Publications

Under construction

1997 John Wiley and sons

Note: the 1st edition contains many case studies and software that were left out of the 2nd edition notably in sustainable development

with Dick Chase, George Spofford

1999 John Wiley and Sons

2003 John Wiley and Sons

Academic Publications

An Ontology-Based Approach For Fusion of Sensor Data and Natural Language.Submitted to the Journal of Applied Ontology; currently under review
Triggering a Copernican Shift in Logic through Sequenced Evaluations. Triggering a Copernican Shift in Logic through Sequenced Evaluations -final Paper in support of finalist award at UNILOG 2015 on the future of Logic
Adopting Tractarian Logic to Improve Semantic Technologies Improving Semantic Software with Tractarian Logic_Final submitted to a special issue of the journal of Philosophy of Information on Logic as technology
Ontological event frames for natural language processing and reasoning. An Ontological Frame-based Approach to natural language understanding and reasoning Final Paper in support of keynote speech delivered at Conference on the use of ontologies for sensor analysis University of Buffalo 2016
A Functional Basis for Tractarian Number Theory
presented at the Wittgenstein Symposium on the Foundations of Mathematics
Austria 1992; published in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics
Verlag Holder-Pichler-Tempsky Wien 1993
A Tractarian Approach to Information Modeling
presented at the Wittgenstein Symposium on the Foundations of Language
Austria 1989; published in Wittgenstein-Towards a Re-evaluation
Verlag Holder-Pichler-Tempsky Wien 1990

Sampling of industry publications
From Database Programming and Design or Intelligent Enterprise between 1994 and 2003

Ensuring future profits -through CSR reporting,
Assigning value to information,
Understanding different types of analytical models: transformation, path, zone and value state
How to build a customer value state model
Integrating data and knowledge
Architectural requirements for information portals
The challenge of using multiple dimensions of the same type within a single data set
Integrating OLAP, data mining and visualization
Understanding the types and sources of uncertainty and how to work with them
A functional approach to decision support
Auditing dimensional formulas
Smart decision support systems
Using data mining, OLAP and visualization to classify otherwise anonymous purchasing behaviour
The principles of data visualization
How to think clearly in N-dimensions