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Writing on facts, rules and agents
Longer essays on ORM 2, FORML and why agents need a fact layer — newest first. RSS
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Actions and Rules for Agents in ORM 2
A little-cited paper on dynamic rules in Object-Role Modeling turns out to be an action-schema language for agents. Here is what it got right, the one thing it left unfinished, and how to model agent actions today in a formalism a validator can actually check.
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An Ontology Is Not a Fact Layer
Your ontology says what exists. Your agent needs to know what is allowed. Those are different artifacts, and the gap between them is where agents quietly go wrong.
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Your Agent Is Guessing About Your Domain
A nullable column can't tell your coding agent whether the rule was optional or nobody ever decided. Here's the layer that can.