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Towards an Ontology of Military Plans and Planning 2
Barry Smithhttp://ncor.buffalo.edu/plan-ontologyNational Center for Ontological Research, Buffalo
with thanks to Peter Morosoff (e-maps)
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On the Ontology of Deontic Elements
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The Structure of the Promise
promiser promiseethe
promise
relations of one-sideddependence
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The Structure of the Promise
promiser
promisee
act of speaking
act of registering
content
three-sided mutualdependence
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The Structure of the Promise
oblig-ation
claim
promiser
promisee
act of speaking
act of registering
content
two-sided mutual dependence
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The Structure of the Promise
promiser
promisee
act of speaking
act of registering
content F
oblig-ation
claim
action: do F
= tendency towards realization
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Modifications of Social Acts
Sham promises
Lies as sham assertions (cf. a forged signature); rhetorical questions
Social acts performed in someone else’s name (representation, delegation)
Social acts with multiple addresses
Conditional social acts
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promiser
promisee
act of speaking
act of registering
content F
oblig-ation
claim
action: do F
The Background (Environment)
sincere intention
How modific-ations occur
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promiser
promisee
act of speaking
act of registering
content F
oblig-ation
claim
action: do F
The Background (Environment)
sincere intention
How modific-ations occur
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promiser
promisee
act of speaking
act of registering
content F
oblig-ation
claim
action: do F
The Background (Environment)
sincere intention
How modific-ations occur
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promiser
promisee
act of speaking
act of registering
content F
oblig-ation
claim
action: do F
The Background (Environment)
sincere intention
How modific-ations occur
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promiser
promisee
act of speaking
act of registering
content F
oblig-ation
claim
action: do F
The Background (Environment, External Memory)
sincere intention
TRUST
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Collective social acts
Singing in a choir
Conversation
Dancing
Arguing
Religious rituals
War
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commander
will to realize this goal in this way (command-ers intend)
plan specificatio
nincluding goal, COA
commit-ment plan
disposition: realize goal by
performing specified actions
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Plan Ontology (fragment)
Draft of 09-14-2014
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Ontology Materials to support the work on an adaptive plan ontology
http://ncor.buffalo.edu/plan-ontology/
http://milportal.ncor.buffalo.edu/ontologies
https://code.google.com/p/information-artifact-ontology/
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Problems of Doctrinal Documents
• Little aid to computation
• Developed independently in divergent and non-principled ways
• Low possibility of aggregation causing failures of data integration initiatives
• New approaches needed that can enable computational discovery, retrieval, integration and processing of data
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Needs
• add individuals (Joint Chiefs of Staff)• add treatment of collective plan execution
(mediated through commands and through intermeshed documents)
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Collective social acts
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First main thesis:the meshing of complex actions of large numbers of people is made possible through
1. modularization 2. hierarchically organized authorities
both resting essentially on 3. the meshing of (typically diagrammatic) documents4. systems of laws
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Orchestal score with staves
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The Modularity of the Orchestral Score
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The actions of the players in an orchestral performance
• are intermeshed through the sets of intermeshed documents we call orchestral scores
These documents are plan specifications (sets of instructions for playing instruments)The conductor provides the authority
– to initiate commitment, thus to create a plan from a mere plan specification
– to resolve disputes which arise along the way, for example as to interpretation, tempo, …
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Scores bring it about that specific obligation series are distributed in coordinated fashion across large groups
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players actions are coordinated and steered through time through conductor’s actions combined with intermeshed sets of instructions
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Massive shared agency presupposes modularity
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Modularity of Orchestral Score
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reflects modularity of orchestra
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Authorities involved in maintaining the division of orchestral deontic labor that is involved in a symphony concert:
ConductorOrchestral section leaders (First violin …)Rehearsal (drill) managerOrchestra managerConcert hall manager~ Composer
– exerts authority only as mediated through the score
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Documents involved in maintaining the division of orchestral deontic labor
scores, sub-scorescontracts
orchestra manager and conductor orchestra manager and playersconcert hall manager and orchestra managerconcert hall manager and audience members (tickets)
laws, includingcopyright lawlaws governing public assemblylaws governing employment contractslaws governing sale of tickets
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between
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documents hold together the executions of horizontally and vertically meshed subplans
through drilldrill, too, is modularized
based on individual and small group practice all the way up to full orchestra rehearsal
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How to do things with scores1. the author authors the score, thereby creates a possibility
of performance, and thereby creates the work2. conductor and orchestra use the score as the specification
of a plan (with subplans) and commit themselves to its execution,
3. the orchestra members committing themselves to accept the authority of the conductor
4. they use the score in to rehearsing the execution of their plan (develop score-coordinated expertise through drill)
5. they schedule a concert, thereby making a commitment to each other, to their employer, and to a prospective audience to perform that work
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Scott J. Shapiro, “Massively Shared Agency”, 2013
[Bratman, Searle …] ‘are unable to account for the existence of massively shared agency.
they ‘have largely concentrated on analyzing shared activities among highly committed participants. The working assumption has been that those who sing duets or paint houses together are all committed to the success of the activity.’
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Shapiro: To adapt standard theory of collective agency to deal with massively shared actions we
need to add authority
Authorities are … “mesh creating” mechanisms. When disputes between participants break out with respect to the proper way to proceed, authorities can create a mesh between the subplans of the participants by demanding that both sides accept a certain solution.
Basis for Shapiro’s theory of the nature of law
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Searle: Directions of fit• world-to-mind: a plan is formulated to
change the world (to make it conform to the mind of the planner …)
• mind-to-world: an assertion is about something in the world
• automatic mind-to-world-and-world-to-mind: I say “I promise to pay you $100 dollars” and thereby make it true that I promise to pay you $100 dollars
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planning directions of fit• world-to-plan: the plan tells the world how to
shape itself to create actions that are in conformance with the plan and thereby achieve the plan objective
• plan-to-world: the plan specification, when the execution is completed successfully, serves as a record of this execution
• automatic plan-to-world-and-world-to-plan: the commander commits to a given plan specification and thereby brings into being a plan that is precisely in conformance to this specification 37
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Living Blueprint
what begins as a plan
ends as a record • of process• of product
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Blueprint associated with multiple series of documents with deontic powers
chain of commitments from order to blueprint creation to acceptance of
blueprint to process of building
in accordance with blueprint
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Plans will be modified along the way
physical changes to the building to meet building codes
changes in materials/suppliers
changes in allowed physical processes
changes in administrative (approval) processes
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Documents with different directions of fit become intermeshed through being
stapled together over time
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Second main thesis:there is a division of deontic labor effectuated through the medium of
intermeshed documents, which allow the deontic effects of episodic acts to be
extended through time
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