Hi,
I have a modeling best practice question, and I hope I can get some answers
from the experienced ontology developers at this forum. I apologize if this is
the wrong forum to do this - please let me know.
I often have to code things that can be treated, from a practical perspective,
either class or instance. For example, multi-criteria decision analysis
methods. You can say they are all instances of the class
MultiCriteriaDecisionanalsysisMethod, but they form a hierarchical structure
too:
MultiCriteriaDecisionanalsysisMethod
CriterionWeightingMethod
PairwiseComparison
...
AlternativeScreeningMethod
...
MultiAttributeCombinationMethod
...
...
I have been coding all the methods as classes, since even for a method that is
the leaf level method for now, some day someone may have developed some sub
methods for it (e.g. we had SenstivityAnalysisMethod as a leaf class, which
later got expanded to several sub methods such as
SpatialSenstivityAnalysisMethod and AspatialSenstivityAnalysisMethod, each of
which had their own sub-methods...). In the same time I have been treating
them like instances in the sense that I have been using the properties
specified on the top method class for all the sub classes - it's like treating
the sub classes as the instances of the top class. I did this inside the
Composer by simply dragging the properties into the Form view of a method
subclass (and specify values for them). But of course I haven't been able to
use some of the nicer functions in Composer for instances, such as the Form
Layout view.
My questions is, is there a way for me to create a method class to which all
the methods above are instances? And in the same time keep my method class
hierarchy? For example create a method class as a subclass under owl:Class,
and add all the method classes above as instances to this new method class? Is
this the right way to do it? What's the best practice?
Thanks.
Naicong
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Naicong Li, Ph.D.
Redlands Institute, University of Redlands
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