4.2.13. Models

The foundational model, including the components and artifacts presented above are really part of a container metaphor to locate and store knowledge resource models.

These knowledge resource models are typically sponsored by knowledge providers with knowledge resources to share.

These resources are modeled in 3D with animation, as required, typically by collaboration between the sponsors and the Cosmos Square knowledge modelers, with appropriate design and management.

The modeled resources are logically located in the Cosmos Square environment and made available to entitled subscribers.

Entitlement rules or principles are typically defined by sponsors and implemented by the Cosmos Square operation team.

Entitled subscribers typically access and interact with knowledge resource models through interaction with the Cosmos Square foundational model components and artifacts.

There is no theoretical limit to the number of modeled knowledge resource that can be embedded in Cosmos Square and any model can define its on 3D workspace, where users can experiment the model(s).

The 3D model workspace is typically a virtual room inside the Cosmos Square foundational model, but can also be any other defined virtual world area, opening the door to powerful partnerships, while allowing Cosmos Square to operate as a structured and entitled knowledge portal to multiple virtual world grid environments and spaces.

Although typically experienced in 3D, models are not restricted to 3D. 2D-based models are also common. Examples include but are not restricted to standards-based modeling languages like UML and BPMN.

More so, n-dimensional models are possible, even if they are projected and viewed in 3D or on a 2D plane in 3D space.

It is also interesting to note that even 2D models can be animated, for example, in making a BPMN process work-flow sequence more meaningful and easier to to understand as it operates in time.

Similarly, UML class diagrams inheritance and object instantiation can literally come alive and be experienced by subscribers in ways that multiple static diagrams cannot.

More so, with a generalize knowledge and information modeling framework, with structured modeling language semantics management, standard 2D modeling languages can be integrated together as well as with other modeling forms, both in 2D and in 3D, with animation, in 3D space, where users and subscribers can experienced them and share the related knowledge much more efficiently.

See Also

• 3.3. Example
• 5.1.3. Modeling Knowledge in Interactive Animated 3D