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Acronym Expansion

Information Flow Framework Language

Description

IFF is an effort to develop Information Flow: the logic of distributed systems. The Information Flow Framework celebrates the notion of a community. The standards of a community, encoded in the types and constraints of that community's ontology, represent consensual agreement within the community. The global standards of a collection of cooperating communities, encoded in the types and constraints of a common generic extensible ontology, represent the consensual agreement across communities _ a standard semantics. Community ontologies, the links between such ontologies, and the resulting virtual fusion ontologies, can all be represented with the Information Flow Framework. (Definition adapted from www.ontologos.org/IFF)

Other specification

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