Semantic Integration in the Information Flow Framework
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چکیده
The Information Flow Framework (IFF) [1] is a descriptive category metatheory currently under development, which is being offered as the structural aspect of the Standard Upper Ontology (SUO). The architecture of the IFF is composed of metalevels, namespaces and meta-ontologies. The main application of the IFF is institutional: the notion of institutions and their morphisms are being axiomatized in the upper metalevels of the IFF, and the lower metalevel of the IFF has axiomatized various institutions in which semantic integration has a natural expression as the colimit of theories. Some of the ideas used in this paper first appeared in papers by Joseph Goguen [2] and the author [3], and discussions on the SUO email list. See also the companion paper [4].
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