[topicmaps-comment] on general event detection from OSI

[paul <beadmaster@ontologystream.com>]

What is a city for?

This is what Dimtri Pospelov (some call him the father of Russian applied
semiotics) said to the Soviet leadership in response to their command "go
and develop a science that allows one to control a city".

From a certain way of looking at the general question of event detection -
as applied to a specific domain of inquiry - we are in a similar position.
We are asked to develop a science that allows one to see and control
information flow.

What will such a science do to the issues like ENRON and insider trading,
and the deception of the media and etc...  advertising and shallow
commercialism? What about cyber terrorism, and the tracking of terror
groups?

Nan recently wrote into the Einstein Institute forum

"Funding for activities outside the company's business--here I mean
what it says it does, say retail sales--is very difficult to get.
Even if the activity is one that supports the business--say making
signs and display materials for the stores, or developing software
to manage inventory.

That is not to say that creative "discovery" isn't being done in
traditional businesses. It is, but I think it is being done by folks
who are not recognized for their contributions and who are working
without the support of community. "

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and her thoughts parallel my own this morning.

OSI is currently looking at four (perhaps as many as seven) separate
vertical deployment processes.  In each case, the general problems are the
same.  Mostly institutional issues such as NDAs, who gets paid and how much
and when, who is in control, who gets credit, etc.  Way down the line is the
problem that we, as scientists, want to work on and for which we feel there
is social value, and a ROI.

We have to settle the first set of issues without distorying the ability to
do science, in a public discussion of foundational principles.

Up to now, Don and I have worked on the general technology without
addressing the institutional problems; taxes, stock options, salaries, W-2s
etc.  But the development environment is NOW complete and we can now wait
for these institutional problems to be addressed.  I still have 99% of the
OSI stock, and the proper thing to happen at this point is that an angel
investor, who

1) wants to do something positive with his/her money
2) is looking for perhaps 400% return on investment in two years

An enlightened angel investor would make life a bit easier, and allow such
things as my travel to Knowledge Technologies 2002 next week. If I could be
at this conference I could show the OSI browsers to the founders of the
topic maps community.  We are open to this proper thing.

We also have the not for profit foundation

www.BCNGroup.org  and www.eventChemistry.org

What Don and I want to do is not address the institutional issues but to
follow someone else's lead.  Then he and I can work on the problem of
general event detection, and properly address the visualization of data
using

1) the analytic conjecture to produce atoms and links
2) the I-RIBs to allow fast computation of compounds
3) the conversion of event compounds into XML
4) the mark-up of XML into Topic Maps and static ontology (as as the Mark 3)
5) the control of sensors so that the action perception cycle is opened to
real time control of data acquisition
6) the production of suggestive reasoning, automated information routing and
publication of findings.

So we look for verticals, from ASI, from CSI, from CTI and from ARL where in
each case the management is able to restrict their need for control to a
very specific vertical such as TraceBehavior or Cyber Security or CoreTalk,
or Open Source Analysis.

We are scientists who want

1) a ROI for long years (decades) of work on fundamental concepts and
2) to found an academic grounded school of thought

Nan, the CoreTalk notion appears to me to be the continuation of a radical
re-organization of the Internet that actually started with e-commerce
providers who developed notions of value chains and the suggestions that web
sites, that where visited during a web-based shopping trip, have the same
look and feel.  Simple and powerful concept.

The web commerce vertical is related to TraceBehavior as might soon be
developed with one of the first OSI business partnerships. Nan, I look to
you not only for a PhD thesis one day, but also some guidance on how to
develop this OSI vertical.  You know this, I am reminding you.

http://www.ontologystream.com/OS/G-PArch.htm


Visual abstraction provides a traceBehavior capability by specifically
losing all detail except as formulated in some form of the SLIP analytic
conjecture.  So we have selective attention without the confusion that the
current generation of e-commerce tools produce.  (Where the "customer" is
irritated by some company that has deployed (illegal) privacy intrusion
tools in order to try to sell the "customer" something that is embarriousing
and distracting.  Our society simply does not need any more of this junk
mail. )

So vA (visualAbstraction) provides selective attention.  It could also be
used to enforce the privacy laws, and identify those who are doing this.


The attention has focus only if there is a science under lying the
machinery.  The advertizing industry scatter shooting its message to all
citizens in the world is not the use of a science, and is not even a viable
ROI for this industry - because most people are trying to avoid this stuff.
But this scatter shooting using the statistical tools is very damaging to
the underlying moral fabric of our society AND is a indirect Denial of
Service attack on the infrastructure that could support CoreTalk given SLIP
to shine the light of day into the dark alleys of the Internet.

Clarity come form methodology and methodology is subject to government
restrictions.  The clarity cannot be left to the business mind.  First
because the science (the new "knowledge sciences") requires this degree of
clarity to be able to work the real, as opposed to illusionary, issues and
ROI.  Second because of the moral issues that the business mind so often
does not attend to.