SUO: Intelligence as principle of public economy - Il Politecnico April-May 1861 - Carlo Cattaneo

["roberto bordogna" <bordogna@tin.it>]

 

For what I understand  the WG mission appears close to the idea of an ancient Italian economist: Carlo Cattaneo.

 

In a reprint of  his work  "Intelligence as principle of public economy" (Libri Scheiwiller - Milan 2001 Italy - Originally published in the  il Politecnico Review-   Vol X - LXVIII-LIX April - May 1861) is possible to read  (page 59 of the reprint):

 

"There is no work, no capital which does not start with some act of intelligence. Before any work or any capital, when things are still neglected or unknown within nature, it is intelligence which starts the job and gives them the seal of wealth for the first time.'The value of things does not reveal itself on its own. It is man's mind that discovers it', as Rusconi, an esteemed contemporary of ours [of that time] , puts it".

 

And it is now  more then ever clear  that democracy, social economic development and security are intertwined as well.

 

All the best. Roberto Bordogna.

 

 

 

 

-----Messaggio Originale-----

Da: jim.s3@juno.com

A: rtong@tgncorp.com

Cc: standard-upper-ontology@ieee.org

Data invio: 03.maggio.2002 5.06

Oggetto: Re: SUO: "Intelligence Production Process Ontologies"

Richard,

        Here's the 'Purpose' statement for the SUO effort.:

 

        Can you tell us more about your  "Intelligence Production Process?"

 

Jim Schoening

Purpose of Proposed Project:

• A. AUTOMATED REASONING: The standard will be suitable for automated logical inference    to support knowledge-based reasoning applications.
• B. INTER-OPERABILITY: The standard will provide a basis for achieving Inter-Operability among various software and database applications.
  • 1) Application developers can define new data elements in terms of a common ontology, and thereby gain some degree of interoperability with other conformant systems.
  • 2) Applications based on domain-specific ontologies that are compliant with this standard will be able to interoperate (to some degree) by virtue of the shared common terms and definitions.
  • 3) The SUO will play the role of a neutral interchange format whereby owners of existing applications will be able to map existing data elements just once to a common ontology. This provides a degree of interoperability with other applications whose representations conform to SUO. This entails the SUO being able to be mapped to more restricted forms such as XML, database schema, or object oriented schema.
• C: APPLICATION AREAS
  • 1) E-commerce applications from different domains that need to interoperate at both the data and semantic levels.
  • 2) Educational applications in which students learn concepts and relationships directly from, or expressed in terms of, a common ontology. This will also enable a standard record of learning to be kept.
  • 3) Natural language understanding tasks in which a knowledge-based reasoning system uses the ontology to disambiguate among likely interpretations of natural language statements.

 

On Wed, 1 May 2002 20:48:49 -0700 "Richard M. Tong" <rtong@tgncorp.com> writes:
>
> All,
>
> As a newcomer to the list I've been following the recent discussion
>
> with interest. Most illuminating! And I'd like to thank Michal
> Sevcenko for his browser. Extremely useful to me in understanding
> what's in SUMO.
>
> I have an interest in ontologies that model, what I'm calling, the
> "Intelligence Production Process." By this I mean the generation of
>
> value-added, actionable information from raw data. This has an
> obvious interpretation in the context of national security, but
> equally applies to business intelligence, and to other fields like
> investigative reporting, financial analysis, and even academic
> research.
>
> I'm not sure if this is an appropriate topic for the SUO group, but
>
> if anyone is working on this, or something similar, then I'd be very
>
> interested in hearing from them either through this forum or via
> email.
>
> Thanks, Richard
>
> --
>
> ------------------------
> Richard Tong
> tel: 510.526.7991
> email: rtong@tgncorp.com
>