Posts with keyword: semantics

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Semantic Translation in Event Systems

Wed Oct 26 19:53:00 2011

Semantic translation is a type of event abstract that changes one event into another based on the context of the original event. This blog post explains and shows how to do it in KRL.
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On Hierarchies and Networks

Fri Sep 16 09:17:00 2011

Events create a networked pattern of interaction with decentralized decision making. Because new players can enter the event system without others having to give permission, be reconfigured, or be reprogrammed, they grow organically. Hierarchical interaction isn't the ultimate expression of the Internet, but merely a stepping stone to more powerful systems of the future. I'm convinced they'll be event-based.
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Identity Schemas

Mon Sep 11 12:18:00 2006

Mark Wahl on identity schemas(click to enlarge) Mark Wahl of Informed Control led a session on identity schemas and how to deal with them. People reinvent schemas, they use different labels for the same data, there's problems bringing these various schemas together. Moreover, a community shouldn't have to go to a standards body every time they have an identity data storage problem. He brings up Ham Radio operators. If they want to use call signs as identifiers, who should decide how that fits in? X.509 dealt with many of these issues. There are well known problems with X.509 collapsing under
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