The Complex Systems Registry is an Open Source federative platform that has been developed within the FET coordination action Open Network of Centres of Excellence in Complex Systems (ONCE-CS) within the framework of the Complex Systems Society.
The aims of this initiative are
* to become the main Information Hub for the Complex Systems Community,
* to offer pre-installed Web facilities to all institutions, projects, working groups, ... of the Complex Systems Community,
* to guarantee the inter-operability between all installed Web sites.
Most BREs today are deployed as “decision services”, and are used in “stateless” transactions to make “decisions” as a part of a business process. A CEP application is instead processing multiple event streams and sources over time, which requires a “stateful” rule service optimized for long running. This is an important distinction, as a stateful BRE for long-running processes needs to have failover support - the ability to cache its working memory for application restarting or distribution. And of course long-running processes need to be very particular over issues like memory handling - no memory leaks allowed!
Rule-processing is just a style of computation. Of course it is used in BRMS, but it is also used in CEP. CEP systems typically employ rules-based processing to infer higher-order events by matching patterns across many event streams within the event ‘cloud’. BRMS’s use rule processing to match patterns within data tuples representing business-orientated data. CEP systems may support the use of advanced analytics to manage predictive analysis, reasoning under uncertainty and other requirements in relation to the event cloud. Some of the better BRMS’s offer similar analytics in regard to processing business data.
Some definitions key on the question of the probability of encountering a given condition of a system once characteristics of the system are specified. Warren Weaver has posited that the complexity of a particular system is the degree of difficulty in predicting the properties of the system if the properties of the system’s parts are given. In Weaver’s view, complexity comes in two forms: disorganized complexity, and organized complexity. [2] Weaver’s paper has influenced contemporary thinking about complexity. [3]
JT has posted his view on rules and decisions and how they relate. Given that James talks more about services than events, I thought it would be worth reviewing his post from both a Complex Event Processing and a TIBCO BusinessEvents event processing platform perspective.
”Decision Services:
Support business processes by making the business decisions that allow a process to continue.
Support event processing systems by adding business decisions to event correlation decisions (they are often called Decision Agents in this context).
Allow crucial and high-maintenance parts of legacy enterprise applications to be externalized for reuse and agility.
Can be plugged into a variety of systems using Enterprise Service Bus approaches.”
The main characteristic to be aware of in these tools is that BE is primarily rule-based (using an embedded rule engine), whereas BW and iProcess are orchestration / flow engines. In BE we can use a state diagram to indicate a sequence of states which may define what process / rules apply, but this is really just another way of specifying a particular type of rules (i.e. state transition rules).
The main advantages to specifying behavior as declarative rules are:
Handling complex, event-driven behavior and choreography
Iterative development, rule-by-rule
The main advantages of flow diagrams and BPMN-type models are:
Ease of understanding (especially for simpler process routes)
Process paths are pre-determined and therefore deemed guaranteeable.
In combination these tools provide many of the IT capabilities required in an organization. For example, a business automation task uses BW to consolidate information from multiple existing sources, with human business processes for tasks such as process exceptions managed by iProcess. BE is used to consolidate (complex) events from systems to provide business information, or feed into or drive both BW and iProcess, and also monitors end-to-end system and case performance.
Free or low-cost sources of unstructured information, such as Internet news and online discussion sites, provide detailed local and near real-time data on disease outbreaks, even in countries that lack traditional public health surveillance. To improve public health surveillance and, ultimately, interventions, we examined 3 primary systems that process event-based outbreak information: Global Public Health Intelligence Network, HealthMap, and EpiSPIDER. Despite similarities among them, these systems are highly complementary because they monitor different data types, rely on varying levels of automation and human analysis, and distribute distinct information. Future development should focus on linking these systems more closely to public health practitioners in the field and establishing collaborative networks for alert verification and dissemination. Such development would further establish event-based monitoring as an invaluable public health resource that provides critical context and an alternative to traditional indicator-based outbreak reporting.
Review of Yasha Levine's book Surveillance Valley. The secret military history of the Internet. " It tells a story about Silicon Valley that really isn’t told enough, and it points out some really unpleasant – but, alas, all too true – aspects of the technology that we have all come to depend on. Google, the “cool” and “progressive” do-good-company, in fact a military contractor that helps American drones kill children in Yemen and Afghanistan? As well as a partner in predictive policing and a collector of surveillance data that the NSA may yet try to use to control enemy populations in a Cybernetics War 2.0? The Tor Project as paid shills of the belligerent US foreign policy? And the Internet itself, that supposedly liberating tool, was originally conceived as a surveillance and control mechanism?"
Presented as part of “Truth, Dissent, & the Legacy of Daniel Ellsberg: A 50th Anniversary Conference Commemorating the Release of the Pentagon Papers” by the University of Massachusetts Amherst with The GroundTruth Project on April 30, and May 1, 2021.
This conference was collectively organized by the UMass Amherst Departments of History and Journalism; Special Collections and University Archives, UMass Amherst Libraries; the UMass Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts; and The GroundTruth Project, with generous support from the Office of the Chancellor.
Google henchwoman Anne-Marie Slaughter has shown far too openly how Google is throwing its money and weight around in DC.
"The good news is that Schmidt’s and Slaughter’s backfire won’t just dent her but has put a long-overdue spotlight on how much power Google and tech titans wield in the Beltway and how too few people have been willing to stand up to them. The fact that the New York Times ran a detailed, well-reported piece against Google when the editorial policies of its business section have moved strongly towards being even more pro-corporate, suggests that the Times and other media outlets have finally woken up to the threat that Google’s power over the Internet represents to them. The Times might have thought the way that Google was stomping on small blogs and politically-oriented YouTube channels was irrelevant to them. But the Google initiative to punish even major publishers like the Los Angeles Times for what Google deems to be too much ad clutter means Google has now taken the position that it can be the arbiter of what ads websites can run, which is tantamount to saying it can choke down their revenues. For anyone paying attention, this is a death threat."
Eric Schmidt, the former chief executive officer of Google, will head a new Pentagon advisory board aimed at bringing Silicon Valley innovation and best practices to the U.S. military, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Wednesday.
AP "Given Russia’s hostile actions in Ukraine, business as usual is unacceptable,” Coats said in a statement. "With American credibility and the future of the international order on the line, our actions should reflect that. This specific economic sanction will harm Russian interests in a serious way without damaging America’s economy.""
Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities to spread pro-American propaganda Jeff Jarvis: Washington shows the morals of a clumsy spammer Nick Fielding and Ian Cobain The Guardian, Thursday 17 March 2011 "The multiple persona contract is thought to have been awarded as part of a programme called Operation Earnest Voice (OEV), which was first developed in Iraq as a psychological warfare weapon against the online presence of al-Qaida supporters and others ranged against coalition forces. Since then, OEV is reported to have expanded into a $200m programme and is thought to have been used against jihadists across Pakistan, Afghanistan and the Middle East."
We know that dozens of law enforcement agencies already have drones, based on information from EFF’s Freedom of Information Act lawsuit over the FAA’s initial refusal to release the list of authorizations. And one of the biggest cities with a police department on the list was Seattle. It turned out Seattle’s city council—which oversees the police department—was just as surprised as many citizens to see Seattle Police Department’s name on the list. The city council learned about the drones through a reporter asking questions related to EFF’s lawsuit, not through official channels. After front page stories in the Seattle Times and an official apology from the Seattle police department, Seattle is now the first city to consider privacy safeguards for drone use by law enforcement.
9.3..2012 Nemokrati: "Den svenska regeringen samarbetar direkt med Saudiarabiens regering och försvarsministerium MODA. Detta handlar... om en EU-anpassad utrikespolitik, som integrerar EU:s och NATO:s utvidgning och som Carl Bildt och Moderaterna ända sedan överenskommelsen om den fattades tillsammans med övriga europeiska högerpartier 1982 i EDU velat hålla hemlig för svenska befolkningen, media och väljarna. (Allt om den kan man läsa i Sven Ove Hanssons bok Till höger om neutraliteten. Bakom fasaden hos näringslivet och moderaterna. 1985. Stockholm: Tiden.) Carl Bildts farliga utrikespolitik som riskerar både världsfreden och Sveriges säkerhet har också inbegripit att initiera det “östliga partnerskapet”, ett “svenskt-polskt initiativ“, vilket fullbordar USA:s robotsköld runt det eurasiska fastlandet och fått Putin att gå i taket ...
Categories: Military industry Weapons manufacturing companies Arms control Military-industrial complex Also see Categories: Categories: Nuclear weapons Nuclear weapons policy Arms control Anti-nuclear weapons movement
3.5.2012: General Electric och Hitachi vill anrika uran med laser. Nu väntar man bara på ett myndighetsbeslut om anläggningen för att den topphemliga metoden ska tillåtas. Kritikerna anser att risken för kärnvapenspridning ökar.
The Smarter Approach to Nuclear Expenditures (SANE) Act of 2012 will: • Cut the current fleet of nuclear submarines from 12 operational at sea to eight operational at sea ($3 billion savings) • Delay the purchase of new nuclear submarines ($17 billion savings) • Reduce the number of ICBMs ($6 billion savings) • End the nuclear missions of air bombers (up to $17 billion savings) • Delay new bomber program ($18 billion savings) • Cancel new, wasteful nuclear weapons facilities ($15 billion savings)
On NMD, National Missile Defense "I think the biggest challenge is for each and every ‘ordinary citizen’ to believe that their view on this – and any of the other ‘big issues’ facing us – is important. The biggest challenge is for ordinary citizens to fire up their imaginations and believe that they can make a difference on this and most any other issue if they take action. "
What Would a Green Industrial Strategy Look Like? Robert Pollin: Shifting spending from the military-industrial complex to a green economy would create more jobs and build a sustainable industrial base
Interview Sept 2012 (upl 28.01.2013) Reykjavik 1986 The Cold War Mindset The nuclear complex Proliferation through Atoms for peace, the US program for giving away enriched uranium to allies like Pakistan Maybe the time has come for unilateral US reductions ? (Reagan adviser Perrot?)
The company that once had no use for Washington is now the eighth-biggest spender on lobbying in the capital, ahead of not only Microsoft but also mainstays like Lockheed Martin.
May 19 2013, By LOYISO SIDIMBA AND CANDICE BAILEY BAE arms deal > 5 billion euro German corvettes, Thyssen Rheinstahl Technik GMBH 1994 < 200 million euro Thabo's commission ca 20 million euro
Blowing away the corporate-fueled smoke, McChesney breaks through with insights like these: " “Most assessments of the Internet fail to ground it in political economy; they fail to understand the importance of capitalism in shaping and, for lack of a better term, domesticating the Internet,” says Robert W. McChesney in his illuminating new book, Digital Disconnect." * “The corporate media sector has spent much of the past 15 years doing everything in its immense power to limit the openness and egalitarianism of the Internet. Its survival and prosperity hinge upon making the system as closed and proprietary as possible, encouraging corporate and state surreptitious monitoring of Internet users and opening the floodgates of commercialism.”
07/05/2010 France and Germany, while publicly urging Greece to make harsh public spending cuts, bullied its government to confirm billions of euros in arms deals, a leading Euro-MP alleged Friday. Franco-German lawmaker Daniel Cohn-Bendit said that Paris and Berlin are seeking to force Prime Minister George Papandreou to spend Greece's scarce cash on submarines, a fleet of warships, helicopters and war planes. "Mr Fillon and Mr Sarkozy told Mr Papandreou: 'We're going to raise the money to help you, but you are going to have to continue to pay the arms contracts that we have with you'," Cohn-Bendit said. "In the past three months we have forced Greece to confirm several billion dollars in arms contracts. French frigates that the Greeks will have to buy for 2.5 billion euros. Helicopters, planes, German submarines."
WSJ 20.9. "The Central Intelligence Agency operates the U.S.'s best known drone campaign against militants in Pakistan. Drone strikes in Yemen, Somalia and elsewhere in Africa are currently conducted by the U.S. military. Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, the prime m
"The struggle between the military/security complex and the financial sector comes down to a struggle over patronage." "Will Americans be so afraid of terrorists that they will give up their entitlements? Will false flag terrorist events be perpetrated i
"... 15 August 1971. It was from this date that the US gave unlimited rights to the currency speculators after it reneged on the Articles of Agreement of the IMF that had placed the convertibility of the dollar on par with US$35 for one ounce of gold. Thi
Mr. Simonette C Villabeto, Romeo M Del Rosario, and Oliva P Canencia from the institute of the Cotabato Foundation College of Science and Technology, College of Arts and Sciences, Doroluman, Arakan, Cotabato, Philippines, and University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines, College of Science and Technology Education, Lapasan, Cagayan de Oro City, Philippines wrote…
Published den 18 jun 2012 "Wisconsin anarchist Thistle Pettersen speaks to the MacIver News Service on June 6, 2012, the day after Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker thwarted attempts to recall him. The interview gives you an uncut (edited for profanity only) look into the perspective of one well known Wisconsin protester. For more on this subject, see www.MacIverInstitute.com or follow us on Facebook and Twitter (@MacIverWisc)."
Die fragwürdigen Geschäfte Deutscher Banken mit geächteten Waffen aus der Sendung vom Montag, 7.6.2010 | 22.00 Uhr | Das Erste Die Deutsche Bank Tochter DWS investiert Gelder bei der US-Firma Textron, das geht aus dem Jahresbericht 2009 von DWS hervor. Textron verkauft Streumunition, eine Waffe, die von mehr als einhundert Ländern weltweit geächtet ist, auch von Deutschland. [mehr zur Sendung]
EADS, the parent company of Airbus, says it is to rename itself after its commercial plane-making subsidiary. It will be called Airbus Group and have three divisions; commercial aircraft, defence and space, and helicopters. EADS said the move would "enhance integration and cohesion by renaming the group and its divisions using the globally recognised Airbus brand". Implementation of the change will start in January and is set to be completed in the second half of 2014.
Anna MacDonald of Control Arms speaks at the start of the ceremony for the signing of the Arms Trade Treaty at United Nations headquarters in New York, Jun. 3, 2013
The Huffington Post UK | Posted: 25/04/2013 Last year the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced that the UK was doubling the number of armed RAF drones in Afghanistan to 10 with the five new aircraft to be operated remotely from RAF Waddington in Lincolnshire.On Thursday the MoD confirmed the new aircraft, known as 13 Squadron, which were officially "stood up" in October, started flying missions over Afghanistan this week. The hi-tech Reaper drones are primarily used to gather intelligence on enemy activity on the ground, but they also carry 500lb bombs and Hellfire missiles for precision strikes on insurgents.
The Local (Germany's news in English) AFP/DPA/The Local/jcw 21.5.2012: "NATO leaders on Sunday gave the go-ahead for the new European missile shield, provoking anger in Russia. The US air base in Ramstein, western Germany, will host part of the system."
Drone Warfare Killing by Remote Control, by Medea Benjamin Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich "In this remarkably cogent and carefully researched book, Medea Benjamin makes it clear that drones are not just another high-tech military trinket. Drone Warfare sketches out the nightmare possibilities posed by this insane proliferation." -Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed "...Benjamin's Drone Warfare is the first book that reveals the vocal international citizen opposition that challenges the legality and morality of America's extrajudicial execution drones before they kill here at home." -Ann Wright, U.S. Army colonel (ret.) and former deputy chief of mission for U.S. embassies in Afghanistan, Uzbekistan and elsewhere
Generalerna chockerande rika När inrikesminister Rasjid Nurgalijev talade i duman i veckan medgav han att han själv blivit chockad när han fick veta vilka tillgångar hans underlydande har utomlands. Dessa fakta framkom under en kampanj för att ompröva höga officerares meriter. Två hundrafemtio ledande befattningshavare granskades av kvalificeringsnämnder och nittiofyra av dem kuggades. Försvarsministeriets anställda är långtifrån barskrapade. I genomsnitt tjänar de 500 anställda vid ministeriet 50 000 kr/år. Hur kan det då komma sig att flera hundra av dem är multimiljonärer (dvs. från 2 miljoner rubel, en halv miljon svenska kronor, och uppåt)? undrar Igor Jurgens vid Institutet för modern utveckling (INSOR). Enligt honom finns det element av korruption i varenda statlig upphandling. izvestija 19/5, ren tv 18/5
WSJ 2010: "At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, professor and former Navy fighter pilot Missy Cummings is working with her students to build a "Personal Sentry" drone. Under a military contract with Boeing Corp., her goal is to develop a drone th
August 2008 The US and Poland have signed a deal to locate part of the US's controversial missile defence system on Polish soil. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice travelled to Warsaw for the ceremony, after 18 months of negotiations. The agreement w
"As weaponry gets more and more sophisticated . . . I think well find ourselves more vulnerable for parts that are being manufactured by an adversary. It's really something the Pentagon needs to look at seriously," said commission member William A. Reinsc
Noah Shachtman December 6, 201: "What the 29-foot-long craft did during all those months in orbit is still a matter of intense speculation. a prototype for an orbiting bomber? platform to take out the satellite assets of an enemy"?Russian military estab
Wikileaks avslöjanden drabbar nu även i viss mån den ryska eliten. Av den senaste skörden offentliggjorda telegram framgår att Ryssland varit berett att avstå från att leverera mot S-300 missiler till Iran i utbyte mot USA:s godkännande av ett ryskt köp
"Did 9/11 make us all go mad? " "who's made the profit? Well, the arms dealers, naturally, and Boeing and Lockheed Martin and all the missile lads and the drone manufacturers and F-16 spare parts outfits and the ruthless mercenaries who stalk the Muslim
David Cronin (IPS 19.6.2010) "Some 1.6 billion euros (2 billion dollars) has been allocated to the EU's "Clean Sky" project, which aims to develop aircraft engines that emit half as much carbon dioxide as those now in use. With the funding being divided b
Conn Hallinan: "Drones are a high-tech solution to a deeply complex political problem. The longer they stalk the skies over Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia, the more difficult those political problems become. It is time to stop bombing and start talking."
By Jon Schwarz on 27/10/2015 Reprinted with permission from The Intercept. Last week, The Intercept published a package of stories on the U.S. drone program, drawing on a cache of secret government documents leaked by an intelligence community whistleblower. The available evidence suggests that one of the documents, a study ti
Jeffrey D Sachs, Huffinton Post May 2, 2016: " There's no doubt that Hillary is the candidate of Wall Street. Even more dangerous, though, is that she is the candidate of the military-industrial complex"
Представлен обзор результатов, идей и методов, связанных со сложными сетями. Рассмотрены две связанные проблемы:
- структурный фазовый переход в архитектуре сетей;
- переходы в кооперативных моделях сетей, как субстрат (?).
Рассмотрены эффекты самоорганизации во взаимодействующих системах в сетях.
S. Das, D. Panda, N. Sethi, and S. Gantayat. International Journal of Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology (IJCSEIT), 1 (5):
29-38(December 2011)