A treasure trove of Dedre Gentner links, titled “Analogy, Similarity, Metaphor and Mental Models” at Northwestern University, where she is Director of Cognitive Science Program.
Information Technology
Link - Universal Business Language ( UBL )
OASIS Universal Business Language standard. Not a far reaching standard, but probably more useful for small, resource-starved development projects.
From the standards document:
... The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) is intended to help solve these problems by defining a generic XML interchange format for business documents that can be extended to meet the requirements of particular industries. Specifically, UBL 1.0 provides the following:
Links - Semantic Web
Jan 25 2009 - Added Named Graph links
Note to self Sept 10 2008 - This thing needs work.
Revised: April 4 2008. This disordered mess of links cleaned up, except for a few strays.
See Semantic Web at technorati.com.
Examples of RDF and stray stuff:
Links - Rule Based Systems at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
Tons of interesting aritcles at the System and Software Engineering lab (SSEL) ... many need a bit of googling to find them all.
Many links can be found on the VUB Publications page. Also check out the thesises ... thesii ? ...
The general basis of many of the articles is Aspect Oriented Programming, but the focus at VUB is business rules and rule-based systems.
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- Visit Dynamic Business Rules for Web Service Composition
- Visit High-Level Specification of Business Rules and Their Crosscutting Connections
- Visit Hybrid Aspects for Integrating Rule-Based Knowledge and Object Oriented Functionality
- Visit Thesis Proposal - Rule Integration Patterns in the Domain of Heath Care
- Visit Links - Rule Based Systems at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB)
March 26th 2008 - The Big Day for the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia
Updated: April 15th 2008
March 26th was the start of the AAAI 2008 Spring Symposia.
From the Symposia program schedule page:
Links - Ontologies and Organizations
The general definition of ontology at Wikipedia ( versus the computer science definition given in the main link ) is "a study of conceptions of reality and the nature of being". In some ways, the general definition is more appropriate to modeling organizations - the target audience for an organizational ontology is people, not computers.
The shortest and most intuitive definition of term ontology is 'a description of things that be'. For most purposes, it may be the best definition.
Links - Grid Computing and the Semantic Grid
The Semantic Grid takes the standards of the Semantic Web usch as RDF and OWL and combines them with the technology of Grid Computing, sometimes called the Computational Grid. There is a strong association between Grid Computing and SOA architecture.
One of the best descriptions from the article Semantic Grid is Laying the Foundations for the Semantic Grid (PDF ):
Links - CommonKADS
According to Wikipedia, the definition of CommonKADS is "a methodology to support structured knowledge engineering."
An interesting variation includes Multiagent Systems ( MAS-CommonKADS ). In the article A Methodological Proposal for Multiagent Systems Development extending CommonKADS, the major constituents of the CommonKADS Agent are:
Links- Knowledge Engineering
Updated Sept 16 2008
An interesting collection of people and papers at the UCLA Graduate Summer School 2007, Probabilistic Models of Cognition: The Mathematics of Mind ( encrypted for some reason ). What better way to spend one's summer.
Authoritative Definitions of the Semantic Web
Revised: Oct 4 2007
News Flash: Wikipedia's and W3C's Definitions Of Semantic Web Have Changed !
Wikipedia has a new definition of the Semantic Web.