UK MoD

Publications

• Digitalizing Uncertain Information
  The paper sketches some initial results from an ongoing project to develop an ontology-based digital form for representing uncertain information. We frame this work as a journey from lower to higher levels of digital maturity across a technology divide. The paper first sets a baseline by describing the basic challenges any project dealing with digital uncertainty faces. It then describes how the project is facing them. It shows firstly how an extensional ontology (such as the BORO Foundational Ontology or the Information Exchange Standard) can be extended with a Lewisian counterpart approach to formalizing uncertainty that is adapted to computing. And then it shows how this is expressive enough to handle the challenges.
• Meta-Regimenting Extensionalism
  A presentation to raise awareness of what extensionalism is
  

  • to raise awareness of the connection with formality and computability
  • to make clear extensionalism has a role as an engineering tool for examining critical data infrastructure
  • where it enables us to uncover the implicit underpinnings of critical data infrastructure on the way, to make clear:
    • the concern that
      • so-called ‘theories of meaning’ fail to provide good enough identity criteria and
      • ‘regimentation’ is a way to relieve this concern
  • a way to construct the underlying extensional semantics
  • to raise awareness of how meta-regimentation drives the evolution of extensionalism –
    • increasing its scope
    • by providing an overview of the meta-regimentation journey
• What is a service?
  Presentation of the report 'An Analysis of Services' prepared for the UK MoD. This describes a forensic approach to developing a common understanding of Service across business and IT. The goal of this report is to provide an in-depth common conceptual understanding of services end-to-end across the enterprise – one that encompasses business, IT and technical services and gives a picture of what, in essence, a service is. Prepared for the UK MoD in 2010.