Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Center of Excellence Proposal
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White Paper on Incident Information Orb
Architecture (IIOA) à
Types of Ontology for Crisis
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Adi Structural Ontology Part I
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Cubicon language description
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We have been talking about the role that ontology may come to play in Department of Homeland Security (DHS) information systems, and in intrusion detection systems.
We have also been talking about the role that Readware structural ontology might play in a knowledge management system to be deployed in Europe.
These discussions are informed by the separation of ontology development and deployment tasks by considering three types of ontology:
Physical infrastructure
Real time conceptual mapping
Workflow or process mapping
as discussed at:
The task of creating physical infrastructure ontology is best known, and the ontologists amongst us have increasing experience with this.
The ontology community has less experience with the workflow or process-mapping task. The experience is there, but firm schools of thought have not developed on how best to define ontology of processes. The key difficulty is when this task must be realized in systems having true complexity as expressed in complex natural systems: see Chapter 2, Foundations.
There are a number of individuals who have thought about formalisms on information for a decade or more. The development of the knowledge sciences needs to trace this scholarship and extend the record of the scholarship back into the centuries, so as to establish the deep historical context to this most interesting problem, i.e. the nature and mechanisms of human thought and human communication.
The task of creating real time conceptual mapping ontology is difficult to define because the nature of conceptual expression and natural language is not reducible in the same way as the inventory of physical infrastructure. The scientific and technology difficulty in defining conceptual is not the only hurtle facing ontologists.
A consistent resistance by business and government
institutions has exacerbated the technical and scientific community that has
worked on this task. Over the past
three decades, many of us have seen types of technologies that exhibit high
fidelity measurement of the mechanisms in large complex systems. The Oracle ConText product, which was
removed due to pressure on Larry Ellison by his sales force leadership, is but
one example of a high fidelity tool for measuring thematic expression in
text.