Architecture, Data and Intelligence

Many people believe that data should provide a faithful representation or picture of the real world. While this is often a helpful simplific...

Even in DC, Authentication is a Guess , writes Gunnar Peterson, and goes on to discuss the security problems faced by a minor politician who...

In my previous post on Responding to Uncertainty , I imagined a garden equipment company responding to an event, based on the appearance (vi...

Following my previous discussion on Faithful Representation and Uncertainty , here's another example. Which of the following statements ...

How does a system respond intelligently to uncertain events? "A person may take his umbrella, or leave it at home, without any ideas ...

In my previous post, Faithful Representation , I discussed the view that a situation model represented some reality, and attributed this vie...

Systems people (including some SOA people and CEP people and BPM people) sometimes talk as if a system was supposed to be a faithful represe...

Eighth post in seven days. As regular readers will know, I don't always post this often. But I've got lots of material to share afte...