A Simple-Minded Network Model with Context-like Objects - Bruce Edmonds

3 Modelling context as an emergent property of a more basic structure

The considerations above suggest the potential dual nature of contexts (as context and object of reasoning). This means that a model which formalises contexts as a different class of object will need some method of strongly associating contexts with other objects (as in McCarthy's conception of first order contextual logic where reasoning can be about contexts).

Perhaps a more natural way of formalising context in order to compare different conceptions, is to not distinguish contexts from other object of reasoning, learning etc. but to be chosen such that certain object act like contexts in certain circumstances. Thus one would like a reasonably simple formalism such that particular kinds of model of context and context-related structures can be seen as special cases of the more general structure. I put forward one candidate below - I have suspicions that it is too simple for the job, but it is better to start simply and elaborate rather than start with an over-complex formalism that may obscure the essential details and hence the debate.

A Simple-Minded Network Model with Context-like Objects - Bruce Edmonds - 13 FEB 97

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