Thursday, May 1, 2008

What do i mean by model?

By modeling i mean identifying and specifying concepts and relationships for the domain which it is modeling. Modeling a domain not only represents the collective knowledge, but aids understanding and in advanced usage can help prediction. Most of our science and mathematics is aimed at modeling the world. What is newton's gravitation law but a modeling of real world for its mechanical properties.

Scientific experiments start with an hypothesis and then verify the hypothesis but a model. It identifies the concepts that are relevant to experiment, it declares relationship between concepts. The aim of experiment is to verify the relationships.

Modeling is common to many domains and current movements in semantic we are about modeling domains so that software can process it. It is with this thought that i start this blog.

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