RoleWare(tm) and Rolonics(tm)

Well, the jig is up. RoleWare and Rolonics have been a pair of the best kept secrets in software and systems for a very long time. Looks like I've been outed by my friend BiLaf (more on this later - see my link to the Compstrm Blog). So it's time to come clean. Of course the joke is that, although in clear sight, R&R will undoubtedly suffer the same fate as the grail did in Raiders of the Lost Arc.

RoleWare (or Role-Based Software) is a system for representing all knowledge as roles, role relationships, and role interactions. As this blog progresses you will find out that what we mean by a role in RoleWare is far more universal then any traditional use of the term. Roles represent contexts, and can be applied equally well to persons, automatons, and inanimates. Roles exist (and cease to exist) in a universe of two-dimensional time.

Rolonics (the basis of RoleWare) is essentially the study (and representation) of knowledge as wholes and parts. Wholes and parts, in turn, are represented in both static and dynamic ways -- we will refer to these representations as structures and streams. Rolonics, at its core, is based on two deep axiomatic principles and constructs -- context and time.

Ah, glad I got that off my chest. All I have to do now is fill in the details.

Stay tuned . . . ;-norm