by Dave McComb | Jul 22, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
The idea of supersumption may solve some common Object Oriented problems. We’ve been doing training in Semantics and Description Logics lately, and have decided it’s worth emphasizing the concept of supersumption. Of course, supersumption is nothing but...
by Dave McComb | Jul 22, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
What history can teach us about semantics. Lately we’ve been grappling with the issue of how to get a Semantics Inference Engine and a Business Rules Engine to play nice in an Enterprise Architecture. Some long dormant neuron fired and the Treaty of Tordesillas was...
by Dave McComb | Jul 22, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
System project failures are a well-known part of systems development; however, all the potential risks of planning and executing a project effort are not. This white paper offers heuristic guidelines to help IS managers assess these inherent risk factors before...
by Dave McComb | Jul 22, 2014 | Development
Are there hidden problems with default values in software? Virtually all information systems have “default values.” We put them in our systems to make things easier for the end-users as well as the system itself. As we will investigate in this white paper,...
by Dave McComb | Jul 22, 2014 | Development
Relational databases, relational theory, relational calculus, and predicate logic all rely on a two-value truth. That is, that a given proposition or predicate is either true or false. The fact that the results of the query can be proven to be correct rests on the...
