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Thursday, January 26, 2006

 

Challenge problem à

Generative Methodology Glass Bead Games

 

possibility of complexity arising in grid computing

 

Communication to part of the SOA Blueprint Technical Committee (at OASIS)  à [144],

 

Communication from Judith Rosen

 

Hi Peter,

 

It's exciting to see how these ideas are being discovered, seemingly independently, all over the planet, in so many different venues and disciplines. The internet is the ideal mode for such "discoverers" to share knowledge and accelerate further development, it seems to me. Since my father, Robert Rosen, was one of those "discoverers," I'm happy to be able to give whoever is interested the benefit of what he found and developed, so it can be applied/integrated into new work and save the time it would take to reinvent these things, over and over again.

 

I took a look around your website and I have a few questions.

 

When you talk about "storing relations instead of data"... how do you assess those relations? From the information on your site, it appears that "Pile" is based on an assumption that all relations are considered equal to one another. Have I misunderstood? Do you store relational patterns (patterns of relations which are peculiar to certain system types and patterns of relations which repeat across system types) as well? How would these patterns be assessed?

 

I look forward to hearing more about this. I noticed that there is a link to an open source site, at www.pilesys.org where it appears the software is downloadable for free so that people can explore its potential and applicability, is that correct? If so, I think that's a marvelous approach to avoiding the problems of isolation and tunnel-vision which can be consequences of overspecialization in any particular area or field. Impressive.

 

Judith Rosen