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Title: RE: XML word processors and the SW (was Re: First Order Logic ...) We can
use the DTD or schema to automate and amplify the competence of the
user. For the Semantic Web, it will also be critical to build on
the
second
leg, trust. In some domains, (not security where trust
has a
much more definite meaning), trust entails the willingness
to
engage beyond the acceptance of competence. For humans,
some
assert the critical factors are emotional and that without
some
model for emotions that is shared across the Semantic
Net,
we have an interoperability issue for agents that goes
beyond
the editing suite.
Some duck this stuff as mushy, touchy feely, not science.
It
isn't science. It is art. It is where the computer programmer
becomes inadequate and the actor takes over. It is often
the
case that the critical skill in the enterprise design is
acute
awareness of the emotional factors of the agents
that
must cooperate and negotiate.
Reagan
was a terrible president. He was a so-so actor.
But the combination of power and mediocre talent made him an
excellent leader.
When
one looks at the applications of a DTD, one should
not
consider the DTD in isolation, but as a family of schemata
in a
process context in a goal context. Schemas are part
of the
ecology of communicating entities. Viewed as such,
any
topic is open to schematization. With the capacity of
adaptation to the schema, one can then model appropriateness.
All
these things are possible.
But
without the human emotional modeling, the critical
question "who sez?" is often answered by "who
cares?" Len
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