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Guidance, please
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| Posted by: Jack Ring |
9/23/2007 |
My current projects include:
1. Discovering good ways to master the fuzzy front end of "wicked systems" projects.
2. Pushing for educating the K-12 segment of society in systemics.
3. Demonstrating "model-based" systems initialization and evolution, a distinct alternative to the variants of PLM. Specifically interested in the design and creation of intelligent enterprises, especially the ones that accomplish
- Intelligence,
- Design/Architecting,
- Engineering/Constructing, and
- Adoption/Assay/Adaptation.
4. Sorting out the concepts for an infrastructure that enables 'information elaboration punctuated by decision' (David G. Ullman's characterizaton of design). When we compare a) the increasing demand by society for solutions to increasingly wicked problems to b) the decreasing supply (due to the impending retirement of baby boomers) it is clear that we must increase practitioner productivity and innovation 10-fold. This is feasible even though, to some, it may feel like the 10 is on the Richter scale.
5. Investigating the better metric for knowledge production and utilization. If we invest in knowledge management, how shall we measure the gains made?
6. Discoverng the strategy for enabling whole system modeling, world-wide.
7. Experimenting with the Interactive Management method as a way to arriving at stakeholder consensus even when stakeholders are diverse, contentious or litigious.
8. Finding ways to recognize and classify patterns in data streams 10 times better in (each) throughput, latency, cost, acuity and ease of integration and use compared to current devices.
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Re: Guidance, please |
By Brian K Seitz on
11/6/2007 |
#1 ) I found a lot of promise in the mid-80s using a miture of graphicial metaphor for linguistics and pattern matching. This led to serveral white papers at IBM Guide/Share on "Enterprise Linguistics for Computer Integrated Manufacturing"; the Body Enterprise; and a few others. A prototype was built that was an exploration of factory that builds factories...
#3) my PLM early research, 1984, into storage mechanism suggested hierarchical storage systems such as betrieve, IMS were more suited to the task. Additionally, the problem is one of multiple classifications schema and search algorythyms. Seitz's Information Management Assertion "The way you store and categorize information is most likely not the way you'll retreive it" That said, a system that is organized with a input schema, a storage schema, and alternative retrieval schema is the area I would suggest you follow
#4) Portfolio Management: Options Theory: Real Options
#5 Call me
#6 General Systems theory with object encapsulation (see "ITHINK")
#7 Call me --mixture of Ulllman work, Scenario Planning and Options Theory
#8 see reply to #1 |
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Re: Guidance, please |
By Jack Ring on
12/3/2007 |
Brian,
TKU for the response. Pls tell me ---
#1 - Have the white papers been superceded or are they still relevant to Cyon customers and prospects?
#3 - Quite so. In MEDLARS (for the National Library of Medicine) the data base was inverted prior to the monthly run of the Index Medicus. One alternative is the "three schema" technique you suggest. Another is the no schema approach that is made feasible by using a logic device that does not use the stored program, sequential register technique of computers.
#4 - These are applicable but not sufficient. What other notions come to mind?
#5 - Number, please.
#6 - The question is much larger than system dynamics can handle. In cybernetics lingo it is a "second order" system, a construct that ITHINK cannot handle. I will be publishing the results of a Interactive Management session involving 16 leading practitioners. Your critique of it will be welcome.
#7 - number please. I agree with your notions. Warfield's provisions in IM (www.jnwarfield.com) for avoiding cogntive overload and underconceptualization are key.
#8 - In 1977 our mathematicians proved (to the embarrassment of ARPA) that a solution NOT based on stored program computers could always beat one that was. Dimensions were acuity (absence of false positives and false negatives), throughput (bytes/second of scanned data), latency (time delay from onset of phenomenon to recognition of its existence), cost, and ease of use (nobody enjoys formulating queries). This work was classified at the time. Now it is one foundaton of the patent pending General Purpose Set Theoretic Processor, soon to be manifest on a RAM chip with user-controllable acuity, Gigabyte/sec throughput, two clock cycle latency (no preprocessing such as indexing, not post processing such as latent semantic analysis), cost basis of $100 per chip that is equivalent to 3600 microprocessors in a grid configuration and ease of use by automatic 'meshing' of ontologies and calculaton of their 'degree of separation' (ala John Sowa's work with Common Logic).
In addition to being manifest as a co-processor chip in every PC, it is an excellent candidate for a cell on the System on a Chip by IBM and others. Anyone interested in leveraging this invention is welcome to contact me or call 480-488-4615.
Thanks for your response.
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