[unrev-II] Reference Materials, v0.8

From: Eric Armstrong (eric.armstrong@eng.sun.com)
Date: Mon Mar 06 2000 - 18:55:02 PST

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    META NOTE:
    In compiling this list, I am acting as a "DKR" by:
      * Condensing information / evaporating the extraneous
      * Organizing and presenting the material
      * Preserving attributions to contributors
      * Recording evaluations
    The DKR we build should make those operations as easy
    as is feasible so they can applied to every document
    in the system.
    ---------------------------------------------------

    Version History
      0.8 More contributions
      0.7 Contributions, additions from notes, organizing
          Two new sections: "Ongoing Initiatives" +
          "Teaching and Learning"
      0.6 More additions, including a booklist
          (WHAT'S A GOOD READING ORDER?)
      0.5 Evaluations section, plus list feedback
      0.4 Knowledge Management Links
      0.3 A couple of corrections, one addition
      0.2 Added bootstrap links, changed title
      0.1 Initial version

    This page provides a collection of references, starting
    with:
      * Evaluations (of references in the other sections)
      * Book List
      * Bootstrap/DKR/OHS
      * Ongoing Initiatives
      * gIBIS/IBIS
      * Knowledge Representation
      * Knowledge Management
      * Teaching and Learning
      * Ontologies
      * Organizations
      * Virtual Communities
      * Computing / Programming / Development

    Evaluations
    -----------
    Note:
      Evaluations must be by someone other than the
      original author and/or contributor.

    Eric Armstrong
      "I highly recommend Jeff Conklin's paper on IBIS."
    http://www.gdss.com/IBIS.htm

    Gil Regev
      "I especially like the Conklin's (gdss) and Shippman's
    (formality considered harmful) articles."
    Designing Organizational Memory (http://www.gdss.com/DOM.htm)
    Wicked Problems (http://www.gdss.com/wicked.htm)
    http://bush.cs.tamu.edu/~shipman/formality-paper/harmful.html

    Jack Park
      re: The APECKS paper:
    http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/tennison/
    "Back up one directory and you get all the papers from KAW98.
    Back up another directory and you get all the archived workshops.
    What a gold mine :-)" ("Especially note the work of Brian
    Gaines and a project called Sysiphus, as well as others with an
    underlying notion of ontology") Current favorite book is John F. Sowa,
    Knowledge Representation.

    Book List
    -----------
    General:
      R. Dawkins, The Selfish Gene
      R. Dawkins, The Extended Phenotype
      S. Blackmore, The Meme Machine
      C. Alexander, A Pattern Language
      E. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar
      R. Axelrod, The Evolution of Cooperation
      W. Kent, Data & Reality (1978)
      H. Rheingold, Tools for Thought
      H. Rheingold, The Virtual Community
        G. Lamoreaux et al, Learning by Doing in Markets

    Category Theory: Mathematics of Relationships
      R. Rosen, Life Itself. (Mathematical) [ref: Jack Park]
      R. Rosen, Essays on Life Itself

    Knowledge Management:
      J. Sowa, Knowledge Representation (1999)
      J. Laird, et al, Universal Subgoaling and Chunking (1986)

    Computing:
      T. Winograd, Bringing Design to Software
      T. Gilb, Principles of Software Engineering Management
      K. Al-Timimi & J. MacKrell (1996), STEP: Towards Open Systems
      J. Fowler (1995), STEP for Data Management, Exchange and
         Sharing, Technology Appraisals
      J. Owen (1997), STEP - An introduction, 2. edition
      D. Schenk & P. Wilson (1994), Information Modeling the
         EXPRESS Way
      D. Hillis, The Pattern on the Stone: The Simple Ideas That Make
         Computers Work
      ___: Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of Computing
              (Eugene Kim recc's David Gelertner's essay.)

    Bootstrap/DKR/OHS
    -----------------
    Doug recommended these:
      * Authorship provisions in Augment (1984)
        http://www.bootstrap.org/oad-2250.htm
      * Collaboration Support Provisions in AUGMENT (1984)
        http://www.bootstrap.org/oad-2221.htm
      * Knowledge-Domain Interoperability and
        an Open Hyperdocument System
        http://www.bootstrap.org/augment-132082.htm
      * Workstation History and the Augmented Knowledge Workshop
        http://www.bootstrap.org/augment-101931.htm

    Ron Goldman pointed to:
      * An Overview of OHS with pointers to important papers:
        http://www.bootstrap.org/ohs/
      * Doug's paper: Toward High-Performance Organizations:
        A Strategic Role for Groupware
        http://www.bootstrap.org/augment-132811.htm
      * A list of links to other papers by Doug:
        http://www.bootstrap.org/library.htm

    Roy Roebuck suggested these:
      * Roy's General Enterprise Dynamic Object - GEDO
        An object-management system explored, along with
        other concepts and designs at:
        http://one-world-is.com/rer/owis/
      * GEDO applied to general DKR:
        http://www.infoloom.com/
        http://www.topicmaps.com/
      * ISO/IEC 13250:1999 TopicMap standard
      * General object model
        http://omg.org
      * Force's (DMTF) Common Information Model's (CIM) metaschema
        http://www.dmtf.org/spec/cim_spec_v22/#_Toc453584954)
      * LDAP Object Model
        http://www.ldapcentral.com/
      * XML/XLL/XSL and XMI
        http://www.w3.org/XML/
      * InfoMap Multicentric Information Map
        http://www.multicentric.com/
      * Artificial Brain
        http://www.thebrain.com
      * A MindMan MindMap
        http://www.mindmanager.com
      * Interchange between knowledge tools/stores using XML.
        http://www.ms.lt/
      * General Enterprise Management (GEM) tree underlying GEDO
        A hierarchy for namespace and categorization management
        http://one-world-is.com/rer/owis/dem/slides/img034.gif

    Philip Gust suggested these document management systems:
      * Documentum
      * INSO
      * COI
        http://www.coi.com

    Paul Fernhout unearthed these:
      * Book: William Kent's Data & Reality (1978)
      * Star/Rose (Kent's system)
        http://www.bkent.net/
        http://home.earthlink.net/~billkent/catalogsource.htm
      * Collaborative Virtual Workspace, by MITRE.
        http://cvw.mitre.org/cvw/info/CVWOverview.php3
      * LXR (general hypertext cross-referencing tool):
        http://lxr.linux.no/
      * Starting points for Mozilla's use of LXR:
        http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/
      * LXR: An example web page for a source file with links:
        http://lxr.mozilla.org/seamonkey/source/gfx/src/nsColor.cpp
      * Slashdot discussion on Organizing Open Source:
        http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=00/02/02/0950230
        * "Computing's Johnny Appleseed" by J.C.R. Licklider, which
    discusses
            "Man-Machine Symbiosis"
            http://www.techreview.com/articles/jan00/waldrop.htm
        * A related paper by Lick:
           http://memex.org/licklider.html

    Rod Welch gave us these:
      * (Doug's) objectives for the Colloquium....
    http://www.welchco.com/sd/08/00101/02/99/12/22/104523.HTM#3977

      * Rod's brainchild, POIMS: (A tool for) augmenting human
        thinking, commonly called "intelligence"
        http://www.welchco.com/00601.HTM
    http://www.welchco.com/sd/08/00101/02/00/02/08/013124.HTM#L262145
        http://www.welchco.com/03/00050/01/09/01/02/00030.HTM#0561

    Gil Regev provided these:
      * Knoware: a Java applet that implements a collaborative
        concept mapping or mind mapping space. The applet relies
        on a server that stores all concepts, relationships and
        attached document, links in a relational database, and
        sends them back to the applet as an XML string. The
        applet queries the server through simple http requests."
        (Note: The applet was written by Gil.)
        Two public sites that demonstrate the tool:
        --http://icapc4.epfl.ch/knowarepub
          Public site. No cleanup or moderation. Total anarchy.
        --http://icapc4.epfl.ch/g99space
          Discussion following a workshop on multi-cultural
          design of collaborative environments.
          Includes search capability.
      * Principia Cybernetica
        http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/
      * Tom's CSCW & Groupware
        http://www.usabilityfirst.com/cscw.html
      * Concept Mapping Homepage
        http://www.to.utwente.nl/user/ism/lanzing/cm_home.htm

    Jack Park added:
      * Lifestreams
        By David Gelernter ( who originated Linda, which became
        TSpaces, JavaSpaces, and now Jini and a couple of great
        books) http://www.mirrorworlds.com/products/index.html

      * Category-theoretic knowledge models, possibly
       capable of allowing for relational knowledge bases,
       capable of representing truly complex systems:
       Many papers by Robert Rosen:
       http://views.vcu.edu/~mikuleck/rosen.htm)
       and Don Mikulecky's home page for deeper discussions
       of knowledge representation in complex domains:
       http://views.vcu.edu/~mikuleck

    Henry van Eyken pointed to:
      * Dr. Engelbart's "Air Force" document

    http://www.histech.rwth-aachen.de/www/quellen/engelbart/ahi62index.html
      * An old, 1945 article by Vannevar Bush, named "As we may think."
         http://www.histech.rwth-aachen.de/www/quellen/bush/as-we-ma.html
      * His "Fleabyte Fundamentals: Promoting more meaningful learning"
         http://www.fleabyte.org/archives-computing_to_a_purpose-2.html
             SubLink: "#Promoting more meaningful learning"

    Peter Yim added:
      * The "Language/Action Perspective" in system design. Seminal work by
         Fernando Flores and Terry Winograd which formed the basis for
    groupware
        products like "the Coordinator", various "Workflow" products (e.g.
        Action Technologies' "Metro <http://www.actiontech.com/>), as well
    as
        "CIM3" (Computer Integrated Man-Machine Manufacturing), a framework
        I started developing in the mid eighties.
      * For a starting point, use our (Winograd, Newman & Yim) earlier paper

        "Including People in Computer Integrated Manufacturing Designs" (at
           http://www.cim-oem.com/lapcim1a.htm
         Follow the references and links from there...

    From John J. Deneen:
      * A great tool for measuring collaboration progress anonymously and
         performing a "gap analysis" for seeking closure, developed by
         Charles Anders:
        http://www.strategicinit.com/

    Lotus
      * Notes
        E-mail, calendaring, group scheduling, Web access and
        information management
        http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/notes
      * LearningSpace
        Distance learning platform integrating live, asynchronous,
        and self-paced content delivery
        http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/learnspace
      * Sametime
        Real-time collaboration software solution with chat,
        whiteboarding and application sharing
        http://www.lotus.com/home.nsf/welcome/sametime
        * Domino
           Programmable using Java.

    Ongoing Initiatives
    ----------------------
    Adam Cheyer's Open Agent Architecture
    http:www.openagent.com

    Total Access System (high-performance, accessible UIs)
    http://www-csli.stanford.edu/arch/tas

    Nanotechnology
    http://www.teknowledge.com
    http://imm.org
    http://foresight.com

    Millenium Project
    http://millennium-project.org
    http://www.geocities.com/~acunu/ (same location)

    WBI (web browsing intermediary) and Java development kit for same:
    http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wbi
    http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/wbidk

    IBM's Transcoding Technology
    http://www-4.ibm.com/software/secureway/transcoder/

    The CRIT system (some open hyperdocument features using existing
    technology)
    ___TBD___ (server location is changing)

    Collaborative email/HTML (Berekely startup)
    http://www.infocanvas.com/Recruiting/xFormOverveiw112199.html

    Jack Park writes: See http://www.tunes.org
    in particluar the paper on the Arrows system by Brian Rice.
    IMHO this is the software project closest to the Rosen's ideas
    (which use Category Theory as a Mathematics of Knowledge)

    gIBIS
    -----
    gIBIS is a graphical implementation of the IBIS concept.

    Here is background on IBIS:
    http://www.gdss.com/IBIS.htm
    http://web.uvic.ca/~ckeep/hfl0104.html

    Here is an abstract of Jeff Conklin's ACM paper:
    http://www.acm.org/pubs/toc/Abstracts/tois/59297.html

    This page has a link that appears to go the paper, rather
      than the abstract, but it wasn't working when I followed it:
    http://members.easyspace.com/olove3/beleg/i_conkli.htm

    A nice diagram of gIBIS concepts:
    http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/tutorials/ConceptMaps/high/gIBIS.html

    A summary of IBIS that mentions gIBIS and points the major
      difficulty with the system: "cognitive overhead":
    http://web.uvic.ca/~ckeep/hfl0104.html

    "Integrating Voting Techniques into a Discussion Rationale
      Model-based GDSS"
    http://isdss97.unil.ch/isdss97/papers/71.htm

    Gil Regev found:
      * QOC -- a Design Rational (DR) Language kind of comparable to
          IBIS that focuses on revising the DR (rather than capuring the
          process) and promoting reuse.
          http://www.xrce.xerox.com/publis/cam-trs/html/epc-1993-106.htm

    Jack Park mentioned:
     * Constraint Graphs: A Concept Map Meta-Language, by Rob Kremer
      (A dissertation that describes the technology under gIBIS.)
    http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/dissertation/index.html

      * Relational Biology, as evolved from Raschevsky and Rosen
         (a dissertation that develops a relational calculus)
         http://pablo.ubu.ruu.nl/~proefsch/01850074/inhoud.htm
         (the pdf file is just barely readable)

    Knowledge Representation
    -----------------------
    A paper on knowledge representation:
    http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~kremer/papers/KAW95.html
    (it looks readable, although I haven't gone through it)

    "Towards Knowledge Representation:
      The State of Data and Processing Modeling Standards"
    http://www.mel.nist.gov/workshop/jtc1-96/papsaris.htm

    A potentially valuable paper on system called "Grassroots"
      that unfortunately has had the line-endings squeezed out
      of it:
    http://www-pcd.stanford.edu/~kamiya/GRpaper/GRpaper.html

    "Groupware for Developing Critical Discussion Skills"
    http://www-cscl95.indiana.edu/cscl95/suthers.html

    "Supporting Development of Synchronous Collaboration Tools on
      the Web with GroCo"
    http://orgwis.gmd.de/projects/W4G/proceedings/groco.html

    "Negotiating the Construction of Organizational Memory Using
      Hypermedia Argument Spaces"
    http://kmi.open.ac.uk/~simonb/org-knowledge/pakm96/negotiating/negotiating.html

    "Hypermedia Version Support for the Online Design Journal"
      Hell of a title, but unfortunately the link didn't work:
      Sandy Kydd, Alan Dyke, and David Jenkins. Department of
      Computing & Information Systems...
    http://www.cs.bu.edu/students/grads/dgd/workshop/kydd.html
    Last modified on: 9-Aug-1999 - 13K bytes - in English

    "Working Apart Together Foundations for Component Groupware"
    http://www.telin.nl/publicaties/1998/wat/refs.htm
    (A collection of references. Many downloadable.)

    "Capturing Organization Memory"
    http://www.gdss.com/COM.htm

    "Designing Organizational Memory:
      Preserving Intellectual Assets in a Knowledge Economy"
    http://www.gdss.com/DOM.htm

    "Formality Considered Harmful: Experiences,
      Emerging Themes, and Directions"
    http://bush.cs.tamu.edu/~shipman/formality-paper/harmful.html

    Design Rationale for Complex System Documentation
    http://lis.univ-tlse1.fr/~TAZI/Recherche/Publications/doc_nimes98.html

    Center for Strategic Technology Research:
      "Thought Leadership - Insight Lab
      The Insight Lab is an immersive environment designed to
      support teams who create design requirements documents..."
    http://www.ac.com/services/cstar/cstr_chi_final.html

    "Embedding Critics in Design Environments"
    http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~gerry/publications/journals/ker/index.html

    "Open Peer Review & Argumentation:
      Loosening the Paper Chains on Journals"
    http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue5/jime/

    "HyperContext: Using Context in Adaptive Hypertext"
    http://ifweb.dimi.uniud.it/collections/UserModeling/www.cs.um.edu.mt/~cstaff/HCTBrazil97/HCT97.html

    "IT and Hypertext: Towards a Literary Renaissance?"
    http://w1.2691.telia.com/~u269100246/hypermedia/papers/ITandHypertext.html

    "From a Web to a linear HTML document"
    http://www.scope.gmd.de/info/www6/posters/718/paper.html

    "Expert systems and CYC"
    http://www.robotwisdom.com/ai/cyc.html

    "Practical Knowledge Representation for the Web"
    http://www.cs.vu.nl/~frankh/postscript/IJCAI99-III.html

    "Community is Knowledge! in (KA)2
    http://www.iiia.csic.es/~richard/kaw98/Title.html

    "Technologies, techniques, and disciplines in knowledge
      management"
    http://ktic.com/topic6/13_TERM5.HTM

    "ARTIFICIAL HUMAN NATURE"
      "If design can be considered "the conception and planning
      of the artificial" then its scope and boundaries are
      intimately entwined with our understanding of the
      artificial's limits." -Victor Margolin
    http://wsack.www.media.mit.edu/people/wsack/design-issues.html

    "What is a Knowledge Representation?"
    http://medg.lcs.mit.edu/ftp/psz/k-rep.html

    "Finding and Using Implicit Structure in Human-Organized
      Spatial Layouts of Information"
    http://info.sigchi.acm.org/sigchi/chi95/Electronic/documnts/papers/fms_bdy.htm

    Knowledge Management
    --------------------
    Autonomy (KM systems)
    http://www.autonomy.com/knowledge/index.html

    Knowledge Management Consortium
    http://www.km.org/

    Dataware Knowledge Management Suite
    http://www.dataware.com/products/available.htm#kms

    Product Sampler for Knowledge Management Tools
    (A collection of links to KM tools)
    http://www.carelife.com/km/km_tools.html

    PolyDoc -- technologies for Knowledge Management
    http://www.polydoc.com/polyweb/docs/prod.shtml

    TheBrain.com -- a user interface that organizes digital
    information in a single, visual structure.
    http://www.thebrain.com/

    Collection of pages on Groupware
    http://www.insead.fr/CALT/Encyclopedia/ComputerSciences/Groupware/Workflow/

    IBM Knowledge Management
    http://www-4.ibm.com/software/data/knowledge/

    Knowledge Management "Metazine" from Knowledge Transfer Int'l
    http://www.ktic.com/

    Domain Knowledge Inc.
    "enables users from all levels of an organization to perform detailed
    process documentation and knowledge management"
    http://www.domainknowledgeinc.com/

    Roy Peas' knowledge network site:
    http://kn.cilt.org

    Teaching and Learning
    ---------------------------
    Roy Peas' site for innovative K14 teaching:
    http://cilt.org

    Jim Spohrer's "Education Object Economy":
    http://www.eoe.org
    http://merlot.csuchico.edu
    http://jcampus.org
    http://eoe.worldboard.org

    Werner Schaer's Software Productivity Consortium:
    http://www.software.org

    Ontologies
    ----------
    "Java Ontology Browser" (a working applet)
    http://igd.rz-berlin.mpg.de/~www/oe/mbo.html

    "APECKS: A Tool to Support Living Ontologies"
      Listed here, but their links appear to be broken:
    http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/tennison/
    http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/KAW98/ (All papers from KAW98)
    http://ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/KAW/ (Archived workshops)

    "Ontology FRAME-ONTOLOGY"
    http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~entprise/enterprise/ontology-code/frame-ontology/index.html

    "An Ontology for Engineering Mathematics"
    http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/knowledge-sharing/papers/engmath.html

    "How We Might Reach Agreement on Shared Ontologies:
      A Fundamental Approach"
    http://dkm.site.uottawa.ca/ontologies/OntologyPapersBySkuce/StanfOntolWshop.html

    "An Ontology Tool for Query Formulation in an Agent-Based
      Context"
    http://www.engr.sc.edu/research/CIT/CoopIS/papers97/CoopIS97-Kuha.html

    Modeling for Natural Language Understanding
    http://mbi.dkfz-heidelberg.de/helios/doc/nlp/Baud93a.html

    "Ontology Acquisition: Situated Development"
    http://crl.nmsu.edu/Research/Projects/mikro/htmls/ijcai95-htmls/node6.html

    "Ontology Definitions" (part of a slide presentation
      that is supposed to go on to cover "Ontological
      Enterprise Modeling"
    http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~boley/ontenmo/ont1.html

    Book: Laird John, Rosenbloom Paul & Newell Allen:
      UNIVERSAL SUBGOALING AND CHUNKING (Kluwer Academics, 1986)
      "The book describes in detail an architecture (SOAR) for
      general intelligence..."
    http://www.scaruffi.com/mind/l.html

    Software Agent Technologies
    http://www.labs.bt.com/projects/agents/publish/papers/sat_report.htm

    "Modeling and Simulation Literature"
    A collection of links:
    http://gecko.uni-koblenz.de/lemosim/literature.htm

    "Knowledge and Hypermedia"
      "World Wide Knowledge Web. concept maps on the Web
      (Gaines and Shaw) separate from documents. simple
      "semantic network" approach. MIME type and helper... "
    Another great title with a link that failed.
    http://www.cms.dmu.ac.uk/~jmc/Knowhyp/knowhyp9.html

    "AI on the Web"
    Huge collection of links.
    http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/staff/asga/ai.html

    "Cyc: The Wright Manhattan Project for AI"
    http://alumni.engin.umich.edu/~fritx/cyc.html

    Computer Associates' system based on neural networks:
      Neugents -- "Software that can think".
    http://www.cai.com
    [Note: Personally, I prefer fuzzy logic approaches, because
    the understanding is encapsulated in the logic. Learn the
    logic, and you acquire the understanding. A neural net, on
    the other hand, is just one big black box.]

    Organizations
    -------------
    "Transforming an Existing Organization into a Learning
      Organization"
    http://www.gdss.com/transform.htm

    "Blending Cultural Transformation and Groupware
      to Create a Learning Organization"
    http://www.gdss.com/learning.htm

    Virtual Communities
    --------------------
    Harry Rheingold's site:
    http://www.rheingold.com

    A Virtual Communities NIC:
    http://www.insead.fr/Encyclopedia/ComputerSciences/Groupware/VirtualCommunities/

    The Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture
    http://hsb.baylor.edu/ramsower/ais.ac.96/papers/mandviwa.htm

    Computing / Programming / Development
    -------------------------------------
    A survey of "visual programming" techniques.
    (ref. by Howard Golden on extende list)
    http://www.ios.com/~jvn/ch2/ch2.htm)

    An open source project to make Java Beans that take XML
    (DOM format) as input and pass on XML DOM as output.
    (ref. by Howard Golden on extende list)
    http://www.xbeans.org

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