A Top-Level Categorization of Types of Granularity

Keet, C. Maria

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“…One can switch between the different granular representations of a given type of material entity and can distinguish them although they refer to the same type of entity. Which representation is used for referring to a real world entity results from the combination of the entity type and the scale or level of granularity at which it is considered ( [19] ; see sgrG granularity type, [27] , [38] ).…”

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Accommodating Ontologies to Biological Reality—Top-Level Categories of Cumulative-Constitutively Organized Material Entities

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BackgroundThe Basic Formal Ontology (BFO) is a top-level formal foundational ontology for the biomedical domain. It has been developed with the purpose to serve as an ontologically consistent template for top-level categories of application oriented and domain reference ontologies within the Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies Foundry (OBO). BFO is important for enabling OBO ontologies to facilitate in reliably communicating and managing data and metadata within and across biomedical databases. Following its intended single inheritance policy, BFO's three top-level categories of material entity (i.e. ‘object’, ‘fiat object part’, ‘object aggregate’) must be exhaustive and mutually disjoint. We have shown elsewhere that for accommodating all types of constitutively organized material entities, BFO must be extended by additional categories of material entity.Methodology/Principal FindingsUnfortunately, most biomedical material entities are cumulative-constitutively organized. We show that even the extended BFO does not exhaustively cover cumulative-constitutively organized material entities. We provide examples from biology and everyday life that demonstrate the necessity for ‘portion of matter’ as another material building block. This implies the necessity for further extending BFO by ‘portion of matter’ as well as three additional categories that possess portions of matter as aggregate components. These extensions are necessary if the basic assumption that all parts that share the same granularity level exhaustively sum to the whole should also apply to cumulative-constitutively organized material entities. By suggesting a notion of granular representation we provide a way to maintain the single inheritance principle when dealing with cumulative-constitutively organized material entities.Conclusions/SignificanceWe suggest to extend BFO to incorporate additional categories of material entity and to rearrange its top-level material entity taxonomy. With these additions and the notion of granular representation, BFO would exhaustively cover all top-level types of material entities that application oriented ontologies may use as templates, while still maintaining the single inheritance principle.

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Accommodating Ontologies to Biological Reality—Top-Level Categories of Cumulative-Constitutively Organized Material Entities

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“…Analyses of the definitions of space-related granularity (Wu and Marceau, 2002, p. 3;Wolak, 2011, p. 248;Keet, 2010) suggest expanding the notion of granularity also to other substrates such as time, (economic) sectors and thematic scopes. The present chapter undertakes to suggest approaches to such untypical types of the notion "granularity".…”

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Forward looking needs systematised megatrends in suitable granularity

Ahamer

2014

Campus-Wide Information Systems

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to inquire about the applicability of the concept of granularity to the necessity of future research or -as often called in the European Union -forward looking (FL). After theoretical deliberation, it uses a planned world-wide information system as a case study for applying the notion of granularity regarding economic sectors, time steps, geographic regions and correlations for energy, water, land use and several other drivers of global change. Design/methodology/approach -A planet-wide information system might optimally include areas such as human development indicators, water demand and supply and deforestation issues. A short literature analysis on "granularity" shows this concept to have a highly culturally determined and constructivist nature. Findings -The spatial, temporal and sectoral granularity of data presentation strongly impacts conclusions and considerations while looking forward. Hence, granularity issues are of key importance for the question of which megatrends are ultimately discerned as most relevant. Practical implications -These findings may impact the regular report on global megatrends authored by the European Environment Agency, as well as world-wide energy and emission scenarios and technological foresight, such as the "Global Change Data Base" as a next step of research. Social implications -In future research, the step from purely quantitative perceptions towards structural perceptions, pattern recognition and understanding of system transitions might be facilitated. The FL statements of larger companies might be diversified, enlarged in scope and use deeper structural understanding. Originality/value -Earlier databases tend to have been focused on one or several single disciplines; the present approach, however, attempts transdisciplinarity and a multiparadigmatic approach.

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“…A granular perspective is formed by combining a specific type of granulation and a granulation criterion . A granulation criterion represents a combination of at least two properties, while the granulation type refers to one of many granulation types, with qualitative and quantitative granulations being the most basic . From the granular perspective, an aspect can contain one or more perspectives within itself.…”

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Extending a communication service provider's operations management based on knowledge granules and aspects derived from imperfect information

Dragun

Bogunović

2019

Int J Communication

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The core of a communication service provider's business revolves around servicerelated operations management, usually relying strongly on expert knowledge built inside the company. Knowledge representation in this environment inevitably requires addressing various domains. Team members working on common tasks bring domain diversity to their teams due to their various ontological areas of expertise. All team members must attain an acceptable level of knowledge regarding other domains to reach a team's desired level of effectiveness. This paper provides a novel way of linking divergent domain ontologies to facilitate and enrich service management in the communication service provider environment. The typical service provider infrastructure offers an extensive source of information for deriving knowledge regarding services, but the information is generally imperfect, inconsistent, and incomplete. Introducing a granular approach based on rough sets applicable to this imperfect information enables fractional management, which together with multiaspect formalisms enables the derivation of the specificity of a certain domain from a common source of knowledge without interference from other domains. A case study illustrates the implementation of an intelligent communication service and network management system based on the contexts used for assisting service strategies. The implementation empirically justifies the proposed approach.KEYWORDS aspects, imperfect information, knowledge granules, knowledge management, service operations management 1 | INTRODUCTION Communication service providers (CSPs) attempt to incorporate many disciplines into their daily service providing processes to differentiate themselves in the market. This incorporation involves broadening the set of standard telecomrelated domains by introducing new domains necessary to produce new content and to enrich existing portfolios. The final goal of these activities is to improve the CSP's service quality. However, despite many advantages of a multidisciplinary approach, stemming mostly from the fact that diversity results in greater versatility when providing services, substantial challenges exist under these conditions. Because introducing various disciplines requires bringing in experts from those disciplines to work together to provide the related services, functional teams covering all necessary domains

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A Top-Level Categorization of Types of Granularity

Cited by 4 publications

References 71 publications

Accommodating Ontologies to Biological Reality—Top-Level Categories of Cumulative-Constitutively Organized Material Entities

Accommodating Ontologies to Biological Reality—Top-Level Categories of Cumulative-Constitutively Organized Material Entities

Forward looking needs systematised megatrends in suitable granularity

Extending a communication service provider's operations management based on knowledge granules and aspects derived from imperfect information

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