• To: 'Jeff Lowery' <Jeff.Lowery@c...>
• Subject: RE: web services stack [data + context = information]
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 15:39:39 -0600
• Cc: "Xml-Dev (E-mail)" <xml-dev@l...>

You might want to take a look at the concept of Boltzman entropy 
and relate that to Shannon's concepts on network messaging; then 
the notion of ontological commitment (when you can't be certain 
but you can test observables).

Sowa and Peirce before him point out that a problem with rules 
based system, theorem provers and the like is the certainty of 
the primitive assumptions.  As my logic teacher taught, logic 
will let you determine the validity/consistency of assertions, 
but not their truth.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lowery [mailto:Jeff.Lowery@c...]

Usability of data is probably equal to the inverse squared of its certainty 
I'm just guessing; I wonder if anyone has tried to quantify the usefulness 
of uncertain assumptions?  Bayes comes to mind.

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