Conceptual Structures in LEADing

and Best Enterprise Practices

Simon Polovina1, Mark von Rosing2, and Wim Laurier3

1Conceptual Structures Research Group Sheffield Hallam University, UK2LEADing Practice ApS, Denmark

3Université Saint-Louis – Bruxelles, Belguim

Universiteit Gent, Belguim

Outline• LEADing Practice

• Concepts of:

– Enterprise, Architecture, Models

• Semiotic

– Peirce

• Semantics

– as a ‘Rule of 3’

• Tools

– Protégé Frames, RDF(S): Essential

– CS: CoGui (CGs), CGFCA

• Questions

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LEADing and Best Practice(s)

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LEADing practitioners

Fortune 500 Governments

Other Standard Organizations

Software Vendors

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Enterprise

• “Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.

Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life

and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.” (Star

Trek, quotes)

• Origin: late Middle English: from Old French, 'something undertaken',

feminine past participle (used as a noun) of entreprendre, based on

Latin prendere, prehendere 'to take‘ (OED)

• An undertaking, especially one of some scope, complication, and risk

(thefreedictionary.com)

• A business organization (thefreedictionary.com)

• You and me

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Architecture

• The art or practice of designing and constructing

buildings (OED)

• The complex or carefully designed structure of

something (OED)

• The conceptual structure and logical organization of a

computer or computer-based system (OED)

• Winchester Mystery House

• “From the blank piece of paper to the last nail in the wall”

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Models

• Dictionary.com…

• “All Models are Wrong, But Some are Useful” (Box, 1987)

• “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler than that” (attr. Einstein)

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Sowa, 2002

Lanir (2012)

Peirce's Triadic

Objects Create Signs

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Context (Domain)

Semantics, as a ‘Rule of 3’

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Object Objectrelation

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Laurier & Poels (2012)

Polovina (2007)

w3c.org

Performance Meta Model, leadingpractice.com

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Polovina (2007)

w3c.org

leadingpractice.com

Laurier & Poels (2012)

Essential

Essential Import

Utility

Essential

Modeller in

Protégé

Essential

Viewer

Semantic MappingHow spreadsheet maps to EMM

Knowledge BaseClasses and Instances of EMM

ViewsDynamically rendered

from knowledge base

snapshot

UpdateUpload Publish

EMM = Essential Meta

Model

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CoGUI

Essential RDF

XML transformer

Protégé

RDF/S XML

RDF/S XML Updated Conceptual

Graphs

RDF/S XML mapped to

Frames definitions of

Essential Meta Model

Classes, Slots and

Instances updated in

Protégé knowledgebase

1. Import ‘natural’ RDFS the RDFS file

= vocabulary

2. Import ‘natural’ RDFS the RDF file

= facts

Mapping from RDF to Frames:

[Class] -> (slot) -> [Class]

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Conceptual

Structures

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And finally…

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QuestionsQuestions

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References

Box, G. (1987, p.424) In: Box, G. &

Draper, N.R. (1987) . Empirical Model-

Building and Response Surfaces, Wiley

Series in Probability and Statistics

Lanir, L. (2012). Charles Sanders Peirce’s

Semiotics – The Triadic Model,

http://www.decodedscience.com/charles-

sanders-peirces-semiotics-the-triadic-

model/22974, December 27, 2012

Laurier, W., & Poels, G. (2012). Ontology-

Based Structuring of Conceptual Data

Modeling Patterns. Journal of Database

Management (JDM), 23(3), 50-64.

Polovina, S. (2007) An Introduction to

Conceptual Graphs, Conceptual

Structures: Knowledge Architectures for

Smart Applications, July 2007, Sheffield,

UK, 1-15.

Sowa, J. (2002). Representing Knowledge

Soup in Language and Logic,

http://www.jfsowa.com/talks/souprepr.htm

Stamper, R. (1997). Organisational

semiotics. Information systems: An

emerging discipline, McGraw Hill, London,

267-283.

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