Based on the formal-ontological paradigm of Constructive Descriptions and Situations, we propose a definition of social collectives that includes social agents, plans, norms, and the conceptual relations between them. We also propose a typology of social collectives, including collection of agents, knowledge community, intentional collective, and intentional normative collective. Our ontology, represented as a first-order theory, provides the expressivity to talk about the contexts (social, informational, circumstantial, and epistemic), in which collectives make and produce sense
@InProceedings{gangemi_et_al:DagSemProc.07122.20, author = {Gangemi, Aldo and Lehmann, Jos and Catenacci, Carola}, title = {{Norms and plans as unification criteria for social collectives}}, booktitle = {Normative Multi-agent Systems}, pages = {1--40}, series = {Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings (DagSemProc)}, ISSN = {1862-4405}, year = {2007}, volume = {7122}, editor = {Guido Boella and Leon van der Torre and Harko Verhagen}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/DagSemProc.07122.20}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-9103}, doi = {10.4230/DagSemProc.07122.20}, annote = {Keywords: Formal Ontology, Constructivism, Social Entities, Semantic Web} }
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