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the analogy is not accurate and "adaptive object models" are decades
old.
On Tuesday, Oct 28, 2003, at 15:48 Europe/Berlin, Didier PH Martin
wrote:
> ...
>
> As an example, in the insurance industry, some object properties are
> changing on the basis of events and therefore on potential risks.
> Events
> that occurred rarely in the past may increase because of environmental
> or
> social changes. The end users can add a new property to these classes
> without the need of developers. Hence, end users can modify the model
> or the
> ontology.
>
to take this example, in order to relieve the use of the "operator"
task, the system would have to accept the assertion, that the even
occurred, together with a description of its consequences, and proceed
to rewrite the object metamodel and instance model itself. manual
changes to the metamodel with automatic propagation to an instance
model are old technology and are one level lower than the paradigm's
aspirations.
> Some of these systems allow the automatic creation of forms based on
> the
> ontology, a bit like Protégé is doing. Thus, the UI closely follows the
> model and is therefore "model driven".
that's also still one level down.
>
> Off course all these techniques are not "mainstream" and are practiced
> by
> few specialists. Nonetheless, the success realized by some
> applications just
> show us that users can be empowered by dynamic tools.
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