Very much of the work being done today is still on the levels of Symbols and Logic. Take the Semantic Web and Ontologies, for instance. However, there is new research coming out, which questions this. The new direction is more heuristic than logical / analytical. Read More...

Tags: Cognitive Science, Perception, Cognition, Knowledge Representation, Concepts, Classification, Symbols, Linguistics, Text Analytics, Logic, Ontologies, Heuristics

Although Data Modelling as we know it has proven useful in many cases (the easy ones), there are certainly limits to the approach. Unfortunately, not being aware of the limits has led to many a disaster - such failed projects, heavy budget overruns, deadlines missed by a year or two, and - in most cases - much too complex logic. Read More...

Tags: Data Model, Business Objects, Financial Instruments, Case Management, Business Information, Business Rules, XML, Semantic Web, Thesauri, Ontologies