Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Anticipatory Web discussionà [home]
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Community Centric Service Methodology Glass Bead Games
(this
page is under development)
(comments
to these two problems will be posted)
Reto (and Brahmananda) asked:
* what do you expect to be the interfaces of FSM?
* do you expect the interfaces to interlink triple graphs of different namespaces?
The interfaces of a finite state machine need to provide interoperability if the interaction is to another FSM, or set of FSMs. My reading of the theory (mathematics) leads me to assert that a system of interoperable FSM is a FSM. However, these FSM must also interoperate with a real world where not only humans but system failures can lead to non-interoperability and thus to something that is not what a FSM is supposed to be. This is the core issue that pragmatics and formative ontology is designed to address.
Let us take the definition that a system of states and transitions between states is a FSM if and only if any transitions of any state is a state. I will not write this formally, but it is simple.
If one develops, as is being done in the Semantic Web activity, a large number of FSMs each with a namespace identifier, then the union of all states will be a FSM if the namespace identifier is used to maintain the closure of state transitions.
Additional material I developed in 1999
http://www.bcngroup.org/area3/pprueitt/forms.htm#_Section_3:_Transmission,
for
the purpose of this discussion, I edited a two page section form the 1999 paper
and posted at
communityCentric/complexDataTransmission.htm