Hayward Alker
Paper #: 99-02-011
Responding to a provocative question by Hiroharu Seki about Hiroshima ontologies, the author reviews his own thinking about the ontological primitives appropriate for peace-research relevant event-data making and defense-relevant high-performance knowledge bases. He proposes that second-generation adaptive, multiagent models in the tradition of Santa Fe Institute be developed to include the socially shared memories, including their identity-redefining traumas, of nations and of international society, as well as their relational/migrational/ecological histories of community building success and failure. Historicity in this ontologically distinctive sense is also a challenge for the relevant computationally oriented international relations and peace research literature on war and peace.