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The process of knowing implies the
perpetual choice between
the secure return on an evolutionary body of knowledge
and the risk of a revolutionary breakthrough.
STALEMATE
specializes in knowledge-based
decision-support systems within the financial markets and focuses on
the following strategic
areas:
- development of a logical, knowledge-based,
simulation-oriented
design frontend for an agile, model-driven
software-engineering cycle within the adaptive enterprise and
the organization as
a learning system;
- design pattern-/template-oriented generation of business-intelligence
applications integrating knowledge bases, Web/data mining and
data warehousing/marts within Linux data centers;
- extension of stochastic analytic methodology through hybrid
knowledge-based
systems and data mining, exploiting the complementarity between
rule-based logic
and computational intelligence and between algorithmic completeness and
heuristic effectiveness;
- system
interfacing with respect to distributed collaborative
applications and with regard to implementation
targeted at (service-oriented) architectures involving distributed,
parallel,
heterogeneous systems, clusters and grids and evolving through
nanotechnology toward a
pervasive-computing paradigm;
- user
interfacing
directed at augmentation of human creativity
through agent-incarnated virtual intelligence and ergonomic
considerations
of human-computer integration;
- vertical application to the financial markets, specifically
financial
engineering and risk management
across classes of underlying values, including fixed income, foreign
exchange, equity, credit and commodities along with derivative
and related instruments;
- promotion of technology transfer
through a Free, Libre and Open-Source Software (FLOSS) model, divesting
intangible assets (intellectual property), ensuring interoperability
and
furthering
competition and economic growth in today's global knowledge-based
economy.
In acting as an effective liaison between the upstream
research community and the downstream industrial-user community,
STALEMATE
is committed to:
Research and Development
Strategic Studies
Virtual Collaboration
Research and Development
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In-house R & D is directed at CASE-tooling
in support of business modeling and simulation, development of
Web-oriented knowledge-based systems and data-mining and -warehousing
applications for the financial markets, and agile development
methodology. Efforts are concentrated in
two main projects:
- Development of a basic Knowledge-Based
System Design (KBSD) Environment hosted at GNU implements research in computational
logic and compiler design. This tool aims to provide modeling,
simulation and code-generation facilities. The enhanced user- and
system-interfaced version builds forth on Mozilla and is hosted at mozdev. Operating
system-dependent
integration is targeted in particular at
Debian GNU/Linux.
- KDD Lab
provides a testbed for KBSD Environment applications and is hosted at SourceForge.net. Research
around
the theme "Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining on the World-Wide Web"
focuses on Web search and data mining, data warehousing and OLAP,
knowledge bases and simulation, virtual intelligence and user
interfacing, and system integration within a pervasive-computing
context. Agile software-engineering methodology and the
socio-economics
of technology transfer are addressed. The application area
pinpointed
is computational finance and specifically financial
engineering and risk management.
The projects at GNU, mozdev and SourceForge.net are currently in the
beta requirements-analysis phase.
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Strategic Studies
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God and Golem, Inc.
Revisited constitutes a collection of strategic 'essays' to
promote investigation and discussion of
a broad range of basic issues pertaining to society and emerging
information technology. Specifically the nature, implications and
prospects of cognition and creativity, virtual reality, software and
knowledge engineering, bio-informatics,
nanotechnology and pervasive computing are considered.
When disruptive technology is viewed as the
latest
stage of human evolution, challenges arise in shaping
relevant perspectives on the individual, organizational and societal
levels:
- Can the
classical mind-body problem be re-evaluated in light of the
contemporary man-machine (human-computer) relationship? The
equally classical notion of purposiveness appears to be a property
common to human
individuals in terms of being, thinking and acting as well as to
computers and their programs. If we suppress anthropomorphism, it
would be plausible to consider a computer (program) simply as an
externalized result of human thought, specifically the solution to a
problem. and the internal representation of the
inner (psychological) and outer (physical) universe.
- the knowledge
worker within a learning organization;
- the economics of change
within society as adaptive organism.
The prime intention
is to cultivate common ground in charting the course of innovation
within
the IT industry in Post-Cybernetic Society.
Topics of specific studies in preparation will be published as they
become available.
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Virtual Collaboration
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In
providing consultancy
and system-development products and services, STALEMATE
deploys virtual
collaboration in the process:
- The KBSD Environment being researched and
developed supports group decision making, knowledge
management and training in
e-business, thus qualifying as virtual-collaboration software.
- The project-administration software
employed for system development along with mailing-list and newsgroup
support is based on open
cooperation-at-a-distance characteristic of the Free-Software
development model.
- Software deliverables are distributed through
public
servers or the
in-house or user intra-/extranet.
- Upstream products and services are procured
through public servers or the supplier's intra-/extranet.
- The forum
on this website
provides a public meeting point together with shared workspace for
participation by the
community-at-large.
Initial public collaborative initiatives will be announced as they
develop.
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