by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Loose coupling has been a Holy Grail for systems developers for generations. The virtues of loose coupling have been widely lauded, yet there has been little description about what is needed to achieve loose coupling. In this paper we describe our observations from...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Encarta defines veracity as “the truth, accuracy or precision of something” and that seems like a pretty good place to start. Our systems don’t model uncertainty very well, and yet that is exactly what we deal with on a day-to-day basis. This paper examines one aspect...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
In this write up I’ll try to capture the tone of the conference, what seemed to be important and what some of the more interesting presentations were. This was the first ever Conference on Service Oriented Computing. In some ways it was reminiscent of the first...
by Dave McComb | Jun 5, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
As service oriented architecture (SOA) begins to become widely adopted through organizations, there will be major dislocations in the balance of power and control within IS organizations. As service oriented architecture (SOA) begins to become widely adopted through...
by Dave McComb | Jun 2, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Although there are at least seven levels of granularity to “shared services,” little time has been spent to categorize these. My observation is that although there are at least seven levels of granularity to “shared services,” little time has been spent to categorize...
by Dave McComb | Feb 15, 2015 | Semantics and Ontology, White Papers
Encyclopedias are generally not intended to help with definition. An encyclopedia is useful in that once you know what something means, you can find out what else is known about it. Semantics is predicated on the idea of good definitions. However, most definitions are...
