Class: Capability

A capability is a realizable entity whose basis lies in one or more parts or qualities and reflects possibility of an entity to behave in a specified way under certain conditions or in response to a certain stimulus (trigger).

URI: sio:Capability

Parents

• is_a: RealizableEntity - A realizable entity is an attribute that is exhibited under some condition and is realized in some process.

Children

• Disposition - A disposition is the tendency of a capability to be exhibited under certain conditions or in response to a certain stimulus (trigger).
• Dysfunction - dysfunction is a capability to act in a manner that is abnormal or opposite to the object's typical function.
• Function - A function is a capability that satisfies some agentive objective, or (evolutionary) optimization.
• ToBeInteractedWith - to be interacted with is the capability of an object to be target of a physical interaction.
• ToBreathe - to breathe is the capability to inhale and exhale air into the body during respiration.
• ToInteractWith - to interact with is a capabililty that involves another object.

Referenced by Class

• Entity hasCapability _0..1 Capability

Attributes

Own

• isCapabilityOf _0..1

  • Description: is capability of is a relation between a capability and the entity that bears it.

  • Range: Entity

Inherited from RealizableEntity:

• hasCreator _0..1
  • Description: has creator is a relation between an entity and that which created it.
  • Range: Entity

• hasAttribute _0..1

  • Description: has attribute is a relation that associates a entity with an attribute where an attribute is an intrinsic characteristic such as a quality, capability, disposition, function, or is an externally derived attribute determined from some descriptor (e.g. a quantity, position, label/identifier) either directly or indirectly through generalization of entities of the same type.

  • Range: Entity

  • satisfies _0..1

  • Description: satisfies is a relation between an entity and the specification or objective that it conforms to.

  • Range: Description

  • isRelatedTo _0..1
  • Description: A is related to B iff there is some relation between A and B.
  • Range: Entity
  • hasBasis _0..1

  • Description: has basis is a relation between a realizable entity and the quality that forms the basis for it.

  • Range: Quality