Alberto Pepe edited Suppose_a_process_were.tex  over 11 years ago

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Suppose a process were to take a path through an RDF graph that included such concepts as Marko's publications, the members of the Center for Nonlinear Studies, his collaborations with the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, and the various conferences he has attended. Given this set of experiences, the process has built up a mental model of Marko that primarily includes those aspects of his life that are scholarly.\footnote{It is noted that Marko is a complex concept and includes not only his academic life, but also his personal, business, hobby, etc. lives.} More generally, the process has been pigeonholed into a scholarly ``frame of mind". Without any context, if that process were to inquire about the people that Marko knows (e.g.~$(\ttt{lanl:marko}, \ttt{foaf:knows}, ?o)$), (e.g. (\texttt{lanl:marko}, \texttt{foaf:knows}, ?o)),  it would learn that Marko knows both Alberto and Carole. However, given the context of the process (i.e.~the history as represented by its traversed subgraph), it will interpret ``knowing" with respect to those people that Marko knows in a scholastic sense. Given Alberto and Carole, Marko knows Alberto in a scholarly manner, which is not true of Carole. There is little to nothing in Marko and Carole's $T_y$ that makes reference to anything scholarly. However, in Marko and Alberto's $T_x$, the whole premise of their relationship is scholarly.