States of Distributed Objects in Conceptual Semantic Systems

• Published in: Conceptual Structures: Common Semantics for Sharing Knowledge pp. 250 - 266
• Main Author: Wolff, Karl Erich
• Format: Book Chapter Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005; Springer
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Artificial intelligence; Computer science; control theory; systems; Exact sciences and technology; Learning and adaptive systems; Grain size; Knowledge engineering; Spatial data structures; Quantum system; Probabilistic approach; Information system; Wave packet; Semantics; Object oriented; Knowledge representation; Distributed system

Our classical understanding of objects in spatiotemporal systems is based on the idea that such an object is at each moment at exactly one place. As long as the notions of “moment” and “place” are not made explicit in their granularity the meaning of that idea is not clear. It became clear by the in...