CONTACTS 
0201 - Science Applications                                                                                                                                               O-00000710 0201
020101 - Mr. Roy Roebuck, Ph.D.                                                                                                                                           O-00000710 0201

SUBJECTS
NSF Grant, Initiating, Proposal
Context Management
Enterprise Management and Workflow
Operating System for People & Organizations
Knowledge Space Continuous Stream of
Operating System for People & Organizations
GEM Roy Roebuck
SDS Computer Aided Thinking
Core Enterprise Knowledge Management Chronology SDS Intelligence
Open Source Development Freeware

2112 -
2112 -    ..
2113 - Summary/Objective
2114 -
211401 - Follow up ref SDS 37 0000, ref SDS 36 0000.
211402 -
211403 - Roy submitted an initial draft of a proposal to NSF.  It is based on
211404 - his concept of Context Management to implement the goal of Enterprise
211405 - Management. Communication Metrics might fit this concept based on
211406 - prior work showing support for an Operating System for People and
211407 - Organizations. Roy requests funding from NSF to develop standards and
211408 - a freeware application on the web.  Commericialization is based on
211409 - selling consultant time.  A viable business model needs to be
211410 - reviewed.
211412 -  ..
211413 - Sent ref DIT 1 linked to this record showing initial impressions, and
211414 - mentioning detailed development of proposal needs careful review of
211415 - requirements that are now online.
211416 -
211417 -       [On 990430 sent Roy inquiry for people to work on commercial
211418 -       project that seems similar. ref SDS 49 0865]
211420 -        ..
211421 -       [On 990428 follow up. ref Sds 47 4020]
211423 -        ..
211424 -       [On 990616 submitted proposal to NSF on Communication Metrics.
211425 -       ref SDS 51 0001]
211427 -        ..
211428 -       [On 990621 Roy commented on proposal. ref SDS 52 0001]
211430 -        ..
211431 -       [On 000125 Roy commented on Colloquium at Stanford, and presents
211432 -       "One World" concept of oneness. ref SDS 57 1480
211433 -
211434 -
211436 -  ..
2115 -
2116 -
2117 - Progress
2118 -
211801 - Roy Submits Initial Draft NSF Proposal
211802 -
211803 - Yesterday, I sent to Roy a copy of the letter to Morris, ref DIP 6
211804 - 2038, that cites NSF from discussion on 990425. ref SDS 43 0752
211805 -
211806 - Today, received reply saying he is working hard, ref DRT 1 4020, on an
211807 - interesting assignment for DOD. ref DRT 1 6037
211809 -  ..
211810 - He has begun to prepare the NSF proposal.  His work at DOD provides
211811 - synergy and input. ref DRT 1 4389
211812 -
211813 -     [On 990429 sent Roy letter suggesting he contact Tom Keesling
211814 -     about possibly supporting Roy's work, after Tom's leaves the Corps
211815 -     in July. ref SDS 48 9066]
211816 - ..
211817 - I made this a separate file, ref OF 5 0001, linked to his
211818 - letter.
211819 - ..
211820 - Included Roy's copyright, ref OF 5 3906, he provides in his
211821 - letter... ref DRT 1 5782
211822 -
211824 -  ..
211825 - Roy wants to know where to integrate Welch concepts?
211826 -
211827 - He has inserted brackets for [Rod Welch] to indicate where integration
211828 - can occur.
211829 -    ..
211830 - Here is a first impression.
211831 -
211832 -      Context Management - Major Concept for Enterprise Management on
211833 -      the web. ref OF 5 0001 and ref SDS 0 9522  Roy's letter received
211834 -      on 990218 explained use of a GEM "Object Model" he has developed
211835 -      for context management. ref SDS 16 3822
211836 -
211837 -      Roy's letter on 990225 reviewed advantages of SDS, ref SDS 23
211838 -      6956, and proposed a development project based on XML protocols.
211839 -      ref SDS 23 8895  Today, Roy's proposal cites XML in relation to
211840 -      "Tree" data pattern (Hierarchies). ref OF 5 0496  On 990301
211841 -      pending issues about using XML for SDS have not been addressed.
211842 -      ref SDS 27 0773
211843 -
211844 -         [On 000124 XML proposed for Dynamic Knowledge Repository (DKR)
211845 -         being developed by Doug Engelbart through a Colloquium at
211846 -         Stanford. ref SDS 56 3551]
211847 -      ..
211848 -      On 960518 Landauer defined "context" in relation to human
211849 -      cognition. ref SDS 6 3374
211850 -
211851 -         [On 990803 Dan Palanza's bookkeeping system uses accounting to
211852 -         manage context. ref SDS 53 9654]
211853 -
211854 -         [On 000124 Roy submitted his methods to support Engelbart's
211855 -         Colloquium at Stanford on developing similar capability under
211856 -         the name of DKR. ref SDS 56 0001]
211857 -      ..
211858 -      Para 2 proposes a networked database for automated support
211859 -      of contextual awareness in devices, applications, individuals,
211860 -      teams, organizations, enterprises, communities, regions, nations,
211861 -      and the world. ref OF 5 3744
211862 -
211863 -          I guess I'm not thrilled by "Context Management"  -- doesn't
211864 -          sound sexy.
211866 -           ..
211867 -          Any thought to going ahead and sticking with Enterprize
211868 -          Management.  It could be Roebuck's Enterprise app, or
211869 -          something. Enterprise sounds more energetic than "context"
211870 -          which can still be used to explain the whole thing.  I'm just
211871 -          thinking in terms of visibility and first impressons on a
211872 -          grand scale, as Roy envisions.
211873 -      ..
211874 -      This addresses issue on 990423. ref SDS 42 3460
211876 -       ..
211877 -      On 990314 Context Management was reviewed. ref SDS 33 2592
211879 -       ..
211880 -      Study issues were identified on 990314. ref SDS 33 5280
211882 -       ..
211883 -      The grand scale reflects the reach of "intelligence."
211884 -      ..
211885 -      Para 3 generally says Context Management captures and
211886 -      provides information from personal and organizational history
211887 -      that is relevant to current needs and objectives, in order to
211888 -      solve information overload and make management effective.
211889 -      ref OF 5 8522
211891 -       ..
211892 -      Current technology, properly integrated and applied, can achieve
211893 -      the wholistic goal of Context Management.
211894 -
211895 -           *  indexing                   [Rod Welch]
211896 -              linking                    [Rod Welch]
211897 -              profiling
211898 -                  [timestamping aspect
211899 -                  of text stream -        Rod Welch]
211900 -              customizaton,
211901 -              privacy,
211902 -           *  categorization,            [Rod Welch]
211903 -              search engines,
211904 -              data mining,
211905 -              data warehousing,
211906 -              online analytical processing
211907 -              (OLAP),
211908 -              decision support,
211909 -              etc.
211910 -
211911 -         *  indexing and catagorization are related.
211913 -  ..
211915 -  ..
211916 - What about this idea...
211917 -
211918 -      "Context" to implement Enterprise Management may fit into 3 major
211919 -      groups, ref OF 5 0001....
211920 -
211921 -      1.  Language... speaking, listening, reading, writing is...
211922 -
211923 -                ... the decision making environment through which
211924 -                people "think" in applying pictures and data, as
211925 -                reviewed on 990303. ref SDS 28 1032 and in meeting with
211926 -                Intel on 950927. ref SDS 4 3840 and discussion on
211927 -                960507. ref SDS 5 1111
211928 -          ..
211929 -      2.  Pictures... seeing, impressions, emotion, ref SDS 3
211930 -          4933
211931 -          ..
211932 -      3.  Data....... numerical analysis
211934 -       ..
211935 -      On 940522 Enterprise Management, that applies POIMS concept of
211936 -      automated integration, was reported, ref SDS 2 0453, drawing on
211937 -      earlier work from 920125. ref SDS 1 4977  On 980226 review of
211938 -      IBM's iniative on Business Intelligence showed the need for
211939 -      better tools and processes. ref SDS 9 0001
211940 -
211941 -          [On 990615 developed NSF proposal around notion of Knowledge
211942 -          and Enterprise Management. ref SDS 50 4928
211944 -           ..
211945 -          [On 991222 Doug Engelbart's 1992 paper on Groupware was
211946 -          reviewed. ref SDS 54 5360]
211948 -           ..
211949 -          [...Mixed-object document integrates pictures and data with
211950 -          text. ref SDS 54 2066]
211951 -      ..
211952 -      Mainstream technology is struggling to convert pictures and
211953 -      data into language called "information" used for decision making
211954 -      (see meeting with Intel on 960627. ref SDS 8 5002).  This has
211955 -      caused a glut of information, commonly called "information
211956 -      overload" and "noise" that reduces management effectiveness and
211957 -      impairs leadership (cited in Roy's draft. ref OF 5 8522), because
211958 -      the mind needs "knowledge" that aligns information into
211959 -      chronologies of cause and effect.
211961 -       ..
211962 -      On 990422 Dave Vannier reported Com Metrics fits Intel's goal to
211963 -      use the web. ref SDS 41 8400   Yesterday Communication Metrics
211964 -      was "admired" for handling business problems. ref SDS 44 9400
211966 -       ..
211967 -      Context Management proposes a new direction, using technology to
211968 -      convert information into knowledge and ideas.
211969 -      ..
211970 -      Communication Metrics supports the language part of Context
211971 -      Management that adds "intelligence" to information, yielding
211972 -      "knowledge, ideas, wisdom and vision, under "Executive Planning
211973 -      Process," in the proposal at ref OF 5 5040, or more simply, adds
211974 -      intelligence to management, as reported by USACE on 970328....
211975 -      ref DRP 1 6172
211977 -       ..
211978 -      On 990413 defined 6 management factors that are improved by
211979 -      Communication Metrics. ref SDS 39 2635
211981 -       ..
211982 -      On 990419 Judicious Review was formulated as guidance for using
211983 -      Knowledge Space. ref SDS 40 3240
211985 -       ..
211986 -      The proposal might draw on POIMS, ref OF 1, and New World Order
211987 -      papers to explain concepts and applications. ref OF 3
211988 -      ..
211989 -      Context Management uses other technologies to manage
211990 -      pictures and data, to fully integrate cost, time and
211991 -      communication into a single decision support environment.
211993 -       ..
211994 -      Blah, blah, blah.
211995 -
211997 -  ..
211998 - NSF Funding Supports Web App for Enterprise Management
211999 - Freeware Web Application Generates Consultant Revenue
212000 -
212001 - Roy's last para, ref OF 5 3105, explains deliverables of the proposed
212002 - Context Management project, discussed above, ref SDS 0 7503, and
212003 - commercial planning, thus...
212004 -
212005 -      4. document through an appropriate standards body and implement
212006 -     Context Management as a Web database application,
212008 -      ..
212009 -     Our team will deploy Context Management as an open-source,
212010 -     freeware application on the Internet.
212011 -
212012 -     ...will commercially benefit by serving as consultants, trainers,
212013 -     systems integrators, service providers, and outsourced operators
212014 -     of the resultant global context management environment.
212015 - ..
212016 - Enterprise Management is the overall goal in para 1, ref OF 5,
212017 - and reflects idea to provide effective Knowledge Space for an...
212019 -  ..
212020 -
212021 -               Operating System for People and Organizations
212022 -
212023 -     ...reviewed in meeting with Intel on 950927, ref SDS 4 8226, and
212024 -     on 960612. ref SDS 7 9750
212025 -
212026 -       [On 990430 received inquiry for people to work on commercial
212027 -       project that seems similar. ref SDS 49 0865]
212029 -        ..
212030 -       [On 991222 reviewed Engelbart's paper in 1992 called for open
212031 -       hyperdocument system. ref SDS 54 2491]
212033 -        ..
212034 -       [On 000120 Doug Engelbart's Colloquium at Stanford seems to
212035 -       propose a similar "open source" capability under the title of
212036 -       "Dynamic Knowledge Repository." ref SDS 55 2688]
212038 -        ..
212039 -       [On 000217 deliverable of Colloquium might be standards for XML
212040 -       Knowledge Repository, based on OASIS experience. ref SDS 58
212041 -       0867]
212043 -        ..
212044 -       [On 001011 submitted research project to SRI. ref SDS 60 5G5N
212045 - ..
212046 - The quality management model cited below para 1, ref OF 5 2142,
212047 - fits the POIMS management cycle, plan, perform report, that is
212048 - simplified for daily details, i.e., micro management. ref OF 1 1104
212049 - This offers synergy between Roy's macro, enterprise-wide effort, and
212050 - SDS support for Communication Metrics, essential for the larger effort
212051 - to succeed, based on the power of the microcosm, reviewed on 960507.
212052 - ref SDS 5 1114
212053 - ..
212054 - There does not seem to be "study" or "research" contemplated, as
212055 - considered on 990315. ref SDS 33 5280  Funding is entirely for
212056 - development.
212058 -  ..
212059 - Implies science and utility are established.
212060 -
212061 -     [On 990615 proposal sets research objectives. ref SDS 50 3844]
212063 -  ..
212064 - Whether or not this is really so, the requirement to submit proposals
212065 - via the web, reviewed on 990407, ref SDS 38 9630, indicates science
212066 - and utility may be well enough accepted.
212067 -
212068 -     We have been wrestling recently with a problem of people being
212069 -     overwhelmed by "intelligence." ref SDS 45 0488
212070 - ..
212071 - Proposing a broad-based "holistic" web application fits with
212072 - work on 990413 integrating NSF requirements into Com Metrics web
212073 - environment. ref SDS 38 9630
212074 - ..
212075 - An open source freeware project, ref SDS 0 9522, is a good start
212076 - on commercialization, reviewed from NSF requirements on 990423.
212077 - ref SDS 42 4557  The commercial viability of freeware, also, "open
212078 - source" development, is not established by Roy's presentation so far.
212080 -  ..
212081 - A business model that generates revenue from consultant fees for
212082 - Context Management might be enhanced by evolving trends in Internet
212083 - and web practices.
212084 -
212085 -       [On 990430 sent Roy inquiry for people to work on commercial
212086 -       project, indicating strong potential. ref SDS 49 0865]
212088 -  ..
212089 - Communication Metrics can be supported as a management science, and
212090 - POIMS can be presented as a technology.  SDS can be one means people
212091 - choose to implement the standards Roy has in mind.  Not sure it is
212092 - appropriate for "freeware."  Needs some thought.  Bill or Lou or Andy
212093 - can likely create good implementations.  It's a very big job, e.g.,
212094 - Lotus Notes which Lou paid $4B to get, could be enhanced.
212095 - ..
212096 - Lynn Conway is attributed with doing this kind of industry
212097 - standard spade work for VLSI technology that launched the personal
212098 - computer industry. ref SDS 7 1368  Don't know if she ever made any
212099 - money.
212100 -
212101 -    [On 990428 Morris reviews commercial viability. ref Sds 46 3876]
212102 -
212103 -    [On 000218 open source project proposed for SDS. ref SDS 59 0867
212105 -  ..
212106 - If this is a generic Internet resource, how do the people who build
212107 - and maintain the Internet generate revenue?
212109 -  ..
212110 - If Knowledge, Enterprise, Context or any improvement of Management
212111 - increases earnings, saves time and reduces mistakes, using the
212112 - Internet or in any way, as contemplated by the proposal, should some
212113 - of the revenue from that use be applied for developing and enhancing
212114 - the capability?   Drucker points out that the purpose of profit is
212115 - enable the enterprise to innovate, i.e., to continue delivering better
212116 - products and services.
212118 -  ..
212120 -  ..
212121 - Suppose NSF says Yes - Here's some money, what will it be used to buy?
212123 -  ..
212124 - Will it write some java code for a web app?
212126 -  ..
212127 - How will XML capabilities be applied for SDS, proposed on 990225?
212128 - ref SDS 23 8895
212129 -
212130 -    [On 000120 similar questions arise for a project to develop Dynamic
212131 -    Knowledge Repository (DKR) sponsored by Doug Engelbart through a
212132 -    Colloquium at Stanford. ref SDS 55 0848]
212134 -     ..
212135 -    [On 000124 need for planning cited. ref SDS 56 8960]
212136 - ..
212137 - Will the project fund writing up standards for people to write
212138 - applications?
212140 -  ..
212141 - Will funding be used for Roy's ideas on 990314? ref SDS 33 0612
212143 -  ..
212144 - What about "study" concepts on 990314? ref SDS 33 5280
212146 -  ..
212147 - The "standards" seem wide ranging.
212149 -  ..
212150 - Who will manage the thing, in determining whether something meets the
212151 - "standards?"
212153 -  ..
212154 - How will standards be implemented?  Who will publish them?
212156 -  ..
212157 - Who will review and approve?
212158 -     ..
212159 -     On 990314 Roy discussed standards agencies. ref SDS 33 5220
212161 -      ..
212162 -     [On 990615 submitted proposal for research. ref SDS 50 3844]
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