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This paper addresses the issue of directly executing conceptual graphs by developing an execution model that simulates interactions among behavioral concepts and with attributes related to object concepts. While several researchers have proposed various mechanisms for computing or simulating conceptual graphs, but these usually rely on extensions to conceptual graphs. The simulation algorithm described in this paper is inspired by digital logic simulators and reactive systems simulators. Behavior in conceptual graphs is described by action, event and state concept types along with all their subtypes. Activity in such concepts propagates over conceptual relations to invoke activity or changes in other behavioral concepts or to affect the attributes related to object type concepts. The challenging issues of orderly simulation of behavior recursively described by another graphs, and of combinational relations are also addressed.
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Cyre, W.R. (1998). Executing conceptual graphs. In: Mugnier, ML., Chein, M. (eds) Conceptual Structures: Theory, Tools and Applications. ICCS 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1453. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0054904
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