by Dave McComb | Jul 14, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
Gist is designed to have the maximum coverage of typical business ontology concepts with the fewest number of primitives and the least amount of ambiguity, known as a minimalist upper ontology. A title guaranteed to scare off just about everyone; if you’re not...
by Dave McComb | Jul 14, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
What’s the real difference between necessary and sufficient? We just completed another training class, and like they say, “no one learns more than the instructor.” In this case the blindingly obvious and yet elusive pattern that revealed itself was...
by Dave McComb | Jul 14, 2014 | Software Architecture
It’s our responsibility as architects to make sure our work is implemented. We’ve been dealing a lot lately with questions about what makes a good architecture, what should be in an architecture, what’s the difference between a technical architecture...
by Dave McComb | Jul 14, 2014 | Software Architecture
Event-driven architecture as the latest buzzword in the enterprise architecture space. If you’ve been reading the trade press lately, you no doubt have come across the term event-driven architecture as the latest buzzword in the enterprise architecture space. So you...
by Dave McComb | Jul 11, 2014 | Software Architecture
Those of us in the complex sale sector need to be aware that volume operations from adjacent marketplaces will soon enter ours. The December 2005 issue of the Harvard Business Review has excellent articles by two of my favorite business authors, Geoffrey Moore...
by Dave McComb | Jul 11, 2014 | Software Architecture
Shortly after you start your inquiry about software architecture, or enterprise architecture as it is often called, you will come across the Zachman Framework. The Zachman Framework is a product of John Zachman who has been championing this cause for at least 15...
by Dave McComb | Jul 11, 2014 | Software Architecture
“Action without planning is folly but planning without action is futile.” In this write-up, we explore the intimate connection between architecture and planning. At first blush, they seem to be completely separate disciplines. On closer examination, they...
by Dave McComb | Jun 22, 2014 | Development
How do we perceive software response time? (I’m indebted to another author for this insight, but unfortunately I cannot credit him or her because I’ve lost the reference and can’t find it either in my pile of papers I call an office, nor on the...
by Dave McComb | Jun 3, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
Reflections on low-level ontology primitives. We had a workshop last week on gist (our minimalist upper ontology). As part of the aftermath, I decided to get a bit more rigorous about some of the lowest level primitives. One of the basic ideas about gist is that you...
by Dave McComb | May 13, 2014 | Semantics and Ontology
Semantic technology resources I was alerted to this site: www.semantisize.com from a comment. It’s pretty cool. You can while away a lot of time on this site which is rounding up lots of podcasts, videos, etc., all related to Semantic Technology. I got a kick...
