Colloquium at Stanford
The Unfinished Revolution

Memorandum


Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 16:23:58 -0800

From: Jack Park" Reply-To: unrev-II@onelist.com

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Subject:   DKR/OHS: 5 Authoring Requirements


Eric Armstrong wrote Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 15:38:30 -0800

Must be inflation. That sure as heck looks like a dollar's worth. Your logic appears immpeccable to me.

Follow up questions:

  • Who/what is pursing the goal of "an ontology for the Web"?

  • Which of the ongology references in the list I sent out recently would reccommend most highly? Are there others you prefer? Any good books?

If you look into the work of Brian Gaines, especially at

http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/

(which, at this moment, refused to open), you will find projects like Sysiphis -- not sure I spelt that rightly, and many others, most of which have underlying a notion of an ontology. This, BTW, was one of the links you sent that I later corrected. Lots of papers there.

Current favorite book is John F. Sowa Knowledge Representation (1999). I'd also pay attention to the OML/CKML stuff on the web(which may be one of those you sent). That appears to be category-theoretic in nature, quite possibly capable of allowing for knowledge bases of the relational kind, those capable of representing truly complex systems. To follow that idea further, you might want to look up the many papers by Robert Rosen (see

http://views.vcu.edu/~mikuleck/rosen.htm

...and back up to Don Mikulecky's home page to get even deeper into discussions regarding knowledge representation in truly complex domains.

I like Rosen's book Life Itself. Tough read, though. If you choose to go there, you're opening up what I consider to be the pandora's box of everything Doug is talking about.

Cheers

Sincerely,


Jack Park




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