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A method is provided for processing information which includes storing in a memory of an information processing system (i) a plurality of individually identified information-bearing entities ("IBEs"), and (ii) a dictionary including a plurality of simple elements, each simple element having a meaning. A plurality of dynamic structures are stored in the memory, each dynamic structure being stored in association with at least one stored IBE, wherein each dynamic structure includes (i) at least one knowledge object including a plurality of simple elements selected from the stored dictionary, (ii) first information identifying the selected simple elements in the at least one knowledge object and (ii) second information identifying links between the selected simple elements. At least ones of the stored IBEs are processed with a processor of an information processing system, using the first and second information contained in the stored dynamic structures associated with the ones of the IBEs.
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17. A method of processing information, comprising:
(a) storing in a memory of an information processing system:
(i) a plurality of individually identified information-bearing entities ("IBEs"), and
(ii) a dictionary including a plurality of irreducible simple elements, each simple element having a meaning;
(b) storing a plurality of dynamic structures in the memory, each dynamic structure being stored in association with at least one stored IBE, the dynamic structure including (i) at least one knowledge object, the knowledge object including a plurality of simple elements selected from the stored dictionary, (ii) first information identifying the selected simple elements in the at least one knowledge object and (ii) second information identifying links between the selected simple elements; and
(c) processing ones of the stored IBEs with a processor of an information processing system using the first and second information contained in the stored dynamic structures associated with the ones of the IBEs.
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storing a user table in the memory, the user table including membership attributes of a plurality of users and identifiers associated with the plurality of users; and
in accordance with a value of the membership attribute of the user, displaying a visual organization corresponding to the layout of a base designated by a membership attribute of a user, and, when necessary, displaying only a part of a base designated by the membership attribute of the user.
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The present invention generally relates to information systems, and more particularly to a new method for managing and processing information, notably for managing skills and knowledge.
Presently, information systems based on a plurality of information-bearing entities (EPIs hereafter)—such as documents containing knowledge, portfolios of skills of individuals, etc.—, model and handle each EPI through repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules made by communities of experts. Thus the repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules are the mandatory transition point of all the present technologies in order to organize, categorize and compare such EPIs with each other.
The present systems therefore require a lot of time and personnel in order to be applied because the repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules are highly complex to define. Thus, the latter should continually be changed in order to take into account the meaning of the information which they process. The users are required to have very good knowledge, therefore only a reduced number of experts may use them qualitatively. Further, they may only manage the initially provided EPIs during the design and application of the system. Finally, they do not take into account the different contexts in which the information is processed.
Consequently, many problems are posed when:
The present information systems based on repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules for the majority of them are statistic, probabilistic, linguistic analysis systems, full text, semantic or artificial intelligence indexation systems, categorization systems and mapping systems.
These systems and methods were developed by companies such as Google™, Inktomi™, Altavista™, Fast™, Overture™, Intelliseek™, Jeeves Solutions™, Nothem Light™, Excite™, Hotbot™, Voila™, Dataware™, Meta4™, Lycos™, Verity™, Convera™, Autonomy™, Hummingbird™, Opentext™, IBM™, Microsoft™, SAP™, Oracle™, SUN™, Semio™, Inxight™, Clearforest™, Easyask™, Iphrase™, Primus™, Semantic Edge™, Albert™, Inquizit™, XYZfind™, Dtsearch™, Exalead™, Askme™, Sinequa™, Triplehop™, Xyleme™, Arisem™, Dimension5™, Grimmersoft™, Kartoo™, Mapstan™, Plumb design™, Semiosys™, Sensoria Technologies™, Datops™, Inforama™, IRIT™, Lexiquest™, CISI™, Copernic™, Lotus™ and Trivium™.
As for managing knowledge, several systems are found in the state of the art:
But all the known information systems have a number of drawbacks, which will be detailed below.
The first problem which is posed concerns their application: present systems are complex, unwieldy and long to be applied. As stated, they are based on repositories, indexes, definitions, categories, and rules, established at a given time by a community of experts who should meet in order to build, modify, administrate and use them. These repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules are used for ordering and retrieving EPIs according to unique and constant criteria.
Now, experts rarely agree on repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules because every one of them interprets the information contained in the EPIs in their own way, because each community has a use of the system specific to their universe and this imposes constraints on the contents of the repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules, because the information is heterogeneous and finally because the amount of information is large and continues to increase and develop rapidly. By definition, the systems should be suitable for a large number of experts coming from different universes. The systems are therefore complex, unwieldy and long to set up and are not suitable for all the members of the communities.
The second problem which is posed concerns the development of information systems over time. Present systems are static and discrete. As time passes, the meaning of the information changes. The number of EPIs increases in parallel. Development is increasingly fast. Systems are thus practically obsolete as soon as they are set up. They have to be redone, i.e., again change the repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules. Thus, their update makes use of repeating discrete processes on the one hand and repeating periodical processes on the other hand, both achieved by experts. These processes themselves are also complex, unwieldy and long to be applied. After updating these repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules, the EPIs classified earlier also need to be reclassified and the new unclassified EPIs need to be put away. Further, the first problem is also posed again whenever the meaning of the information changes.
The third problem which is posed concerns the understanding and the use of repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules by the different and varied communities having different levels of interpretation of the information. Thus, the present information processing systems are generally <<closed>>: they are produced by a community of experts for this same community. To maximize the use of information systems, it is absolutely necessary that the latter be well understood by the users. Presently, only communities of persons having an interpretation level close to that of experts are able to utilize the repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules with the meaning which was given to them initially. As unique and permanent ordering criteria are very difficult to find and depend on the person who uses the system, generally, at a large scale, the ordering attempt finally generates confusion. Now, in order to process all the EPIs from a unique point, the systems are however deployed at a large scale and they are increasingly open to communities external to those of the experts. The amount of heterogeneous information explodes. The repositories are less and less significative relatively to these external communities, and especially their contents often mean something different depending on the communities. The systems therefore do not fulfill satisfactorily the role which one seeks to give them.
The fourth problem which is posed, concerns maintaining or increasing the quality level of the system while extending it to several communities and/or by increasing the number of managed EPIs. Present information processing systems are centralized and administrative. They are not provided for being interactive, i.e., so that all the communities interact with each other and participate in their proper operation. A community defines its repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules according to the common meaning of information in this community. If the number of communities interacting with the system increases and/or if the number of managed EPIs increases, i.e., if the system becomes distributed and operational, then it is necessary either to reduce the fineness level of the repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules in order to make the system understandable (with the risk of having a very general system and different EPIs classified in identical categories), or increase the number of repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules to make the system accurate with the risk of having a too complicated system and similar EPIs classified in different categories. Anyhow, in any case, the global quality of the system decreases when it becomes distributed and operational.
This last problem is encountered when people belonging to different communities in terms of interpretation of information are led to interact with the system as this is increasingly the case in the system for managing skills and in the management of skills. The present systems reveal the uncertainty relating the fineness level describing the information and the width of the interpretation spectrum.
A fifth problem which is posed is that of the development of information systems and notably of a development which saves what exists and which does not interrupt operation of the systems. Present information systems are finite. When they are designed, they are provided in order to manage a finite number of EPIs of predefined types, such as documents for systems for managing knowledge, the skills of individuals in skill management systems, etc, and a finite number of communities of a predefined type such as the human resource management community in an organization. In the initial state, with the system, operations may be carried out between EPIs of a predefined type for a given community. When new EPIs are managed (such as for example training courses) and/or when opening up to a new community of users, it becomes impossible to carry out operations between the initial EPIs and the new ones without having to fully replace the system after having entirely reconsidered it beforehand.
Finally a sixth problem which is posed concerns contextualization of information in the system. Presently, the systems establish lists of non-contextualized information for each EPI. This information is not related to contexts in which they are relevant. Consequently, the information lacks relevance.
The invention is aimed at overcoming these drawbacks of the state of the art and proposing a method capable of being applied in an information system, which is based on representing any piece of information by dynamic structures of <<knowledge objects>>, themselves based on a common dictionary of simple elements with multiple eigen characteristics.
More specifically, the present invention aims at proposing a method for processing information, providing new modeling of the data and a new handling technique which allows each user whatever his/her universe, to model and handle any structured, semi-structured and non-structured EPI—as a document containing knowledge, the portfolio of skills of an individual, etc.—without having to build, apply, update and utilize beforehand repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules, without having to rebuild the system as soon as the meaning of the processed information changes, without having to rebuild the system as soon as new EPIs need to be managed, and without compelling all the users to perfectly master the system, and this by contextualizing information.
The invention thus proposes a method for processing data in a computer environment comprising processing means and a memory, characterized in that it comprises the following steps:
Certain preferred, but non-limiting, aspects of this method are the following:
Other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become clearly apparent upon reading the following detailed description, given as a non-limiting example and made with reference to the appended drawings, wherein:
In the present exemplary embodiment, the invention is applied in a computer environment used for managing skills and knowledge in a company. The present invention is preferably used from a computer environment equipped with an Internet browser such as Internet Explorer (trademark of Microsoft Corp.). The invention may also be applied in the Web client mode and the Web service mode.
A Web client system is a resource which may access the Web by means of a network interface which sends requests and receives answers to these requests. A Web service is a resource accessible on the Web by means of a network interface which accepts requests and sends back answers to these requests. This resource is formally described by a software interface contained in a service description document. The technology of Web services is recent and the state of the art is for example described in WO 00 68828 A.
It will be recalled here that the principle of present information processing systems consists of incorporating or <<placing>> information-bearing entities (EPIs hereafter) in repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules.
Conversely, the principle of the invention consists of establishing a set of simple elements (hereafter <<ESes>>) determined from repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules, and of incorporating ESes selected from this set into the EPIs. With the invention, the information containing in each EPI may be modeled and handled by means of dynamic structures of knowledge objects (<<OCs>> hereafter) and by means of operations between these structures. The invention therefore radically changes the operating principle of information processing systems.
The following part is a glossary of the terms used in the present specification.
Simple Element:
An element or ES is a piece of information stored in a memory of a computer system and defined by a set of eigen characteristics, comprising in the case in point:
(the above attributes have the same value for all the occurrences of ES in the different dynamic structures)
(the values of these attributes may be different for the various occurrences of the ES in the dynamic structures)
These eigen characteristics are given as an example and form a set of data and parameters which allow application of the method according to the invention.
The eigen characteristics may change over time. The ESes may be characterized by additional parameters such as types (for example an <<operational type>> or an <<administrative type>> in a human resource management application).
An ES is an element which is irreducible in terms of meaning, i.e., it cannot be written as an intersection of at least two ESes.
A group is of the same nature as an ES and is also defined by a set of eigen characteristics. However it has the additional property of grouping other ESes, in a non-significative order.
A group is characterized by a global mass (MG) which is typically a numerical value. This MG is specific to the group and corresponds to the sum of the relative masses MR of the ESes which form it, added to its own relative mass.
Each of the groups is orthogonal to another group, i.e., it does not cover the meaning of the ESes which make up other groups.
The groups are defined by an access level similar to the ES access level. The groups may have different scales. The scale is a numerical (or even alphabetical) quantity of the <<microscale>>, <<macroscale>> type, etc. The groups at a <<microscale>> may be handled by a user if and only if groups at a larger scale than the <<microscale>> are already handled by the user. Consequently, only the groups which have a scale larger or equal to the one at which the user is working or those which have a scale slightly less than the relevant scale are visible and accessible to the user of the system. Like the ESes, the groups may be characterized by additional types such as <<operational type>> or <<administrative type>>.
A dimension is defined by a set of eigen characteristics. A dimension is a set of ESes and isolated ES groups. Each dimension is not superimposed onto another one, i.e., the sets of groups do not have information and meanings common to each other.
The dimensions are defined by an access level similar to the ES access level. The dimensions may have different scales. The scale is a numerical (or even alphabetical) quantity of the <<microscale>>, <<macroscale>> type, etc. The dimensions at the <<microscale>> may be handled by a user if and only if the dimensions at a larger scale than the microscale are already handled by the user. Consequently, only dimensions which have a scale larger or equal to that at which the users are working or those which have a scale slightly less than the relevant scale are visible and accessible to the user of the system. The dimensions may be characterized by additional types such as <<operational type>> or <<administrative type>>.
A base is an organized set (in the case in point, a tree set) of ESes, groups and dimensions. For a given ES set, several bases may be produced.
The dictionary is a set consisting of ESes, groups and dimensions, forming together at least one base. New ESes, new groups and new dimensions may be added and characterized continuously.
The ESes are represented in a global organization scheme using the groups and dimensions so that the ESes are positioned relatively to each other in each base of the dictionary.
Thus, several bases may coexist in a same dictionary so that a user, according to the universe in which he/she is found, (see later on), sees an appropriate base when he/she is seeking ESes capable of characterizing an EPI which concerns him/her.
A universe is an entity representative of a interpretation level of the information. For example, for an application in the corporate world, there are many universes such as the universe of research and development, the universe of marketing and the universe of human resources. A universe may also be a type of job in certain cases. According to the universe in which a user is found, the system will allow him to apprehend the set of ESes (and groups and dimensions) of a dictionary according to one of the bases, designated by information in memory identifying the relevant universe. Several universes form together an interpretation spectrum.
A community means a set of information-bearing entities of the <<person>> type belonging to a same universe.
It will be noted here that in the system, there is a table of persons which indicates, besides various information of an administrative or other nature, the universes and the communities to which these persons belong as users of the system.
The density of an ES in a population of ESes is the ratio between a number of occurrences of the ES in this population relatively to the total number of ESes of the population. The use of this notion in dynamic structures associated with EPIs will be seen later on.
The concentration of an ES in a population of ESes is a notion analogous to density, but with consideration of the relative masses of the various occurrences of the ES and the relative masses of the other ESes (weighting).
Both pieces of information above may be seen as other attributes of an ES, considered in a given population.
Knowledge Object:
A knowledge object or OC consists of an assembly of ESes from a given dictionary. Each OC has eigen characteristics which may be of two main types:
An OC may be simple or complex according to the nature of the assembly. It may contain several ESes from a same dimension or from a same group. The number and the nature of the ESes which form an OC may be changed by authorized users, as this will be seen later on. The meaning of the information is therefore dynamic.
Each ES which forms an OC is characterized by its charge in this OC. The charge here is a numerical quantity of the integer type. With it, it is possible to define the significance of an ES in an OC. (Here, this is another attribute of an ES in an OC).
It is also possible to give a rank to each ES in the OC. With this, the ESes may be considered according to a concatenation, and the OC then becomes an ordered sequence of ESes.
Each ES which forms an OC is further characterized by an NIR, an NRR, a space-time state (see the corresponding definitions above).
The OC itself has also a relative mass MR (see above as regards ESes), established by a computing function of the system which assumes as a parameter the relative masses NR of the ESes which form the OC.
An OC is moreover characterized by a multiplicity order which is a numerical (or even alphabetical) quantity. This multiplicity order corresponds to the number of ESes which make it up. An OC may itself consist of OCs of a lower multiplicity order.
Dynamic Structure of Knowledge Objects:
An OC dynamic structure consists of a single OC or of a set of OCs. Each OC dynamic structure has eigen characteristics other than the eigen characteristics of the OCs which make it up and other than those of the ESes which make up the OCs or even those derived from the latter (independent or derived characteristics, as for the OCs themselves).
In an OC dynamic structure, each OC is characterized by a level. This level is a numerical (or even alphabetical) quantity and indicates the significance of the information represented as an OC in the relevant OC dynamic structure.
In an OC dynamic structure, each OC has interaction links with other OCs of the OC dynamic structure:
Each OC further has interaction links with other EPIs of different natures such as for example documents, persons, and business units within an organization such as a company.
In an OC dynamic structure, an OC may further be characterized by an activity state variable: either active or inactive, and a time state variable of the <<valid>> or <<invalid>> type.
All this information makes up as many eigen characteristics or attributes of the OCs.
Moreover the system stores, in association with each OC, characteristic information concerning its position or its change, i.e., information concerning ES variations (addition, removal, replacement or change of an ES) accompanied by time data related to these variations (dates of occurrence of the ESes, dates of change, etc.).
Each OC dynamic structure characterizes an EPI. A same OC dynamic structure may however characterize several EPIs.
As seen above in the glossary, each ES is characterized by its intensity within the OC dynamic structure. If certain ESes are more and more frequently combined in OCs, a function which returns the intensity of this ES within this OC dynamic structure may be established, the value of which will express this growth. For example, this function may be based on algorithms for iterative counting of ES groups in the different OC dynamic structures. Here, this is a dynamic attribute of the ES in a dynamic structure, calculated by the system.
Each ES is further characterized by its level of interest within the OC dynamic structure. This level is established by a function of the system which assumes as a parameter, the interest that the person in charge of the OC dynamic structure indicated upon creating or modifying the ES within an OC as well as the state variables of this OC in the OC dynamic structure.
As knowledge objects are dynamic, the OC dynamic structure changes over time and is adapted to the development of the meaning of the information or of the perception which the users have of it, of the contents of the ES dictionary, etc.
EPI (Information-Bearing Entity):
All the EPIs have characteristics specific to their type. These eigen characteristics are generally objective data as regards the EPI.
From the ES dictionary, the method and system of the invention allow an EPI to be characterized by OCs and OC dynamic structures. Thus an EPI is characterized by at least one OC dynamic structure.
The EPIs may be of very different types. For example, these may be objects of the <<document>> type based on text, image, video and audio entities, optionally combined in order to form multimedia objects.
In the applications of the present invention to the corporate field, the EPIs may also be very different components of a company, and in particular:
A vision is a set of ESes, OCs or OC dynamic structures, associated with at least one defined operation, such as a mathematical operation, to be performed on the latter.
The embodiment of the invention, given as an example below, relates to a processing information method for managing skills and knowledge in a professional environment.
Unlike the state of the art, the principle of the present invention does not consist in entering documents (or other EPIs) into repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules, but conversely, consists of entering determined ESes from repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules, into each document or other EPI. These ESes are combined together in order to form ES OCs in order to create OC dynamic structures representative of EPIs.
In order to facilitate the initial implementation of the invention, it may be based on existing systems, by breaking down the repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules of these systems into ESes so as to form an initial ES dictionary used in the present invention.
The setting up of the information processing method and system described by the invention thus includes two initial steps.
a) The first step consists of creating the global set of ESes which will form the dictionaries and their bases in a starting version, preferably by recovering and breaking down the static repositories of the existing processing systems, as indicated above. Thus, a dictionary base may be elaborated from at least one breakdown of the present repositories into ESes.
It will be noted here that, starting with a given existing repository system, several different bases of ESes may result. These different bases form different representations of the dictionary.
At the same time, and always for setting up the system, all the communities may be induced to giving the list of the ESes which they use or wish to use.
In this dictionary, groups (designated here by <<Group N>>) are formed from unions of ESes (designated here by <<Simple N element>>) with a global meaning. Once the groups are formed, dimensions (here <<Dimension A>>, <<Dimension B>>) are built from unions of groups. There may be a significant number of ESes, groups and dimensions. This number increases as the information system develops over time (and as ESes are added by certain authorized users) and extends to all the universes of the organization and to all the EPIs.
At least one community responsible for administrating all or part of the dictionary has the capability of defining certain eigen characteristics (notably attributes) of ESes, groups and dimensions, the management of which is their responsibility. As regards the ESes, they may define the names, symbols, descriptions, MRs, relationships with certain other ESes, PSARs, corresponding language, access level and scales.
For example, it is possible to define in the computer memory of the dictionary, an ES which reflects a quality or skill, i.e., a <<communicating capacity>> skill. Its name is <<communicating capacity>>, its symbol is also <<communicating capacity>> in the present case. Its description contains human quality type information (<<qualities>>) such as for example <<1) Promoting dialog, 2) Adjusting one's communication and relationships—adapt to context and to persons talking>>. In the present case, the information is used for indicating how to evaluate the NIR and NRR of the ES independently of the OCs in which this ES will be placed subsequently. In other cases, the information may be used for indicating the meaning of the ES in a detailed way. In the present case, the MR is 2, i.e., the total number of qualities in the ES. The relationships of the ES with other ESes may be apprehended by a graphical location of the ES in the dictionary, relatively to the other ESes. The <<communicating capacity>> ES is related to the <<developer>> ES through a relationship <<should be associated with>>. The PSAR is of <<level 2>>. The access level is defined at its maximum here, i.e., free access for all the users regardless of their universe. The scale is set to the <<macroscale>> level, which, as indicated, determines the way how the ES will be displayed during the browsing of the user through a base.
The characteristics such as the pointer, PSOR, NIR and NRR, space-time state, interest level, the intensity are defined when the system is operational, i.e., when OCs and OC dynamic structures are created or changed. The value of the pointer can only be found out by a specially authorized user (a super-administrator) of the system.
For each ES, group and dimension, an <<operational>> or <<administrative>> type (anyhow in the present application) may be defined as well as an access level and a scale as stated.
Once the ESes, groups, dimensions and eigen characteristics specific to each one of them, are established, stored and accessible to the users through a suitable user interface, the dictionary is generated and ready to be used. The latter changes whenever an operation, as for example an addition or change, is performed on the ESes, groups, dimensions and their eigen characteristics by at least one administrator (or other authorized person) of the system.
b) The second step consists of building, on the basis of the generated dictionary, for all the EPIs making up the information system, the OC dynamic structures and the OCs which characterize them. For this, each person responsible for a set of EPIs will create for each EPI, dynamic structures based on OCs grouping ESes from the dictionary. For each OC, a set of eigen characteristics is defined by the relevant responsible person and stored.
On the computer technique level, all the information representing the OC dynamic structures and their contents is stored in at least one database, whereas an associated database manager includes the algorithms required for dynamically tracking these structures. Alternatively, it is possible to resort to structures of the XML file type in association with Java type environments or the like.
This database saves characteristic information in memory which concerns the state and the change of the dynamic structures, and notably the time-stamped ES variations (additions, suppressions, replacements, and changes of the ESes or at least certain eigen characteristics of the ESes or OCs).
It is already observed that a same ES (ES2 or ES4 here) may be found twice or several times in the structure, with a density and a concentration (see above) which will increase consequently. As it is also seen, certain attributes of this same ES may have different values for the different occurrences of this ES in the structure.
Thus, the present invention codes the information in a discontinuous way in OCs, each OC having a multiplicity order equal to the total number of ESes which it contains. For example, in
Advantageously, the system of the invention provides the user with editing tools (<<drag-drop>> ES function from a window showing at least a portion of the contents of the ES dictionary, ES or OC selecting, duplicating, cutting, copying, pasting functions, etc.) for facilitating his/her work of designing an OC dynamical structure.
Each ES involved in the composition of an OC is also evaluated by the person responsible for the OC (typically an immediate supervisor in a human resource management application) by giving specific values to the different attributes of the ES which the person is authorized to set (notably the relative imaginary level NIR, with a value between 1 and 5—a scale which may be parameterized upon setting up the system—, as illustrated in the right column of
Other values of attributes such as <<charge>) and <<rank>> (not illustrated in
Additionally, each ES involved in the composition of this OC is evaluated by at least one other person, in order to give a value to the NRR attribute of this ES (notably when an immediate supervisor will <<note>> the skills which one of his/her subordinates has declared in the OC dynamical structure supposed to characterize the relevant subordinate (an EPI of the skill portfolio type) in the system.
More specifically, the ESes and the OCs are first of all evaluated by a person who has created them initially. This first evaluation corresponds to the NIR. Subsequently, other persons may be in charge for evaluating these ECes and these OCs, but the NRR is preferentially determined only for the ESes which are valid or active. Thus, as soon as an ES or an OC passes from a non-validated state to a validated state, or from an inactive state to an active state, the NRR is calculated by a function for evaluating the NRR implemented by the computer system, which takes into account the evaluations of the ES and of the OC performed by other persons authorized to do so.
Advantageously, the NRR calculation applies weighting according to the respective weights of the other persons which have performed the evaluation.
Subsequently, all other calculations of the system which take into account the values of the NRR attributes of the ESes or OCs are performed.
Finally, independently of the users, the multiplicity orders, the NRs, etc., are determined by suitable calculations performed by the system.
These operations are typically repeated whenever a dynamical structure is created or changed by an authorized person, or even according to the load of the computer system applying the method, at determined batch processing dates (daily, etc.).
Referring back to
As seen earlier, upon creating the OC, the creator may give values to the NIR attributes of each of the ESes which make up the OC.
The system is capable of dynamically performing many other calculations based on information contained in the OC dynamical structures, and for example in connection with attributes of intensity, interest level, knowledge conversion rates of the person responsible for the EPI, etc.
It will be noted here that it is not necessary to describe these calculations in detail, a great number of approaches may be exist when the matter is to combine together individual values (averages, weighted averages, sums, products, minima, maxima, etc., as well as all their combinations).
According to an embodiment of the invention where an EPI is the dynamic portfolio of the skills of an individual, each skill is modeled by an OC of variable size which may be linked to other OCs. The dynamic portfolio of skills is thereby represented by the OC dynamical structure established by at least one immediate supervisor.
Each skill of the individual is intended to be associated with at least one simulation of the skill, consisting of a document. The information provided by the user upon filling out this document may be transferred towards the database which manages the OC dynamic structure, towards an XML document or any other type of data file. With the method, it is thereby possible to find out, during a simulation, a certain number of attributes (for example the <<interest>> attribute) or other eigen characteristics of the ESes of an OC, or of the actual OC.
As the OCs are dynamic, the OC dynamic structure changes over time and adapts to the development of the EPI. More generally, the OC dynamic structures are integrated into the EPIs and are independent of the communities of experts.
By interacting with the system, each person responsible for his/her EPIs will give a meaning to each piece of information. The OC dynamic structure of an EPI is then created as the OCs are established, changed, characterized and coupled with other ones. Finally, all the EPIs managed by the information processing system will be characterized by more and more complex OC dynamic structures, closer to the actual and updated information, contained in the EPI.
The EPIs may notably be:
According to the EPI types, the eigen characteristics may be different. For example:
The system is operational when all the targeted environment is represented as OC dynamic structures.
A certain number of advantages brought by the present invention will now be described.
First of all, the invention is simple to make, light and quick to implement as it is sufficient to list and characterize the ESes and organize them in dimensions, groups, bases, and dictionary. It is no longer necessary to build repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules. It is no longer necessary that all the communities reach an agreement about this. Indeed, the users authorized to build OC dynamic structures are not constrained by the structure of the dictionary. The complexity, the unwieldiness and the implementation time are reduced very significantly.
The information processing system is dynamic and continuous. To add and change ESes in the dictionary, it is sufficient to do it without having to interrupt the system. It is no longer necessary to reconsider the repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules, it is sufficient to add ESes in the dictionary as soon as an authorized user makes a request for this and that this request is acceptable. The richness of the informational organization is no longer in the repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules but in the way how to combine ESes in order to form OCs and OC dynamic structure of each EPI. The development of the meaning of the information is given by the development of the contents of the OC dynamic structures.
Additionally, the system is open. The communities which have access to the information processing system use the same dictionary. However, the persons from these communities create OCs and OC dynamic structures according to construction schemes which are specific to them. With the invention, the persons do not handle EPIs through repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules specific to their universe but handle EPIs through OCs and different OC dynamic structures according to their universes. The system is independent of the observer. According to his/her level of interpretation of information, this observer handles OC dynamic structures with higher or less complexity and of different natures. The system remains invariant relatively to the addition of communities, universes and EPIs.
The system is distributed and operational. The system operates on an interactive and collaborative mode. All the persons add value to the information contained in the EPIs. Each person knows how to use the system according to his/her level of interpretation of information. From now on, the larger the number of persons using the system daily, the more performing and qualitative becomes the system.
The system is further expandable. Adding a new EPI does not pose any problem as the system does not directly use EPIs but their dynamic structures. Upon adding new EPIs, it is sufficient to create OCs and OC dynamic structures in order to be able to handle these new EPIs and to perform operations between EPIs by including them.
Moreover, with the invention, information may be contextualized (for example the <<context>> of a piece of information represented by two ESes contained in an OC with five ESes being defined by the three complementary ESes within the OC). Thus, when the method searches for an EPI having such and such ES, it may do this by taking into account the direct or indirect neighbourhood of this ES.
The OC dynamic structures have the dual advantage of having an indifferent size, and of being able to vary more or less substantially. Thus, the OCs may be quickly subject to sudden transformations, and the variation level of the OCs of a dynamic structure or of the whole of the structure may also describe the corresponding EPI: in certain applications, an EPI with a structure which varies often and/or substantially, may be considered as more interesting than other ones on the informational level.
Other embodiments may for example be described for managing knowledge, contents, processes, training courses, customers, suppliers, partners, organizations, tasks, activities, missions, events, projects, text, image, video, audio, multimedia entities, and more generally management of any object for which it might be interesting to have it defined as an OC dynamic structure, as described in the foregoing.
In association with this new description of EPIs by OC dynamic structures, the invention allows these structures to be handled so that their potential can be fully used, and while further getting rid of unwieldiness related to repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules, it being specified that there exist an infinity of achievable handling operations.
In a preferred embodiment, the present invention includes software code, called a handling engine, with which handling operations to be carried out, stemming from one or several basic functionalities (as numerous and varied as desired) provided by the engine, may be defined or parameterized at the level of an authorized user or even of an administrator, and they may themselves be combinations of simple operations (arithmetic, Boolean operations, etc.). Once a handling operation has been defined, the handling engine executes it and generates the result.
The functionalities and the handling operations are created according to the needs of each person interacting with the system. The persons may themselves create handling operations to be carried out on OC dynamic structures and by building them themselves, by combining basic functionalities, i.e., by combining different criteria (sorting operations, filters, various tests, etc.) to be applied to the ESes, OCs, and OC dynamic structures.
Thus, by means of these customized handling operations, each user may create his/her own vision of the system.
Additionally, it is possible for example to measure the similarity between two EPIs of completely different natures (for example an object of the person type and an object of the document type) by studying the correlation of their OC dynamic structures. The similarities do not depend any longer on repositories, indexes, definitions, categories and rules but on relationships between OC dynamic structures. More particularly, functionalities, such as comparisons between job profiles and individual profiles, between individual profiles, between individual profiles and between EPIs more generally, which hitherto did not give very significant results, now provide more qualitative results closer to reality.
The processing strategy used by the handling engine is specific to each functionality and the algorithms to be applied are selected as those which best correspond to the desired use in a given application.
With the system, it is possible to process operations according to two modes: a synchronous (real time or quasi-real time) mode and an asynchronous (off-line) mode. According to the synchronous mode, calculations are performed when the functionality is invoked. According to the asynchronous mode, the calculations may be performed when the power required for the functionality is available from the system.
For each created functionality, the user may apply constraints and filters, so as to only take into account in the handling operations, ESes, OCs, and OC dynamic structures which are qualified for this functionality, this in order to return a result of better quality as compared with the object of the functionality and to avoid unnecessary processing operations.
In addition, the setting up of the new data modeling of the invention based on OC dynamic structures opens the path for new functionalities and new steps.
Thus, with certain functionalities, the behavior of an OC dynamic structure may be investigated and viewed.
In this respect, it is seen that an OC dynamic structure changes over time. At its creation it changes a lot, but generally it stabilizes. With the invention, the different development phases of an OC dynamic structure may be investigated in order to better understand the corresponding EPI. When an EPI has a dynamic structure which is stabilized, it becomes interesting to investigate the behavior of this dynamic structure over time depending on the environment in which the OC dynamic structure develops.
Thus, by studying the behavior of an OC dynamic structure, we are informed on the energy and inertia level of the EPI as well as on the environment in which the OC dynamical structure develops. The energy variations are calculated from the OCs and from changes which are involved in the OC dynamic structure.
Other functionalities allow the density, the ES concentration, etc., to be measured in an OC dynamic structure or in a group of OC dynamic structures.
Other functionalities further allow the information acquisition rate possessed by an EPI, to be measured as well as the power (variation of the energy during a period of time) of an OC dynamic structure and a group of OC dynamic structures.
Other functionalities allow the relevance of the gathered information to be measured in an OC dynamic structure with respect to a request.
Other functionalities allow the average educational level of the persons responsible for EPIs to be measured for example by calculating the average NRR over the set of the ESes of the selected OC dynamic structure, the frequency of use of the OC dynamic structures, the information refreshing dates, etc.
Other functionalities allow the skill potential of an organization to be measured as well as the skill potential of each individual or group of individuals by combining all the criteria retained in the system.
Other functionalities allow determination of an <<action potential>> of an EPI, by measuring the number of active OCs, the number of inactive OCs, and their distributions.
Other functionalities are able to inform the user on the distribution of the ESes, the information fluxes within the EPIs and between EPIs, the organization level, the impact of changes, the consistence between the EPIs, etc.
More generally, with the present invention, it is possible to investigate the emergence of order at a collective level, the behaviour of individuals or groups of individuals depending on the environment, etc.
With it, it is also possible to characterize the environment in which a group of individuals move. Thus, in a highly educated environment, instability may develop under the effect of competition between two processes:
Other functionalities allow the PSOR and the interest of each ES to be calculated and more generally all sorts of calculations on attributes to be carried out.
It is understood that in a human resource and skill management application, a system of the invention allows the implementation of numerous functionalities relating to the significance, the hierarchization, the redundancy, etc., between skills.
As a conclusion, with the invention, in particular it is possible to transform all the complex, unwieldy, static and discrete, close, centralized and administrative and finite information systems which are long to implement, into simple, light, dynamic and continuous, open, distributed and operational and expandable systems, which are rapidly implemented.
Thus, the invention thereby provides a solution to the problems related to the classification of large volumes of heterogeneous information. With the invention, it is possible to simplify, alleviate and accelerate the implementation of a qualitative and expandable information processing system, which may be used by different and various communities of persons having different levels of interpretation of information. With the invention, it is possible to take into account the fast and continuous development of the meaning and significance of the information. The quality of the information processing system may be levelled from the top by the invention. With the invention, the system may develop continuously and adapt to diversity and to the high increasing numbers of managed EPIs. Finally, the information provides contextualization of information contained in the EPIs.
The foregoing description was given for illustrative and descriptive purposes. The object of these purposes is not to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to these specific embodiments but it should be understood that many modifications, variations are possible in the light of these teachings. The embodiment, as well as the practical application to management of skills and knowledge, were selected and described in order to clearly explain the principles of the invention and its practical applications and to allow the skin practitioner to adapt it to the intended use.
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I'm going to Toronto for a long weekend in a few days, and wonder if there is any place downtown that I might look at vermiculture equipment. I'm particularly interested in checking out the Worm Chalet that is Canadian made.
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Pallqaqucha (Quechua pallqa, p'allqa, p'alqa forked, branched, fork, qucha lake,[1][2] hispanicized spelling Palcacocha) is a glacier lake in the Andes mountain range of South America in northwestern Peru located in the Ancash Region, Huaraz Province.
Pallqaqucha is located at 9°23′49″S 77°22′47″W / 9.39694°S 77.37972°W in the Ancash Region in Cordillera Blanca at an elevation of 4,566 m, just below the summits of Pallqarahu (6,274 m) and Pukaranra (6,156 m). The lake is one of several lakes supplying the town Huaraz with water, 23 km to the southwest.
Flood Disaster 1941[edit]
On the early morning of 13 December 1941 a huge chunk of the adjacent glacier fell into Pallqaqucha causing the breaking of the moraine walls that limit the lake downhill. The wave hurtled down the Cojup valley, destroying another lake on its way Q'iraqucha (Jiracocha) and carrying blocks of ice, large rock boulders and liquid mud towards the Santa River valley. Within 15 minutes the mudslide reached Huaraz, with 400 m³ of debris burying parts of the town and killing approximately 6,000 to 7,000 inhabitants.
Disaster Warning 2003[edit]
In April 2003, NASA scientists discovered a fissure in the glacier above Pallqaqucha on Terra satellite images of November 2001. Their warnings reached Peru just two weeks after the staff of the UGRH (Unidad de Glaciologia y Recursos Hidricos) had done some field mapping of Pallqaqucha, where a moraine rupture had caused a minor flood from the lake on 19 March 2003 which the safety constructions from the 1940s had captured.
According to research done by scientists of the Innsbruck university in Austria, the ensuing panic among the inhabitants and economic damage to Huaraz' tourism industry could have been prevented, as from their findings the NASA warnings were a misinterpretation of satellite data.
As the glaciers in this part of the Cordillera Blanca as well as elsewhere have been declining and thinning up because of global climatic changes, there is no actual danger for Huaraz in the foreseeable future.
- ^ Teofilo Laime Ajacopa, Diccionario Bilingüe Iskay simipi yuyayk'ancha, La Paz, 2007 (Quechua-Spanish dictionary): pallqa, P'ALLQA - adj. Bifurcado, ahorquillado. pallqa. - s. Bifurcación. Punto donde se separan dos o más vías o caminos. qucha, qhucha, quchacha. - s. Laguna. Lago pequeño. qucha, qhucha. - s. Lago. Gran masa de agua en una depresión.
- ^ Diccionario Quechua - Español - Quechua, Academía Mayor de la Lengua Quechua, Gobierno Regional Cusco, Cusco 2005: p'alqa - s. Bifurcación, desvío, final en V. de una rama de árbol. EJEM: p'alqa k'aspi, rama de árbol que termina en V. SINÓN: tanka. Pe.Aya: pallja. Pe.Jun: palja. Ec: pallka.


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I see way too many here subscribe to the theory: if malefactors are hard to catch, then don't bother. And people wonder why criminality is rampant in the US. So crime is OK if it is hard to catch the criminals.
If they aren't paying for it they are thieves and criminals.
I thought gas was to expensive... I filled my tank and drove off... by the time someone called me on it I had already gone through my tank. Where are the material goods.....Oh wait...
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When you pirate, you are acquiring something that you legally should have paid for, without paying for it. That's the ordinary meaning of the word "theft".
If you were selling your own creation, say software, music, art, or a book, that you worked hard on, and was your source of income, and someone took its digital form and started distributing it over the Internet, you'd be sitting there with no income. Would you not feel like that person was stealing your livelihood from you? Copyright is your only legal protection from that, if your income depends on selling your creations.
I am really trying to stick to arguing your thought 2 which I think has no debatable foundation. It's fundamentally ridiculous in my opinion, because if applied in its fullest form, would essentially take society back to the bartering stone age type or organization.
LOL no.
It's hard to prove you wrong when this plan was just put in place. Same can be said the other way that there is no proof this will do anything to stop piracy, but chances are it wont. This is wack a mole at best. Pirates and p2p users will change their methods like they have in the past to get around this.
I would like to say one more thing before I hit the MCAT books for the afternoon.Scarcity is the engine of any economy. You can't eliminate the scarcity of a product and expect its IP "rights" to be upheld.It essentially amounts to owning an "idea" or "process" for an arbitrary amount of time.That has never worked throughout history, and never will. Information is free by its very intangible nature.IP has been steadily encroaching on Academic Research for quite some time and its a scary thought. Monsanto has IP rights on soy bean genetics, essentially they have patented "life" of an organism and have actively stopped universities from studying seeds.This is the ridiculous nature of IP.


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John Terry today escaped a lengthy injury lay-off after Chelsea confirmed he had suffered "no significant damage" to his knee ligaments in their Barclays Premier League draw with Liverpool.
The defender underwent scans on today, a day after being carried off during the 1-1 draw following an incident in which Liverpool striker Luis Suarez landed awkwardly on the knee of Terry, whose cruciate ligaments were injured. He later left the ground on crutches.
Chelsea said on their Twitter feed that "MRI Scans reveal no significant damage to John Terry's cruciate ligaments. He will be out weeks rather than months." This was later clarified as 'up to six weeks.'
Terry had scored his 50th Chelsea goal in the match at Stamford Bridge before being forced off, but Suarez later equalized.
The club added in a statement on, http://www.chelseafc.com: "Today's MRI scans on John Terry's right knee thankfully show no significant damage to the cruciate ligaments.
"Chelsea Football Club's medical team will conduct further tests over the next two or three days once the swelling has subsided to determine how long John will be out, but it will be a matter of weeks not months."
Any absence is nevertheless a huge blow for the Blues, with Terry having suffered the injury in his first game back after his domestic four-match racism ban.
The club had struggled badly in defence in his absence, slipping from first to third in the table.
He will almost certainly miss their potentially decisive Champions League Group E game at Juventus, as well as crucial league matches against West Brom and Manchester City.
He could even be a doubt for their Club World Cup trip to Japan early next month.
Petr Cech, who has been Chelsea's de facto captain in the absence of Terry and Frank Lampard, was confident losing the defender for another extended spell would not derail their season.
He said: "We managed to play games without him and we have players who will have a chance to impress.
"I have confidence. Obviously, it's a pity we will lose him again but we have a large squad and quality defenders to deal with that.
"It's important to have people who can step up. This is a chance for the others to shine and we are going to deal with his loss for him."
Terry has demonstrated supreme powers of recovery in the past, coming back from minor surgery on the same knee weeks ahead of schedule last season.
Cech added: "He knows what it takes to come back in good shape and as soon as possible. He always heals well."
Terry went down in agony 10 minutes from half-time yesterday following an accidental collision with Luis Suarez.
He was carried off on a stretcher and left Stamford Bridge on crutches and in a knee brace, sparking fears of a long-term absence.
His departure left Chelsea down to two fit centre-backs in Gary Cahill and Branislav Ivanovic, with David Luiz sidelined by tonsilitis and Ashley Cole nursing a hamstring problem.
Having conceded 12 goals in five games during Terry's ban, they shipped another when he left the field yesterday after powering them in front with his 50th goal for the club.
Manager Roberto Di Matteo bristled at suggestions his side were in the midst of another winter of discontent following their third league game without a win.
But Cech was confident Manchester United's three-point lead over Chelsea at the top of the table - and Manchester City's one-point advantage - was easily recoverable.
"The gap is not a huge problem because it is early in the season but any advantage you give to City and United, they can use it in the future," he said.
"It looks like we will be the three to chase the title. There is a long way to go and you will have periods where you might not win every game.
"If you start looking back at points dropped here and there, it is not going to win you the league.
"If we get around 90 points, we should be fine."
To do that, Chelsea will also need to be more ruthless in front of goal after they wasted several chances to kill off Liverpool.
Fernando Torres was guilty of sending efforts too close to Brad Jones either side of half-time as his scoring jinx against his former club continued.
In stark contrast, his successor as Liverpool's main goal-getter netted with the visitors' first shot on target and would have made it two from two but for a vital Cech interception.
"He is a goalscorer and is always in the right place to tap the ball in and you have to beware of this," Cech said.
"It is a gift. Not everyone has that and it seems when any ball goes into the box, he's in the right place. It is a great skill to have."
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Monday, October 26, 2009
JUPITER, Fla. -- Steve Garvey is 60 years old. For baseball fans of a certain generation, that's hard to believe. We have a mental picture of Garvey as a fixture at first base for the Los Angeles Dodgers, a 10-time all-star, the 1974 National League MVP, a key member of the 1981 World Series champions, a .294 career hitter and the man who holds the National League record for consecutive games played at 1,207 in a row. That's Steve Garvey, eternally young in Dodger Blue.
He didn't look 60 while watching his son, Ryan, play for the Braves Scout Team in the WWBA World Championship the last few days in Florida. He looked like a typical dad, watching his kid play ball, smiling at the successes and wincing at the failures, just like any parent. Ryan's team won the tournament Monday afternoon and Steve took pictures of the team's trophy celebration, just like all the other parents with their cameras.
When Garvey was growing up in Tampa, Fla., they didn't have travel teams and major tournaments with hundreds of pro scouts and college coaches. "I had Little League, I had Pony League and then I had American Legion, as well as high school baseball," he said.
People forget now, but Garvey was a two-sport star when he was young, a rollout quarterback and defensive back in football and an outstanding baseball player. He played both sports at Michigan State for a couple of years before signing with the Dodgers in 1968. One of the highlights of his career came a year later when he had his first at-bat for the Dodgers.
"Even though I struck out, that's the dream come true," he said. The dream, of course, was making the big leagues.
Garvey lives in Palm Desert, Calif., and his son plays for the ABD baseball program, which is heavily into club baseball and travel teams. It's a lot different than when Garvey was growing up. He called club teams and travel ball "an interesting environment" that gives talented boys a chance to develop and be scouted.
"I think Perfect Game does that as well as anybody," he said. "They create opportunities for these boys to be seen and to grow, not only on the field but off the field, too."
Garvey was scouted the old-fashioned way. He attracted attention in Tampa by making all-conference as a sophomore in high school and was selected in the second round of the 1966 draft by Minnesota. The course of baseball history might have changed had he signed with the Twins, but he went to Michigan State instead before signing with Los Angeles a couple of years later.
"With 20,000 coeds (at Michigan State), I was bound to get a date," he joked. "So it was a good choice. I never regretted it."
Garvey played for the Dodgers from 1969 through 1982, then finished his 19-year career with the San Diego Padres from 1983 to 1987. He vividly remembers the final out of the 1981 World Series when the Dodgers beat the Yankees, remembers leaping on teammates Steve Howe and Steve Yeager as the celebration began. Sports Illustrated had a great picture of "The Three Steves" celebrating the championship. Garvey called the World Series victory his ultimate thrill in baseball.
Garvey is a businessman these days with the Garvey Media Group, a media consultant company. He also is a motivational speaker and serves as a consultant with the Dodgers. He still bleeds Dodger Blue and was disappointed to see Los Angeles lose the National League pennant to the Phillies.
Garvey did not pick a winner in the 2009 World Series between the Phils and Yanks, perhaps diplomatically. He noted that Cliff Lee could pitch three times for the Phils, just as C.C. Sabathia could pitch three times for the Yankees if the Series goes seven games.
"I think it's going to be very interesting," he said.
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