Year: 2001

Interesting “evolutionary” AI views suggested by Leon.
in Out of Control by Kevin Kelly – Addison Wesley
Quote “no logic except bio-logic can assemble a workable system of any magnitude”

Business Process Modelling Initiative in XML World
Large number of significant members (but not Microsoft).
(Compare with KnoW Project I4)

Basic Meme / Memetics References
The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins (originated term meme)
The Meme Machine – Susan Blackmore

Alternative Chaos Reference
Chaos – James Gleick

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Does God Play Dice – The New Mathematics of Chaos by Ian Stewart
Published Penguin Mathematics 1989 / 1990, Chaos reference work
Fundamentals – quasi-periodicity, strange attractors and Poincarre sections.
Lots of good further reading references too.

RDF, XML Schema and XML Meta-Data
Ref : “Professional XML Meta Data” by Daniel Rivers-Moore, Ann Wrightson, et al pub WROX.
See RDF-Syntax
See RDF-Schema
ECM-Associations / Gellish-facts / ProcessML-Templates / Sentences(tm) / RDF-statements – common ground.

AT LAST – Chaos and Complexity theories reach the public consciousness as issues for management of organisations.
BBC Radio 4 Today – Analyst looking at Health Service organisation identifies these issues as blockers to predictable behaviour.
Tiny inputs – Large unpredicted outcomes, yes, but equally
Enormous inputs – No predictable outcomes.
Relevant message – Buisness rules for information management must be held separately from purely logical / deterministic codings, because these rules may turn out to be “fuzzy”.

The Learning Machine Challenge
Spin off from the AI Forum

Management Information Systems Quarterly
Academic & Research Journal on MIS
Includes “Qualitative” scope amongst more traditional aspects.
Has Mike Myers (Uni of Auckland) on the editorial board.
Previously associated with Geoff Walsham (Judge Institute, Cambridge)