The act of discrimination is a decision that affects the rights third parties. Undoubtedly, its exercise and materialisation are disastrous. However, would it be possible to discriminate against person without facing legal consequences? This work opens space explain there situations in which carried out validated, justified usefulness preserve titled property considered as fundamental right or ...

A basic claim of this paper is that the foundational theoretical problem of the social sciences the possibility of unconscious, unplanned forms of cooperation and intelligence among intentional agents (the very hard issue of the ‘invisible hand’, of the ‘spontaneous social order’ but also of ‘social functions’)will eventually be clarified thanks to the contribution of AI (and in particular of c...

This paper proposes a holistic teleology-based modeling framework for product-related processes named FOREST. Several processes such as functioning processes, fault-related processes and manufacturing processes can be represented as goal-oriented process trees in the three-dimensional space as an extension of an ontology-based functional modeling framework. One of the expected benefits is to he...

Teleological modeling is fundamental to understanding and explaining many complex systems, especially engineered systems. Research on engineering design and problem solving has developed several ontologies for expressing teleology, e.g., FR, FBS, and SBF. In this paper, we view SBF as a programming language. SBF models of engineering systems have been used in several computer programs for autom...