RE: [humanmarkup-comment] New Book on a New Kind of Science

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

Thanks, Sylvia.  Excellent points!

Yes, temporal values are critical and have to be combined with viewpoint.  
It is also necessary to enable a descriptive system the enables 
multiple viewpoints which couple to affect the outcomes 
of higher level strategic goals.  Just to complete the example, 
I want to point out aspects that illustrate some of Sylvia's 
points on conditions on processes that affect performance 
such that analysis can in some cases, reveal an effective 
and simpler response than the complexity of the situation 
might indicate is possible (in short, a simple answer can 
often be found but not always):

In the example, the pilots of the escort fighters realized that the timing 
element and processes important to isolating the target were 
not simple in and of themselves, but a simple solution was
found.  They

1. Realized the bomber gunners were ineffective.  With either ammunition 
they had difficulty firing on targets moving at that speed 
and vector (from below and through the formation or directly 
head on) and tended to fire on their own squadron while 
trying to hit the jets.  The heavier ammunition was slightly 
more effective (one hit did more damage and as shown below, 
the jets were sensitive to hits if hit in the right place. 
One can contrast this with how Huey's reacted to small 
arms fire), but this was not the sensitivity that proved 
to be the vulnerability of most tactical use.

2.  The effective defense was to have to fighter escorts 
follow the jet as it tried to land.  They carried insufficient fuel 
and were most vulnerable as they slowed to land.
  
o  They had to glide in many cases (weak support)

o  The fuel used was incredibly incendiary (sensitive if hit)

o  They were not as well trained as they could have been to 
exploit the performance characteristics of the aircraft (competence).

Note well the coupling of competence and performance.  A 
speech act may have an interpretation from the ontology 
that is incorrect in context of the performance given 
the competence of the individual actor.

3.  The opposition has insufficient pilots and jet aircraft 
and could not train or replace them fast enough.   So the 
sensitivity on landing was amplified or reinforced by a 
higher level logistical sensitivity.

Note that there are multiple viewpoints and dimensions of 
timing in these processes that *couple* and this coupling 
is all important in choosing the response strategy.  One 
may or may not consider this a loose coupling, but in fact, 
it is the strength of that coupling to all elements of the 
process that made the strategy effective *within the 
time regime* of the application of it.   Changed values 
of some of these elements (more jets earlier in the 
conflict used as fighter rather than bombers, a task 
for which they were ill suited) would have changed 
the outcome.  A historical analyst would note that 
multiple stories are occurring here and that each 
with its own time, characters, motivations, flaws, 
etc. are combinatorially contributing to the outcome 
of the major storyline: the war itself.

IDEF modeling techniques and others have been applied 
to analyses of such events in less dramatic storylines 
such as enterprise analysis post performance to enhance 
the corporate learning of the enterprise.  The ability 
to successfully encapsulate the different viewpoints 
along their own performance timelines and then show 
where couplings both loose and strong affect the performance 
and timeline of higher level systems is crucial to 
integrating this learning back into corporate episodic 
memory.

len

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Subject: RE: [humanmarkup-comment] New Book on a New Kind of Science


Considering pattern recognition 
as occuring on a timeline, though, is a step forward.

ON PATTERNS WITH TEMPORAL NATURES

At 01:31 PM 08-07-2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Pattern recognition is a key concept.   
>That is why regular expressions get so much 
>mileage for so little when combined with a 
>markup tag inside a structure.   Then co-occurrence 
>constraints.
... 
>So one can't just identify a pattern.  One must 
>identify predictable patterns given where they 
>occur relative to a process (a higher level pattern) 
>to determine precisely when and how to affect 
>the production.  In short, where is it 'sensitive'?

While traditionally treated as static things, Patterns in a dynamic system 
gotta be temporal.  So beyond just recognizing a pattern as having
occurred at some time(s), there is their having 

        -   durational properties, 
        - conditions on their involvement during processes, and
        -  pattern evolution [in context(s)].

As Len says in Rex's forwarded material proposing making
a software representation of semiotic function via { signal, sign, symbol} ,

>cognitive units (you, me, artificial agents) 
>are units that are themselves part of the processes and made up of 
>the same stuff as the processes which they observe.  ... [parts of the] ... 
> "situatedness"

of our geotemporal world in which distinctive  communications are taking place
whose HUML properties (whatever those may be!) we intend to characterize
with  HumanMarkupLanguage -- which we initially assumed would be embedded 
within copies of the communiques, in the manner of XML .   A  software app
that "solved" [parts of] the semiotics entailed in a communique might be a 
new wrinkle...very xmlish, though.  The "markup" might not be text alone.


 What will that mean for HumanML?  
        - Perhaps that our definitions allow for term evolution. 
        -  That we might have sequences within a term.

These sequence things  have something of a precedent in HTML's:
                <tagX>...</tagX>                     for  prefix  and suffix
(in that order); embeddable
                <IMG SRC="..." [HEIGHT="..."][WIDTH="..."] [ALT="..."]> for
multiple components, some optional
                <A HREF=......>... </a>         for links (which have a
"solving" process underneath)
                <xL>...<LI>... * </xL>          for lists       (which have
a sequence of multiple parts)
In dealing with "situatedness", sequences are seen in scenarios
 (like Schankian MOPs, where you ask or do this before getting that sort of
answer)
 or our sometime-silent but worthy member Jorn Barger's " story-skeleton" which
(1) happens to be comprised of pre- ACT post- steps in sequence; (2) and
significantly
for discourse description,  gets us to  argument structures.   

        >>   person A tries to perform X
        >>   person B insults person A's performance as inadequate
        >>   person A feels bad
        >>   person A looks for ways to improve performance
        >>   etc

        - Argument structures ...?
(Admittedly, an argument type may admit of re-ordered presentations of its
parts.  For 
example,  Term followed by Definition or viceversa. Particular styles in
particular
language registers may use one order or another as default.)

By the way, will we be dealing with argument structures?   Mmmm... that
should be:
Do we expect to Notate argument structures with HUML?

        - For instance, will we label red-herrings, or
definition-by-example?     (discourse logic)
        - How about "moves" or "tacts" or whatever we call the
"story-structures" as effective communication, as above.
        
         We had talked about recognizing metaphors and  standard parables,
 which is one sort of  definition by example where cultural knowledge is
 entailed and significant parts (or equivalent examples) might be needed 
to avoid misunderstanding when the communique is transferred to a
 different interpretive context.
        These examples often presuppose certain expectable event
sequences:  certain temporal patterns of communication exchange.
Pattern expectations in these discourse sequences are of course
situationally conditioned, by factors including culture, individual,
communication media/"channel", ....  Where might we attach that
information?  To "person A"?  To "headers" interspersed throughout
sequences?


ON OPTIMALITY

Since we're into reading these days, re the matters Len points to in the 
paragraphs just below there are some in-depth  cases in:

Levine, Daniel, ed.,_ Optimality in Biological and Artificial Networks?_
  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ.  1997.

A couple of its chapters are by HumanML folks.
The case of language optimization
 dynamics is probed.

>
>What is learned affects what is optimized; what 
>is optimized and works is learned.  I think what 
>autopoesis says is that systems evolve to preserve 
>themselves, thus, create systems to nurture the 
>systems that enable them to create systems.  The 
>problem is that a thoroughly optimized system 
>is fragile and when the environment shifts unexpectedly, 
>often cannot adapt whereas, a less optimized system 
>may be slow but adaptive given the redundancies it 
>has to spare.   Logistics teaches to favor simple 
>systems with redundancy if the conflict is long, 
>and highly optimized systems if the conflict is short.
>
>So one can't just identify a pattern.  One must 
>identify predictable patterns given where they 
>occur relative to a process (a higher level pattern) 
>to determine precisely when and how to affect 
>the production.  In short, where is it 'sensitive'?

SC