION #MFJ4C2 Abstract EXCERPT #PDQ76S p. 0 We begin by describing recent developments in the burgeoning discipline of applied ontology, focusing especially on the ways ontologies are providing a means for the consistent representation of scientific data. We then introduce Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), a top-level ontology that is serving as domain-neutral framework for the development of lower level ontologies in many specialist disciplines, above all in biology and medicine. BFO is a bicategorical ontology, embracing both three-dimensionalist (continuant) and four-dimensionalist (occurent) perspectives within a single framework. We examine how BFO-conformant domain ontologies can deal with the consistent representation of scientific data deriving from the measurement of processes of different types, and we outline on this basis the first steps of an approach to the classification of such processes within the BFO framework. 1 DOCUMENT #9G4F42 CLASSIFYING PROCESSES: AN ESSAY IN APPLIED ONTOLOGY SECTION #T82MXT 5. Conclusion: Towards an Ontology of Time Series Graphs EXCERPT #M5A3DM p. 10 We have dealt in the foregoing with only a small selection of the ways in which processes can be classified through division into types and subtypes. One important next step will deal with the ways in which such classification is complicated by the fact that processes are embedded within a series of larger process wholes, each nested within yet larger process wholes. Thus when a billiard ball is moving across a table, we can focus on the ball's motion relative to the table, but we can also focus on the larger process which is the motion of the body-table system relative to the motion of the earth; or we can focus on the motion of the body-table-earth system relative to the movement of the sun; and so forth. EXCERPT #2HWQG8 p. 10 EXCERPT #CZG72U p. 10 EXCERPT #JH45LF p. 10 EXCERPT #7XXSYN p. 10 EXCERPT #ERFP6G p. 11 EXCERPT #SXJ5P7 p. 11 EXCERPT #S3MXPP p. 11 Human physiological processes, too, are embedded within series of larger wholes in this way. When studying the heart, for example, physiologists may investigate processes within the interior of the left ventricle, interactions between the left ventricle and other parts of the cardiovascular system, interactions between this system and other bodily systems, and so on. Physiologists may be interested in the processes involving multiple organisms; for example they may be interested in some given organism as part of one or other larger whole which includes some population of organisms of a relevant similar type (all humans, all human babies of a given birth weight, all athletes, and so on). Normal processes are defined for this larger population (as normal qualities were defined above), and deviations from this norm are defined for the single organism relative thereto. EXCERPT #UZPG62 p. 11 A further application of the theory of process profiles will include the development of an ontology of time series graphs in terms of a view of process profiles as the truthmakers for such graphs. On this basis we will then explore how the ontology of process profiles might throw light on the semantics of differential equations and of the various mathematical models of dynamic systems in physics, biology and other disciplines constructed on their basis. 44 EXCERPT #X8PQKH p. 11 We will investigate also how the theory can be applied not merely to quantitative information artifacts but also to other sorts of symbolic representations of processes, as for instance when a chess game is represented in one or other of the standard chess notations, or when a symphony performance is represented in a score. Interestingly, this score itself serves also to provide the set of instructions for the unfolding performance, and we shall explore also ways in which the idea of process profiles may help to throw light on how such planned processes depend on, and are at the same represented by, the plans or protocols which define them. ### 57. Tool result: read DOCUMENT #BV47YZ On Drawing Lines on a Map SECTION #HFGR59 Abstract EXCERPT #DF6TXL p. 0 The paper is an exercise in descriptive ontology, with specific applications to problems in the geographical sphere. It presents a general typology of spatial boundaries, based in particular on an opposition between bona fide or physical boundaries on the one hand, and fiat or human-demarcation-induced boundaries on the other. Cross-cutting this opposition are further oppositions in the realm of boundaries, for example between: crisp and indeterminate, complete and incomplete, enduring and transient, symmetrical and asymmetrical. The resulting typology generates a corresponding categorization of the different sorts of objects which (complete) boundaries determine or demarcate. The theory is applied first of all in the areas of geography and of administrative and property law. Indications are then given as to how the typology may be applied also in other fields where physical and fiat boundaries are at work, including the field of cognitive linguistics and the related field of the ontology of truth. DOCUMENT #BV47YZ On Drawing Lines on a Map SECTION #VDUZ23 A Coda on Truth and Against Model-Theoretic Semantics EXCERPT #CLMXCT p. 8 There is, if one will, a windowing of reality that is effected by our uses of language, especially of those descriptive uses of language which are involved in the making of true empirical judgments. The ephemeral fiat boundaries effected through declarative sentences are indeed, or so I will now argue, analogous to the ephemeral boundaries of the visible fields associated with acts of visual perception. This analogy in its turn suggests a new understanding of that relation between judgment and world we call 'truth'. This relation has classically been understood in terms of a 'correspondence' or isomorphism between a judgment or assertion on the one hand and a certain portion of reality on the other. The central difficulty standing in the way of this classical theory turned on the fact that reality evidently does not come ready-parcelled into judgment- or sentence-shaped portions that would be predisposed to stand in relations of correspondence of the suggested sort. It is for this reason that many practitioners of logical or truth-functional semantics have tended, disastrously, to treat not of truth as such (understood as truth to an independent worldly reality), but rather of what they call truth in a model , where the model is a specially constructed set-theoretic reality-surrogate whose relation to reality itself is left unspecified. EXCERPT #9BD22B p. 8 The theory of ephemeral fiat boundaries and of the windowing of reality in language can help us to avoid the need for this resort to surrogates by allowing us to treat judgment itself as a sui generis variety of drawing fiat boundaries around entities in reality of a precisely appropriate (truth-making) sort: veridical judgments then stand to fiat judgment-correlates as acts of veridical perception stand to the visible field. Each true empirical judgment can be seen, in this light, as effecting a division of reality in fiat fashion into two disjoint regions: EXCERPT #5PWRM2 p. 8 – a first, truth-making region, consisting of those entities that are relevant to the truth of the judgment in question, – a complementary region, consisting of those entities not so involved EXCERPT #Y2X28T p. 8 Truth itself can then be defined as the relation of correspondence between a judgment and its corresponding truth-making region, in such a way that a true judgment would be something like a map of the corresponding portion of reality. A Jeffersonian view of truth along these lines – for all its superficial strangeness – can be seen on inspection to enjoy a degree of phenomenological, linguistic and ontological adequacy that is higher than standardly available accounts. Its phenomenological adequacy derives from the fact that the account of windowing of reality via language is of a piece with an account of perceptual windowing, so that a theory of evidence, of verification and falsification in perceptual acts, is available from the start. Its linguistic adequacy derives from the fact that the view imposes no unitary logical form (the form of functional application) upon our judgments, but is sensitive, rather, to the wide range of different natural-language sentence forms which are utilized in making true judgments, forms whose corresponding demarcatory effects have been described in detail in the work of cognitive linguists (see especially Langacker 1987/1991). Its ontological adequacy, finally, derives from the fact that the view in question – which after all that has been said we might refer to as the Jeffersonian theory of truth – is able to do justice to the untidy, flesh-and-blood character of the reality to which our judgments are directed. ### 58. Assistant tool calls #### Tool call: `generate_image` ```json { "prompt": "Editorial cover artwork for a scholarly work on ontological foundations of geographic information science. A luminous topographic landscape seen from an oblique aerial view is overlaid with several translucent conceptual layers: rivers, roads, parcels, settlements, weather fields, and nested scales aligning into one coherent atlas. Fine geometric lines and softly glowing nodes suggest formal axioms and interoperable data without showing computer screens. Deep teal, moss green, ochre, and ivory; precise cartographic engraving blended with contemporary scientific illustration; elegant, contemplative, high detail, portrait composition, no words, no letters, no logos." } ``` #### Tool call: `generate_image` ```json { "prompt": "Editorial cover artwork for a philosophical geography essay titled conceptually around agglomerations. Show many scattered human, biological, architectural, and cultural forms across an expansive terrain—an archipelago, migrating birds, clustered houses, distant crowds, and constellations of lights—held together by subtle arcs and fields of affinity despite spatial separation. Boundaries are porous and overlapping, with diasporic islands forming a recognizable whole. Muted earth colors with ultramarine and warm red accents; sophisticated collage-meets-mereotopological diagram; portrait composition, no text, no labels, no logos." } ``` #### Tool call: `generate_image` ```json { "prompt": "Scholarly editorial cover artwork about objects and their environments, moving from Aristotle to ecological ontology. Center a human figure and an animal nested within concentric lived settings: body, room, gathering, building, path, city, forest, atmosphere. Physical objects and patterns of behavior fit together like interlocking ecological niches; thresholds and surfaces glow gently to show boundaries and mutual affordances. Classical fresco geometry merged with modern ecological field illustration, sandstone, sage, indigo, and soft gold; richly layered portrait composition, no words, no logos." } ``` #### Tool call: `generate_image` ```json { "prompt": "Medical ontology cover artwork depicting the human body as a spatial-functional hierarchy. A translucent anatomical silhouette contains nested modular systems—heart and vessels, lungs, nerves, organs, cells and mitochondria—connected by elegant branching flows that show how structure enables function across scales. The systems overlap without becoming a generic anatomy chart; spatial parts and dynamic processes are visually fused. Clean scientific illustration with cobalt, crimson, turquoise, and warm ivory on a dark field; precise, luminous, portrait orientation, no labels, no text, no logos." } ``` #### Tool call: `generate_image` ```json { "prompt": "Editorial cover artwork for a study of ontology and geographic kinds. Show a vast landscape where mountains, rivers, coastlines, valleys, settlements, and administrative regions emerge through different kinds of boundaries: sharp physical edges, soft gradient zones, and fine human-drawn divisions. Several translucent layers distinguish real terrain, cognitive categories, and cartographic representation while remaining aligned. Mereological nested parts and topological contacts are subtly diagrammed. Refined atlas aesthetic, slate blue, rust, moss, parchment; portrait composition, no words, no map labels, no logos." } ``` #### Tool call: `generate_image` ```json { "prompt": "Conceptual editorial cover artwork about drawing boundaries. A continuous world of sea, stone, forest, city, bodies, and property is crossed by two visibly different families of edges: natural discontinuities such as coastlines and membranes, and luminous precise human-demarcated lines that create parcels, political zones, personal space, and conceptual regions. Some lines are crisp, others vague or scattered. Contemporary philosophical illustration with cartographic and ecological detail, charcoal, sea green, coral, and gold; portrait composition, no text, no labels, no logos." } ``` #### Tool call: `generate_image` ```json { "prompt": "Editorial cover artwork about making space through natural, cultural, cognitive, and social niches. Show an abstract legal line first appearing as a luminous route in open terrain, then gradually materializing into a highway, park boundary, gathering place, and patterns of human activity. Past, present, and projected future overlap as transparent spatial layers; speech and social acts are suggested by expanding geometric fields, not written symbols. Elegant cinematic scientific illustration, dusk blues, amber, green, and ivory; portrait composition, no words, no logos." } ``` #### Tool call: `generate_image` ```json { "prompt": "Scholarly cover artwork comparing ontologies of common sense, classical physics, modern physics, and mathematics. On the left, tangible objects—a spring oscillator, falling body, measuring instruments—inhabit clear Euclidean space; toward the right they dissolve into abstract quantum fields, Hilbert-space-like planes, probability clouds, and crystalline mathematical structures. A narrow bridge of measurements connects lived reality to abstraction. Intellectually rigorous, elegant scientific surrealism, midnight blue, white, copper, and electric violet; portrait composition, no equations, no text, no logos." } ``` #### Tool call: `generate_image` ```json { "prompt": "Editorial cover artwork for an applied ontology of classifying processes. Show dynamic processes as layered flowing ribbons through time—heartbeat, motion, rotation, growth, and cyclical waves—each casting a clean measurable profile onto a series of graph-like planes. Nested processes sit inside larger processes from cell to organism to planet, unified by a precise ontological scaffold. Modern scientific data-art, dark navy background with cyan, amber, magenta, and white trajectories; crisp portrait composition, no numbers, no words, no logos." } ``` #### Tool call: `generate_image` ```json { "prompt": "Philosophical cartography cover artwork about drawing lines on a map. An old yet timeless map surface shows coastlines, rivers, mountain ridges, property parcels, and geopolitical borders, with natural bona fide boundaries rendered as textured physical breaks and fiat boundaries as fine luminous strokes laid across continuous terrain. Some borders are crisp, others fading, transient, incomplete, or scattered; one line opens a window onto the living reality beneath the map. Sophisticated engraved-map style with contemporary color, ink black, parchment, teal, and vermilion; portrait composition, no text, no labels, no logos." } ``` ### 59. Tool result: generate_image GENERATED IMAGE #2F9EYB URL: /images/2F9EYB Model: gpt-image-2 Prompt: Editorial cover artwork for a scholarly work on ontological foundations of geographic information science. A luminous topographic landscape seen from an oblique aerial view is overlaid with several translucent conceptual layers: rivers, roads, parcels, settlements, weather fields, and nested scales aligning into one coherent atlas. Fine geometric lines and softly glowing nodes suggest formal axioms and interoperable data without showing computer screens. Deep teal, moss green, ochre, and ivory; precise cartographic engraving blended with contemporary scientific illustration; elegant, contemplative, high detail, portrait composition, no words, no letters, no logos. ### 60. Tool result: generate_image GENERATED IMAGE #6R4RXD URL: /images/6R4RXD Model: gpt-image-2 Prompt: Editorial cover artwork for a philosophical geography essay titled conceptually around agglomerations. Show many scattered human, biological, architectural, and cultural forms across an expansive terrain—an archipelago, migrating birds, clustered houses, distant crowds, and constellations of lights—held together by subtle arcs and fields of affinity despite spatial separation. Boundaries are porous and overlapping, with diasporic islands forming a recognizable whole. Muted earth colors with ultramarine and warm red accents; sophisticated collage-meets-mereotopological diagram; portrait composition, no text, no labels, no logos. ### 61. Tool result: generate_image GENERATED IMAGE #VYGXED URL: /images/VYGXED Model: gpt-image-2 Prompt: Scholarly editorial cover artwork about objects and their environments, moving from Aristotle to ecological ontology. Center a human figure and an animal nested within concentric lived settings: body, room, gathering, building, path, city, forest, atmosphere. Physical objects and patterns of behavior fit together like interlocking ecological niches; thresholds and surfaces glow gently to show boundaries and mutual affordances. Classical fresco geometry merged with modern ecological field illustration, sandstone, sage, indigo, and soft gold; richly layered portrait composition, no words, no logos. ### 62. Tool result: generate_image GENERATED IMAGE #AD2ZTA URL: /images/AD2ZTA Model: gpt-image-2 Prompt: Medical ontology cover artwork depicting the human body as a spatial-functional hierarchy. A translucent anatomical silhouette contains nested modular systems—heart and vessels, lungs, nerves, organs, cells and mitochondria—connected by elegant branching flows that show how structure enables function across scales. The systems overlap without becoming a generic anatomy chart; spatial parts and dynamic processes are visually fused. Clean scientific illustration with cobalt, crimson, turquoise, and warm ivory on a dark field; precise, luminous, portrait orientation, no labels, no text, no logos. ### 63. Tool result: generate_image GENERATED IMAGE #B7SK7Y URL: /images/B7SK7Y Model: gpt-image-2 Prompt: Editorial cover artwork for a study of ontology and geographic kinds. Show a vast landscape where mountains, rivers, coastlines, valleys, settlements, and administrative regions emerge through different kinds of boundaries: sharp physical edges, soft gradient zones, and fine human-drawn divisions. Several translucent layers distinguish real terrain, cognitive categories, and cartographic representation while remaining aligned. Mereological nested parts and topological contacts are subtly diagrammed. Refined atlas aesthetic, slate blue, rust, moss, parchment; portrait composition, no words, no map labels, no logos. ### 64. Tool result: generate_image GENERATED IMAGE #3WXPAT URL: /images/3WXPAT Model: gpt-image-2 Prompt: Conceptual editorial cover artwork about drawing boundaries. A continuous world of sea, stone, forest, city, bodies, and property is crossed by two visibly different families of edges: natural discontinuities such as coastlines and membranes, and luminous precise human-demarcated lines that create parcels, political zones, personal space, and conceptual regions. Some lines are crisp, others vague or scattered. Contemporary philosophical illustration with cartographic and ecological detail, charcoal, sea green, coral, and gold; portrait composition, no text, no labels, no logos. ### 65. Tool result: generate_image GENERATED IMAGE #BC6CPN URL: /images/BC6CPN Model: gpt-image-2 Prompt: Editorial cover artwork about making space through natural, cultural, cognitive, and social niches. Show an abstract legal line first appearing as a luminous route in open terrain, then gradually materializing into a highway, park boundary, gathering place, and patterns of human activity. Past, present, and projected future overlap as transparent spatial layers; speech and social acts are suggested by expanding geometric fields, not written symbols. Elegant cinematic scientific illustration, dusk blues, amber, green, and ivory; portrait composition, no words, no logos. ### 66. Tool result: generate_image GENERATED IMAGE #QSTGH3 URL: /images/QSTGH3 Model: gpt-image-2 Prompt: Scholarly cover artwork comparing ontologies of common sense, classical physics, modern physics, and mathematics. On the left, tangible objects—a spring oscillator, falling body, measuring instruments—inhabit clear Euclidean space; toward the right they dissolve into abstract quantum fields, Hilbert-space-like planes, probability clouds, and crystalline mathematical structures. A narrow bridge of measurements connects lived reality to abstraction. Intellectually rigorous, elegant scientific surrealism, midnight blue, white, copper, and electric violet; portrait composition, no equations, no text, no logos. ### 67. Tool result: generate_image GENERATED IMAGE #F5VHVW URL: /images/F5VHVW Model: gpt-image-2 Prompt: Editorial cover artwork for an applied ontology of classifying processes. Show dynamic processes as layered flowing ribbons through time—heartbeat, motion, rotation, growth, and cyclical waves—each casting a clean measurable profile onto a series of graph-like planes. Nested processes sit inside larger processes from cell to organism to planet, unified by a precise ontological scaffold. Modern scientific data-art, dark navy background with cyan, amber, magenta, and white trajectories; crisp portrait composition, no numbers, no words, no logos. ### 68. Tool result: generate_image GENERATED IMAGE #XDNNJP URL: /images/XDNNJP Model: gpt-image-2 Prompt: Philosophical cartography cover artwork about drawing lines on a map. An old yet timeless map surface shows coastlines, rivers, mountain ridges, property parcels, and geopolitical borders, with natural bona fide boundaries rendered as textured physical breaks and fiat boundaries as fine luminous strokes laid across continuous terrain. Some borders are crisp, others fading, transient, incomplete, or scattered; one line opens a window onto the living reality beneath the map. Sophisticated engraved-map style with contemporary color, ink black, parchment, teal, and vermilion; portrait composition, no text, no labels, no logos. ### 69. Assistant tool calls #### Tool call: `update_document_metadata` ```json { "cover_image_id": "2F9EYB", "document_id": "D8LRQM", "folder": "ontology", "micro_abstract": "Sets a research agenda for geospatial ontology, linking formal accounts of geographic objects, processes, scale, and vagueness to human concepts, interoperable data, and ontology-driven GIS." } ``` #### Tool call: `update_document_metadata` ```json { "cover_image_id": "6R4RXD", "document_id": "E5CLFY", "folder": "ontology", "micro_abstract": "Defines agglomerations as geographically dispersed yet unified aggregates—populations, cultures, organizations, and diasporas—and develops a realist mereotopology for their boundaries, identity, and change." } ``` #### Tool call: `update_document_metadata` ```json { "cover_image_id": "VYGXED", "document_id": "B98HVX", "folder": "ontology", "micro_abstract": "Extends Aristotelian substance–accident ontology into a realist theory of behavioral settings and ecological niches as nested, bounded wholes in which organisms, objects, and activities mutually fit." } ``` #### Tool call: `update_document_metadata` ```json { "cover_image_id": "AD2ZTA", "document_id": "3CCZ4A", "folder": "ontology", "micro_abstract": "Integrates anatomy and physiology by modeling the body as a nested spatial-functional hierarchy whose parts are demarcated as system elements through the functions they bear and realize." } ``` #### Tool call: `update_document_metadata` ```json { "cover_image_id": "B7SK7Y", "document_id": "WYP3G6", "folder": "ontology", "micro_abstract": "Argues that geographic kinds are intrinsically spatial and boundary-centered, requiring mereology and topology to connect physical reality, cultural categorization, cognition, and GIS representation." } ``` #### Tool call: `update_document_metadata` ```json { "cover_image_id": "3WXPAT", "document_id": "KSESR8", "folder": "ontology", "micro_abstract": "Updates the distinction between human-demarcated fiat boundaries and physically grounded bona fide boundaries, tracing its uses in geography, property, ecology, and Basic Formal Ontology." } ``` #### Tool call: `update_document_metadata` ```json { "cover_image_id": "BC6CPN", "document_id": "KG5TBB", "folder": "ontology", "micro_abstract": "Shows how legal decisions, plans, historical reasoning, and language create fiat spatial and spatiotemporal entities, then draws limits and practical lessons for ontology-supported AI." } ``` #### Tool call: `update_document_metadata` ```json { "cover_image_id": "QSTGH3", "document_id": "GN66WW", "folder": "ontology", "micro_abstract": "Separates upper ontologies for common sense, physics, and mathematics, arguing that classical models connect measurable universals to reality while modern physics depends on mathematical entities without commonsense counterparts." } ``` #### Tool call: `update_document_metadata` ```json { "cover_image_id": "F5VHVW", "document_id": "9G4F42", "folder": "ontology", "micro_abstract": "Extends Basic Formal Ontology to scientific process data through process profiles—quality, rate, and cyclical aspects that ground measurements, time-series graphs, and representations of dynamic systems." } ``` #### Tool call: `update_document_metadata` ```json { "cover_image_id": "XDNNJP", "document_id": "BV47YZ", "folder": "ontology", "micro_abstract": "Builds a typology of spatial boundaries around the fiat–bona fide distinction, applying it to maps, political and property divisions, scattered objects, linguistic framing, and truthmakers." } ``` ### 70. Tool result: update_document_metadata Updated metadata for #D8LRQM: cover_image_id, folder, micro_abstract ### 71. Tool result: update_document_metadata Updated metadata for #E5CLFY: cover_image_id, folder, micro_abstract ### 72. Tool result: update_document_metadata Updated metadata for #B98HVX: cover_image_id, folder, micro_abstract ### 73. Tool result: update_document_metadata Updated metadata for #3CCZ4A: cover_image_id, folder, micro_abstract ### 74. Tool result: update_document_metadata Updated metadata for #WYP3G6: cover_image_id, folder, micro_abstract ### 75. Tool result: update_document_metadata Updated metadata for #KSESR8: cover_image_id, folder, micro_abstract ### 76. Tool result: update_document_metadata Updated metadata for #KG5TBB: cover_image_id, folder, micro_abstract ### 77. Tool result: update_document_metadata Updated metadata for #GN66WW: cover_image_id, folder, micro_abstract ### 78. Tool result: update_document_metadata Updated metadata for #9G4F42: cover_image_id, folder, micro_abstract ### 79. Tool result: update_document_metadata Updated metadata for #BV47YZ: cover_image_id, folder, micro_abstract ### 80. Assistant Completed for all 10 articles: - Moved into the **ontology** folder. - Added corpus-grounded micro-abstracts. - Generated and assigned individual cover artworks. | Document | Cover | |---|---| | #D8LRQM | #2F9EYB | | #E5CLFY | #6R4RXD | | #B98HVX | #VYGXED | | #3CCZ4A | #AD2ZTA | | #WYP3G6 | #B7SK7Y | | #KSESR8 | #3WXPAT | | #KG5TBB | #BC6CPN | | #GN66WW | #QSTGH3 | | #9G4F42 | #F5VHVW | | #BV47YZ | #XDNNJP |