{"id":"https://openalex.org/W1776515515","doi":"https://doi.org/10.3233/ao-2011-0090","title":"If engineering function is a family resemblance concept: Assessing three formalization strategies","display_name":"If engineering function is a family resemblance concept: Assessing three formalization strategies","publication_year":2011,"publication_date":"2011-01-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W1776515515","doi":"https://doi.org/10.3233/ao-2011-0090","mag":"1776515515"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.3233/ao-2011-0090","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.3233/ao-2011-0090","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S31619775","display_name":"Applied Ontology","issn_l":"1570-5838","issn":["1570-5838","1875-8533"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310318577","host_organization_name":"IOS Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310318577"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["IOS Press"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Applied Ontology","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5037222329","display_name":"Massimiliano Carrara","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3509-1585"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I138689650","display_name":"University of Padua","ror":"https://ror.org/00240q980","country_code":"IT","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I138689650"]}],"countries":["IT"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Massimiliano Carrara","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Philosophy, University of Padua, Padova, Italy. E-mail: massimiliano.carrara@unipd.it","(Correspd. E-mail: massimiliano.carrara@unipd.it) Department of Philosophy, University of Padua, Padova, Italy. E-mail: massimiliano.carrara@unipd.it#TAB#"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Philosophy, University of Padua, Padova, Italy. E-mail: massimiliano.carrara@unipd.it","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I138689650"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"(Correspd. E-mail: massimiliano.carrara@unipd.it) Department of Philosophy, University of Padua, Padova, Italy. E-mail: massimiliano.carrara@unipd.it#TAB#","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I138689650"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5018658614","display_name":"Pawe\u0142 Garbacz","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4145-7528"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I111702420","display_name":"John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin","ror":"https://ror.org/04qyefj88","country_code":"PL","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I111702420"]}],"countries":["PL"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Pawel Garbacz","raw_affiliation_strings":["Department of Philosophy, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland. E-mail: garbacz@kul.lublin.pl"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Department of Philosophy, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland. E-mail: garbacz@kul.lublin.pl","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I111702420"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5015405304","display_name":"Pieter E. Vermaas","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8175-9179"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I98358874","display_name":"Delft University of Technology","ror":"https://ror.org/02e2c7k09","country_code":"NL","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I98358874"]}],"countries":["NL"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Pieter E. Vermaas","raw_affiliation_strings":["Philosophy Department, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. E-mail: p.e.vermaas@tudelft.nl"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Philosophy Department, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands. E-mail: p.e.vermaas@tudelft.nl","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I98358874"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":3,"institutions_distinct_count":3,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5037222329"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I138689650"],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":36.7027,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":34,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.99594506,"is_in_top_1_percent":true,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":89,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":"6","issue":"2","first_page":"141","last_page":"163"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10778","display_name":"Philosophy and History of Science","score":0.9660999774932861,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1207","display_name":"History and Philosophy of Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10778","display_name":"Philosophy and History of Science","score":0.9660999774932861,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1207","display_name":"History and Philosophy of Science"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10672","display_name":"Design Education and Practice","score":0.9634000062942505,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/2210","display_name":"Mechanical Engineering"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/22","display_name":"Engineering"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10215","display_name":"Semantic Web and Ontologies","score":0.9405999779701233,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1702","display_name":"Artificial Intelligence"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.7803986072540283},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/function","display_name":"Function (biology)","score":0.5490187406539917},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/software-engineering","display_name":"Software engineering","score":0.37531667947769165}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.7803986072540283},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C14036430","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3736076","display_name":"Function (biology)","level":2,"score":0.5490187406539917},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C115903868","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q80993","display_name":"Software engineering","level":1,"score":0.37531667947769165},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C86803240","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420","display_name":"Biology","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C78458016","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q840400","display_name":"Evolutionary biology","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.3233/ao-2011-0090","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.3233/ao-2011-0090","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S31619775","display_name":"Applied Ontology","issn_l":"1570-5838","issn":["1570-5838","1875-8533"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310318577","host_organization_name":"IOS Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310318577"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["IOS Press"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Applied Ontology","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:www.research.unipd.it:11577/2482214","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"http://hdl.handle.net/11577/2482214","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S4306402547","display_name":"Padua Research Archive (University of Padova)","issn_l":null,"issn":null,"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/I138689650","host_organization_name":"University of Padua","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/I138689650"],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"repository"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":null,"raw_type":"info:eu-repo/semantics/article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[{"display_name":"Reduced inequalities","id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/10","score":0.4099999964237213}],"awards":[],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321966","display_name":"Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Padova","ror":"https://ror.org/00240q980"}],"has_content":{"pdf":false,"grobid_xml":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":51,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W3608534","https://openalex.org/W34726618","https://openalex.org/W156592512","https://openalex.org/W174342562","https://openalex.org/W174691002","https://openalex.org/W187961017","https://openalex.org/W207810871","https://openalex.org/W425733178","https://openalex.org/W1488660199","https://openalex.org/W1541807484","https://openalex.org/W1751175273","https://openalex.org/W1828435632","https://openalex.org/W1918604556","https://openalex.org/W1964024933","https://openalex.org/W1966543166","https://openalex.org/W1980266640","https://openalex.org/W1987518137","https://openalex.org/W1992753815","https://openalex.org/W1996457327","https://openalex.org/W1998226193","https://openalex.org/W2000255081","https://openalex.org/W2016950872","https://openalex.org/W2024036596","https://openalex.org/W2028188880","https://openalex.org/W2043378504","https://openalex.org/W2044970816","https://openalex.org/W2054776189","https://openalex.org/W2064674290","https://openalex.org/W2075922286","https://openalex.org/W2076101190","https://openalex.org/W2086215840","https://openalex.org/W2089631246","https://openalex.org/W2090531524","https://openalex.org/W2104011458","https://openalex.org/W2119907556","https://openalex.org/W2124957697","https://openalex.org/W2129671194","https://openalex.org/W2133109597","https://openalex.org/W2137665890","https://openalex.org/W2140305396","https://openalex.org/W2148172343","https://openalex.org/W2155095105","https://openalex.org/W2156094678","https://openalex.org/W2173312389","https://openalex.org/W2182633017","https://openalex.org/W2185982256","https://openalex.org/W2242965157","https://openalex.org/W2249418374","https://openalex.org/W2536273380","https://openalex.org/W2574098768","https://openalex.org/W2622591457"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W2899084033","https://openalex.org/W2748952813","https://openalex.org/W2390279801","https://openalex.org/W2358668433","https://openalex.org/W2376932109","https://openalex.org/W2001405890","https://openalex.org/W2382290278","https://openalex.org/W2350741829","https://openalex.org/W2130043461","https://openalex.org/W2530322880"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"In":[0],"this":[1],"paper":[2],"we":[3],"argue":[4],"that":[5,32],"the":[6,9,23],"challenge":[7,24],"of":[8,11,16,28],"formalization":[10],"functions":[12],"not":[13],"merely":[14],"consists":[15],"analyzing":[17],"and":[18],"formalizing":[19,29],"yet":[20],"another":[21],"concept;":[22],"may":[25],"also":[26],"consist":[27],"a":[30,38],"concept":[31],"is":[33],"to":[34],"be":[35],"taken":[36],"as":[37],"family":[39],"resemblance":[40],"conc":[41]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2022,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2021,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2020,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2019,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2018,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2017,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2016,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2015,"cited_by_count":2},{"year":2014,"cited_by_count":4},{"year":2013,"cited_by_count":6},{"year":2012,"cited_by_count":3}],"updated_date":"2026-04-15T08:11:43.952461","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}