by Dave McComb | Nov 1, 2012 | The Whiteboard
Great question. This is an ongoing challenge because different parts of a company use terms differently. One rule of thumb is to avoid using terms that have many different meanings across the company – this will just cause confusion. Things can be set up so that local...
by Dave McComb | Oct 31, 2012 | The Whiteboard
I will answer this in the context of OWL ontologies where the errors are found using Hermit or Fact++ as the inference engine. I happen to use Protégé, but other ontology tools have similar functionality. There are a few cases. First, if the ontology is inconsistent,...
by Dave McComb | Oct 29, 2012 | The Whiteboard
Yes. Check out http://oeg-lia3.dia.fi.upm.es/oops/. The authors looked through the literature and discovered 29 common pitfalls that arise when building ontologies. Code has been written to automatically find 21 of the 29 pitfalls. Try it out and give the authors...
by Dave McComb | Aug 2, 2012 | The Whiteboard
Workers, professionals and managers are all becoming acutely aware of the discrepancy between the performance of consumer based technology and their internal IT department. The gap between the information and services they can get for ‘free’ on the web vs....
by Dave McComb | Jul 7, 2012 | The Whiteboard
gist is a minimalist upper ontology designed to aid the production of business oriented ontologies. It does not stand for anything; it is a word, meaning “a general understanding.” gist is freely available at www.semanticarts.com/gist and is licensed...
by Dave McComb | Jun 22, 2012 | The Whiteboard
Semantic technologies will create incremental value by making us more perceptive, intelligent and collaborative learners. The knowledge modeling capabilities of semantic technology will encourage us to create abstract models of our ideas, run simulations to evaluate...
by Dave McComb | Jun 8, 2012 | The Whiteboard
Semantic technology makes us more effective, efficient and strategic. Effectiveness. A system that can easily be modeled to reflect the way you think or the processes you manage, increases your effectiveness. You can solve problems faster because you can quickly apply...
by Dave McComb | May 18, 2012 | The Whiteboard
They can be the same software. That isn’t the essential difference. There are many exceptions and edge cases but the central difference in moving from on premise to SaaS is that you are moving from a large capital budget item that takes a long time to approve to...
by Dave McComb | May 17, 2012 | The Whiteboard
It mostly depends on whether you are the cloudor or the cloudee. If you are consuming cloud services theoretically there isn’t much difference, but practically there is. You will likely be paying more for a private cloud (not so much because it is inherently...
by Dave McComb | May 16, 2012 | The Whiteboard
There are four approaches (and a couple of the can be combined). The first is to implement on top of XP compliant data bases that allow the services to accept a commit to but still wait for the final confirmation. Given the heterogeneity of most environments this is...
