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Project development standards

Navatec.Com and VisualModel.Com have introduced the following GBF project development standards with the intent of introducing them to their service provisions as from January 2010:

ISPS - Internet Systems Prototyping Service: this is a process used to demonstrate proof of concept before customers commit to design/implementation stages.

CFA - Critical Functional Analysis: is a technique used to describe information processing systems in terms of critical paths of processing functions. Somewhat like supply chain or critical path analysis, it provides a transparent means of identifying potential systems processing bottlenecks
The ECMAScript World ...


Part of the Decision Analysis Initiative includes the organization of a server-side ECMAScript forum known as ECMAScript World. Part of this forum deals directly with decision analysis applications without specific reference to the scripting language. The scripting section of this forum is known as "Power ECMAScripting". To find out more click on the image above.

GBF Standards Workshops using core ECMAScript ...

The GBF WorkShops on Standardization have accepted implementations based upon ECMAScript as the prototyping language for the development of extensions in functionality and for online demonstrations of prototypes.


Over 10 years ago the ECMA initiated and advanced ECMAScript as the JavaScript standard. Today it is the foundation upon which are based a large number of currently useful online applications and it is rated as the best script for future developments. ECMAScript is also an ISO standard.
Standards

The George Boole Foundation organizes workshops and committees to address issues of concern in the field of data, information and knowledge specifications (DIKS), analysis and description. Part of this effort includes the development of proposals for the establishment of standards to advance the appropriate and beneficial practice of digital technologies and techniques. The areas of concern include information systems, logic and languages/script functionality. The current working groups include:
  • Standards in Decision Analysis
  • Standards in Information Theory
  • Standards in Language Logic - Scripting

 Standards in Decision Analysis

The workshop on standards in decision analysis is concered with the identification of common necessary requirements in terms of data and information for the construction of decision analysis models combining a coherent logic (structure) linking real world relationships and the appropriate location of processing intensive components such as operations research procedures within the decision analysis model.

This is likely to conclude with the preparation of a manual of practice for decision analysis.


Standards in Information Theory

A fundamental challenge in the construction of realistic decision analysis models which remain comparable across applications domains is the use of a systems of knowledge, information and data set specification which remains functionally coherent. It is only on this basis that simulations, for example, can approximate reality and thereby be used to generate realistic options in support of decision-making.

Current Work

Standards in Decision Analysis

Objective: To establish set of coherent methods in structuring decision analysis models.

Reporting: First set of proposals to be made in Second Quarter 2010.
Standards in Information Theory

Objective: To establish an integrated method for relating knowledge to information structures, identification of relational determinants and specification of critical data sets. This work is progressing on the basis of extensions to Locational-State Theory.

Reporting: First set of proposals to be made in Third Quarter 2010.
Standards in Language Logic - Scripting

Objective: To review language/script logics, including object orientated program languages to extend the functionality to include full range of necessary locational-state circumstances necessary for the full description, structuring and simultation of real systems. This work depends upon a close liaison with the work on Information Theory.

Reporting: First set of proposals to be made in Fourth Quarter 2010.
This workshop is basing its development work on the approach to information theory contained within Locational-State Theory which to date provides the most complete basis for the specifrication of critical data sets, expression of relationships and integration of components into a coherent decision analysis model.

This work includes the specification of the locational-state file structure (*.lsf) and a complete set of drivers for the autiting and the conversion of *.lsf files.


Standards in Language Logic - Scripting

A fundamental challenge in the construction of realistic decision analysis models is that the programming language or cripting language be able to capture real world circumstances. Locational-state theory, broadly based upon cascades of truth tables which change according to circumstances has identified a range of missing functionality or concepts. Although object orientated programming (OOP) started out in the 1950s as a basis for improving simulation and a concern with heterogeneity, the more recent advance of OOP languages and scripts (1979-2009) has been more attuned to debugging logical inconsistencies and program sequence errors.

This workshop's efforts are orinetated towards the addition of specfic functionality to improve the ability of the OOP to address real world circumstances in decision analysis models. This means that the language needs to provide logical glue for the construction of models as well as ability to present and receive data in an appropriate form to and from process-intensive components of decision analysis models.

In this way separate decision anaklysis models will remain comparable across different applications domains through the use of coherent systems of knowledge, information and data set specification (see information theory) which remains functionally coherent. It is only on this basis that simulations, for example, can approximate reality and thereby be used to generate realistic options in support of decision-making.

In order to prototype the proposed additional functionality to include online applications this workshop will use server end implementations of ECMAScript (JavaScript) in order to obtain an adequate processing and response speed. Demonstrations of functionality proposals (introduction of standards) will be demonstrated online as part of the GBF Decision Analysis Initiative.