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  | Welcome to the Sirius-Beta site, a playground of Ted Goranson. There are several large sections here. They all concern elements of a study toward new formal methods of context-based abstraction of human-centric system behavior. But most are just fun. The five sections are outlined below, with section navigation at the top of the page. ALF is a project to support semantically-informed self-organization of opportunistic, frangible virtual enterprises. It employs some mainstream technologies (process modeling, web choreography), some unusual technologies (functional agents, semantic relection) and applies some mathematical foundations in unusual ways (group, category and situation theories). The project is in suspense, but the area contains substantial work toward the vision. ALICE is the sibling of ALF. It focuses on revolutionary paradigms for user interfaces via geometric cosmologies, metaphoric concept indexing and spatial interaction. Most of the action at present is in filling in the two sections below. Metaphoric concept indexing. Specifically, this section hosts an open, evolving study of how ordinary people deal with extraordinary complexity of abstraction in film. Herein are databases and an on-line book on the new term "folding:" how metarepresentation seems to be emerging. Geometric cosmologies. This is an enormously popular study featuring The Beatles and Alice in Wonderland. Several versions of an online book A random collection of studies and observations, including the famed Stained Glass, Beatles Archives and EarthWorks sites. Personal stuff as well. | ||||||||||||
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