D-Relation Database

One of the most salient characteristics of the environment is the continual creation and emergence of extensive webs of ‘deontic relations’ – interdependent rights, responsibilities, obligations, duties, privileges, entitlements, penalties, liberties, duties, authorizations, permissions, and so forth. The function of these deontic relations is to order and make coherent and predictable countless interactions among individuals, businesses, institutions, consumers, suppliers, partners, competitors, regulators, and other members of the complex environment ecosystems. 

In any given slice of time, a firm’s deontic position within the environment informs a variety of standard metrics concerning the health of the organization. The principle referred to in database design theory as ‘ontology-based data integration’ is incorporated within Pragmatica. Transitions from one state of affairs to another are accomplished through modifying or adjusting underlying logical structures. Ontology-based data integration is the same idea in the context of information theory, and is particularly appealing where multiple heterogeneous data sources are in play and semantic integration is the main worry.  The core idea is that data elements are absorbed into an ontology at the beginning of the extraction step; they are expressed ontologically as patterns of elements and relations and thus immediately imbued with semantic significance.  The translation rules are the rules of the ontology itself.