Keet, C. Maria (2020) The computer program as a functional whole, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems 2020 (FOIS'20), September 2020, Bolzano, FAIA, 330, 216-230, IOS Press.
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Abstract
Sharing, downloading, and reusing software is common-place, some of which is carried out legally with open source software. When it is not legal, it is unclear how many infringements have taken place: does an infringement count for the artefact as a whole or for each source file of a computer program? To answer this question, it must first be established whether a computer program should be considered as an integral whole, a collection, or a mere set of distinct files, and why. We argue that a program is a functional whole, availing of, and combining, arguments from mereology, granularity, modularity, unity, and function to substantiate the claim. The argumentation and answer contributes to the ontology of software artefacts, may assist industry in litigation cases, and demonstrates that the notion of unifying relation is operationalisable.
| Item Type: | Conference paper |
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| Subjects: | Computing methodologies > Artificial intelligence > Knowledge representation and reasoning > Ontology engineering |
| Alternate Locations: | http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volumearticle/55807 |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Sep 2021 09:44 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Sep 2021 09:44 |
| URI: | http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1399 |
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