Preliminary work on Upper
Fixed Orb Taxonomy
3/5/2004
9:40 AM
BCN Group Computational Intelligence
Laboratory (CIL)
(edited from year 2000
document)
BCNGroup Inc is a private Not-for Profit Foundation
Chartered in the
Commonwealth of Virginia (1997)
CIL is designed to deploy Knowledge Management
and Computational Intelligence in Distributed and Virtual Environments.
We feel that the specific
architecture outlined in the Foundations of
Knowledge Management is the basis for a new generation of computational
systems.
We
expect that systems based on a "tri-level computational architecture" will support the
management of virtual intelligence in social communities connected by web
technologies.
Individuals,
particularly those involved with decision making which use these new tools,
will need a specific set of communication skills that organize information in
context sensitive ways. The skills are needed because the nature of the virtual
communication is not merely communication in the sense that communication has
come to be commonly understood. There is a specific extension to computational
knowledge artifacts of two specific classes; substructure (memory) and
ultrastructure (anticipation).
Elements
from these two classes have been brought together within a temporal order. More recently we have develop HIP
(Human-centric Information Production) technology called Orbs (Ontologystream referential
bases).
Oral
discourse may rely critically in the use of a "time lens (figure 1)" to gather from real
time experience the subtitles of meaning that can never be expressed in written
form. So spoken and written communications have "ontological"
differences from the inner contents of awareness that can be intellectually
appreciated only through deep scholarship and personal reflection.
In
a similar fashion, electronically mediated discourse introduces a set of
characteristics that are unique to the medium.
On
the near term horizon, we see not just a new technology (HIP),
based on radically new principles, but a maturation of a philosophy of new
technology use by individuals.
A
"use-philosophy" is required in order to align the true
characteristics of computation with the true characteristics of human discourse
and cognition.
The
BCN Group Foundation believes that in order to
reflect the differences between, and similarity of, computational processes and
cognitive processes, this use-philosophy must have a mature grounding in
certain empirical sciences, including quantum physics and neuropsychology.
The
grounding motivates the introduction
of knowledge technology. Three classes of these knowledge technologies have
been identified:
1.
computational
argumentation,
2.
statistical
representation of invariant patterns with novelty detection and
3.
contextual
annotation.
These
three classes correspond to the three levels of a tri-level architecture.
The
use-philosophy can be minimally complex; BUT ONLY IF there is no incorrectness
in the way that the philosophy addressed essential questions. This means that the curriculum supporting a new
discipline
is essential.
We,
as the community of scholars, must face up to the fact that certain schools of
academic thought do represent the essential questions incorrectly. This
incorrectness preserves certain principles that are related to underlying
socially held beliefs and informal control by the American media and related
institutions.
True
knowledge is personal power, and false knowledge is control over others; but
this a separate story to be told at a different place and time.
1.
A
correct use philosophy must address issues related to the realities of
communication, knowledge, memory representation, and awareness. For example,
the philosophical notions of mind body can be used in such a way as to inform
even children about how the use-philosophy addresses universally perceived
issues.
2.
The
use-philosophy must have no ownership by any corporation. A "correct"
use-philosophy has a common good that can not be properly owned. American citizens can not afford to
turn our back on a technology that is within the spirit of the user/interface
design philosophy introduced by Apple Computer and then distorted and reduced
in quality by Microsoft Incorporated. The price that we pay for improper
user/interface design principles is simply too great to bear. Knowledge
technology needs the early Apple type user/interface paradigm, but also a
paradigm that requires an active participation in the production of
"knowledge artifacts". Given the current problems with systemic
control of our news and entertainment media; it is easy how a transition to a
knowledge age is under treat (this text was written in 2000). Society must be
able to step from the information age into the knowledge age. However; as long
as significant powers hold a right to claim that knowledge is property, the
proper knowledge technology cannot be developed.
3.
We
are proposing the development of a new generation of on-line role playing games that have well grounded metaphoric correspondences
to genetic-immunology, quantum neurodynamics, open logics, nanotechnology, and
archetypical psychology.
4.
Standards
based on the philosophy of use will address philosophical and empirical issues
rather than proprietary issues.
A
new set of competencies will be needed to make use of tools that capture intelligence
in one part of a complex social system and communicate this intelligence to
another part of the system.
New
types of software systems will provide users with adequate tools and a
philosophy of use that leads to a comprehension of the process of enriching
computational forms of distributed communication. These computational forms
involve statistical and heuristic knowledge structures. Knowledge systems will
enable the use-philosophy in innovative ways and thus provide market
competition through implementation of the universally agreed on philosophy of
use. The world changes in a certain way, and the information technology that we
now have becomes transparent to productive use in ways that have nothing to do
with computers.
Since
information context can often be lost, there is a need for a theory of
interpretive control and a notational system that provides a means to express
this control. The BCN Group already has a mature software system, the Tonfoni system, that supports context
sensitive reasoning and annotation. This system has already been shown to
preserve the subtleties of context.
There
is also a need to model the emergence of meaning from substructural aggregation
of semantic primitives into wholes. To address this need we have turned to some
little known work in applied Russian semiotics and a variation of the Mill’s
logic in the context of Peircean methodology relating substructural invariance
to causes. One of the founding members of the BCN Group, Prueitt, has published
a number of papers on this topic in the past six years, and has developed a
class of bi-level algorithms called voting procedures. These procedures appear
to be able to provide precision recall graphs that are convex.
The
Computational Intelligence Lab (CIL) was opened to provide for basic research
and implementation activity required by progressive Information Technology (IT)
companies. Investigations can proceed without the harassment that generally
comes from funding managers focused on short-term issues. The CIL is also
seeking contracts with government agencies for specific services.
Universities
should consider the development of graduate concentrations in Knowledge Management. We hope to make
contributions to the development of this concentration.
The
funding lapsed in 2000 for the CIL.
However, the new proposal would re-establish the CIL at some university.
Proposal for Knowledge Sharing
The
foundations to a modern Knowledge Management curriculum must include the
history of scholarship in the related fields of
1.
strong
and weak schools of Artificial Intelligence,
2.
logic,
including theories of deduction and induction
3.
software
design
4.
systems
theory
5.
neuropsychology
6.
linguistics
and library science
7.
qualitative
reasoning for context sensitive documentation management
Knowledge
Modeling and Computational Intelligence
A
4 by 4 Duplicate Document (Object) Detection formalism extends to a 3 by n
Similarity Analysis formalism. Both formalisms where delivered to the
Department of Energy, Office of Declassification, (under contract through
George Washington University) in December, 1998.. A paper "On the
appropriate scientific response to the EO12958" contains a description of
these formalism and their motivation. This paper is posted at mosaic) .
The SA formalism has three
levels
{ substructure, object, and
contextual -environment}.
The notion of an object
representation of knowledge, in the form of statistical patterns, could be
adequately capitalized as part of a commercial product, Autonomy Inc’s Dynamic
Reasoning Engine (DRE), or any of several other knowledge unit representation
software systems. (text written in
2000)
Any one of these commercial
systems can be properly annotated and substructural invariance analyzed to
establish the distribution of potential interpretations. (But see the discussion on
market inhibition.)
Leading, in importance, the
notational features of the SA formalism are: (1) the development of object
properties that can not be directly traced to properties of component parts
(emergence from substructure), (2) the development of function as co-determined
by component structure and the needs of environment or enterprise, (3)
non-trivial linkage to circumstances at a specific time and place (context)
Milestones (stated in 2000)
A.
The
implementation of a Multiple User Domain (MUD) and collaborative learning
center currently under development for the commercial sector and government
agencies. This implementation works out the computer science related to the
tri-level architecture in the web environment.
B.
The
identification of a full curriculum for Knowledge Management and Computational
Intelligence graduate concentration. The learning center will be used to teach
this curriculum.
C.
Demonstrated
use of the learning center in distance learning using curricular modules.
D.
Testing
of competitive Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) knowledge representation and
logical argumentation modules within the tri-level architecture.
E.
Hosting
of knowledge mediated conferences in the several areas of scholarship: in
particular
a.
quantum
neurodynamics and cognition
b.
knowledge
management, and