1. The Business Significance of Upper Ontology Mills Davis Project10X mdavis@project10x.com

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Topics
What are semantic technologies?
Why now?
What capabilities make semantic technologies different?
Where is the market going?
Role of upper ontology
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What are Semantic Technologies? A shift in paradigm, technology & economics
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Semantic Technologies: Representing meanings & knowledge about things so both computers and people can work with it
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5. So, what do semantic technologies do?
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Semantic technologies model knowledge about infrastructure, information, behavior, & domain expertise separately from programs and data…
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Knowledge Plane: Semantic technologies affect all layers of the IT stack
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Semantic Bandwidth: More metadata, semantic modeling & knowledge representation, more reasoning capability
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Semantic Capabilities: Meet challenges of development, infrastructure, information, knowledge, and behavior
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Why now? Need to solve problems of scale, complexity, function, performance, and agility…
SCALE
CHANGE
MANAGEMENT
COMPLEXITY
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Why now? Need to improve economics and reduce risks across all stages of the solution lifecycle
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12. Why now? Issues of national significance demand solution
Examples:
Scientific method for in silico research
Semantic interoperability of systems and information
Multi-lingual computing
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13. Where are we headed? Value gains from two-fold to more than 100 times
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Conclusion
Where we are — Today, semantic technology is a tiny fraction of the $1.2T ITC market. Information technologies, stack architecture, and procedural algorithmic programming paradigms dominate.
Where we’re going — Near-to-mid-term, look for rapid uptake of semantic web and related open standards to solve system plumbing and information interoperability problems. Focus is net-centric infrastructure, knowledge work automation, subject ontologies, and social networks. Still issues of scale and complexity.
Where we’re really going — Over the next decade, towards universal knowledge technology, executable domain knowledge, & systems that know and learn.
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