CONTACTS 
0201 - Los Alamos National Labatory         505 665 0134
020101 - Mr. John Hogden
020102 - hogden@lanl.gov

SUBJECTS
Demo SDS via Web Site             ~
Locate Decision Maker
Subject Indexing
Alliances on Development
Computational Linguistics

0907 -    ..
0908 - Summary/Objective
0909 -
090901 - Follow up ref SDS 6 0000, ref SDS 5 0000.
090902 -
090903 - Received letter from Jack Park today suggesting followers of the
090904 - Colloquium at Stanford investigate the Los Alamos National Laboratory
090905 - (LANL) web site for ideas on technology to support Knowledge
090906 - Management.
090907 -
090908 - Sent a letter, ref DIT 1 0001, to John Hogden at LANL, who is listed
090909 - as a contact on a project.
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090913 -  ..
090914 - CIC3 May Fit SDS and Com Metrics for Common Development
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090916 - LANL is working on Knowledge Management, and John seems to be a
090917 - lead on part of it based on their web site...
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090919 -
090920 -              http://www.c3.lanl.gov/cic3/teams/knowledge/
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090923 - LANL's web location identifies several initiatives that may fit with
090924 - SDS capabilities and objectives.
090925 -
090926 -       [On 000316 John asked if this information has been reviewed.
090927 -       ref SDS 8 4356
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090929 -
090930 -   Distributed Knowledge Systems:
090931 -
090932 -      ...adaptive information systems, linguistic and document
090933 -      analysis, knowledge-based ontologies and collaborative
090934 -      environments.  This work is further explained at...
090935 -
090936 -
090937 -          http://www.c3.lanl.gov/cic3/teams/knowledge/ks_focus.shtml
090938 -
090939 -
090940 -         The Research Focus Area on Knowledge Systems is concerned with
090941 -         Distributed Knowledge Systems (DKS): communities of (human
090942 -         and/or computational) agents interacting with networked
090943 -         information resources. Our goal is to help develop the
090944 -         scientific understanding of DKS, and apply it to areas of
090945 -         vital interest to the Laboratory and the nation, including the
090946 -         organization and management of scientific knowledge systems,
090947 -         protection of the information infrastructure, and national
090948 -         security and intelligence.
090949 -
090950 -       ..
090951 -      SDS and POIMS Provide Breakthrough on Intelligence
090952 -
090953 -      This scope may benefit from POIMS theory of knowledge and
090954 -      intelligence, ref OF 1 0561, and from SDS implementation that
090955 -      makes it practical to use technology for intelligence.
090956 -      ref OF 1 1850
090957 -
090958 -      The interest in ongologies may provide help in improving subject
090959 -      management, which SDS currently does better than anything else,
090960 -      but experience over the past 15 years, shows key improvements can
090961 -      further enhance this capability.  LANL resources and expertise
090962 -      could help make this happen.
090963 -
090964 -
090965 -   Complex Systems Modeling:
090966 -
090967 -      Agent-based modeling and optimization, adaptive and evolutionary
090968 -      computation, biocomputing, further described at...
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090970 -
090971 -                    http://www.c3.lanl.gov/~rocha/complex/
090972 -
090973 -
090974 -         ...research on simulations of complex systems and development
090975 -         of applications to understand and control such systems. By
090976 -         complex system we refer to any system featuring a large number
090977 -         of interacting components (agents, processes, etc.) whose
090978 -         aggregate activity is nonlinear...
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090980 -
090981 -      Communication Complex Environment Requires Research
090982 -
090983 -      The most complex, nonlinear and confounding "system" on earth is
090984 -      a meeting, phone call or other human activity, commonly called
090985 -      discussion, conversation, speech, listening, dialog, and more
090986 -      formally described as "oral communication," for the reasons set
090987 -      out in POIMS explaining human thinking processes. ref OF 1 0561
090988 -
090989 -      This complexity makes....
090990 -
090991 -
090992 -              Communication the biggest risk in enterprise
090993 -
090994 -
090995 -      SDS technology gives the LANL the opportunity to apply expertise
090996 -      in Complex Systems Modeling to a area that impacts everyone's
090997 -      lives, everyday, all day long.
090998 -
090999 -  ..
091000 - CIC3 Work May Support Two Enhancements for Intelligence
091001 -
091002 - My letter explains the 12 year SDS record of connected information
091003 - that comprises a dynamic knowledge repository based on unique
091004 - capability to mange chronologies. ref DIT 1 0001
091005 -
091006 - Propose two possible areas this could support CIC3 work...
091007 -
091008 -     1.  We need to formulate automated means of generating subject
091009 -         structures that permit cross-fertilization of domains.  I have
091010 -         a unique way of d this, but it can be improved with the right
091011 -         kind of expertise. ref DIT 1 8160
091012 -         ..
091013 -     2.  We need to develop algorithms for aligning information
091014 -         with the historical record and updating existing connections.
091015 -         Tom Landauer's work with Latent Semantic Analysis, reviewed on
091016 -         960324, ref SDS 1 8599, suggests mathmatics may offer strong
091017 -         potential for reducing meaning drift, 960518. ref SDS 2 3734
091018 -         Again, I have a method for doing this, but it would be helpful
091019 -         to perform a continual update process.  I don't' know if this
091020 -         is practical, from reports on 000110 that computational
091021 -         linguistics cannot support Communciation Metrics, ref SDS 4
091022 -         0001, but the SDS data base makes it possible to investigate.
091023 -         If it can be done with a super computer, then it could be very
091024 -         helpful. ref DIT 1 1419
091025 -
091026 -            [On 000424 Sandy Klausen proposes the purpose of the DKR
091027 -            project is to accomplish semantic pattern matching, which
091028 -            sounds like computational linguistics. ref SDS 9 4212
091029 -
091030 -            [On 000428 Jack Park advises that Cliff Joslyn at LANL
091031 -            suggested research idea in KM, grounded in mathmatics,
091032 -            which Henry Liu has taken up. ref SDS 10 5722
091033 -
091034 -            [On 000503 Jack suggests AI operations for SDS record.
091035 -            ref SDS 11 6860
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091037 -
091038 - Provide link to POIMS. ref OF 1 0001
091039 -
091040 - Also link to review of Grove's book on Intel management practices.
091041 - ref SDS 3 0001
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091401 - Received letter from John, ref DRT 1 0001, saying he received my
091402 - letter and will respond in a few days.
091403 -
091404 -     [On 000315 John sent follow up, and I submitted a more detailed
091405 -     letter on possible synergy for joint development. ref SDS 7 0001
091406 -
091407 -     [On 000316 John expressed interest in SDS. ref SDS 8 4356
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