Sunday, January 29, 2006
Generative Methodology Glass Bead Games
possibility of complexity arising in grid computing
[368] ß [comment on four issues
(Richard Ballard)
[367] ß [Four Issues facing
Ontological Modeling (Paul Werbos)
[371] ß [Discussion about founding
the Second School (Paul Prueitt)
[151] ß [Comment by Paul Werbos on
invariance of natural laws
[152] ß [Continuing discussion
between Peter Krieg and Judith Rosen
Communication
to part of the SOA Blueprint Technical Committee (at OASIS) à [144],
This note has two parts:
A) regarding the presence of a unifying methodology for deploying federated web service mediation
B) regarding the next step, using "n-articulated ontology" based on the exclusive use of "federated web service mediation"
(As of 1/31/2006 9:02 AM, the phrases in quotes return an empty google response.)
Your work is more detailed and real then any I have seen, in terms of non-abstract discussions regarding how federated web services work.
It is mentioned that there are projects that use the federation server.
Figure 1 (2003) in
http://www.ebxmlsoft.com/papers/ebxml-fera.pdf
gives the abstract configuration, and the short paper explains how two kinds of enterprises link into the abstract configuration
1) an enterprise that will use a gateway to the federated server provided by a ebXML gateway provider. In this case there is a repository function of the federated server (where the repository manages information about participating enterprises.)
2) an enterprise that has a federated server (providing a gateway to external users)
In your excellent PowerPoint: (FERA-quick-intro (2005)) it becomes clear that certain principles are consistently held to in the development of the reference architecture. One of these principles is that there are enumerations of aspects, and that once a complete and minimal enumeration of the aspects of "something" is achieved; we then have a methodology for retaining simplicity and conceptual coherence within the reference architecture. (Thus you give proper meaning to the term "reference").
The "reference model" then becomes something that is finitely knowable and unifying.
So abstractly the FERA should deploy in a straightforward way, and once deployed one can begin to produce metrics on the value added as well as to produce process models about how the system actually functions in real life.
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Side note: My research community has developed a theory of formative ontology based on relationalism (the study of active relationships involved in the formation of autopoiesis (identity of self). This theory is based on a notion of natural complexity developed by Robert Rosen during the last four decades of the last century. It has been my contribution to conjecture that Rosen’s definition of natural complexity leads to a theory of physics based on a set of specific principles;
1) natural processes stratify into layers of activity
2) stratification creates ecosystems of interactions where entities are defined by functional relationships within that ecosystem (and not by the composition of the entities).
3) As a consequence of function/structure double articulation (or n-articulation) the layers of any naturally occurring phenomenon are separated by an “epistemic gap”.
These specific principles establish a foundation to information systems where the definitional separation between data and context are understood to be based on the real physics of complex systems. In this separation leads to the removal of “first order logics” from what are called “ontology” by the Semantic Web community, and to the definition of a second school of semantic science.