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A formal theory for conceptualizing artefacts and tool manipulations
Nicolas Troquard
119 - 132
10.3233/978-1-61499-438-1-119
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
Volume 267: Formal Ontology in Information Systems
Abstract

Artefacts (physical and institutional) are ubiquitous of our social environment. We live in a tight network of socio-technical systems, which are systems where agents interact with created objects. There is an increasing need for rigorous methods to model, specify, and reason about socio-technical systems in general, and about artefacts and their functions in particular. We propose a formal theory that serves at the conceptualization of artefacts and their manipulations: design, implementation, existence, use, and persistence.

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