[okmds-org] Next Event - SOFI Panel 2007.12.13 [was - Re: 6th Organizing

["Peter Yim" <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx>]

I promised the team, in yesterday's discussion on lining up our next event (ref. http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_11_06#nid15Q4
 ) with a panel on the SOFI Project. Here's what I will be putting together:

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Date: Thu 2007.12.13

Title: "Making Better Strategic Decisions, by Asking If It Is Going To Get Better or Worse - the SOFI Method and the System to Implement it"

Abstract:

Ask If It Is Going To Get Better or Worse, and then just go with the decision that would get things better for us! 
This almost seems intuitively obvious ... until we delve seriously into the issue, and start wondering:

 *  what are the pertinent factors that would affect whether it is going to get better or worse?
 *  are these factors independent of one another?
 *  do we have data? enough? ... how much is enough anyway? 
 *  how far back should we look? how far out should we project? 
 *  who should we ask? ... the experts? or ask as many people as we can?
 *  how can we even reach these people?
 *  how can we handle these massive amount of data? ... numeric, linguistic, structured, unstructured, ...
 *  are the inputs or answers binary? deterministic or probabilistic?
    ... the list of questions go on and on. 

Invited to join us will be panel made of designers, researchers and implementers of the "State of the Future Index (SOFI)" methodology and system from the WFUNA Millennium Project, who has been working with this since year 2000. 

The team is on the R&D to cast the SOFI work into a collaborative open knowledge system that brings to bear state-of-the-art approaches in knowledge management, quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis, service oriented architecture, web 
2.0, Delphi,  semantics and ontological engineering. They are tapping into virtual communities to come up with the collective intelligence to provide strategic decision support. 

Come find out what they have done and learned so far, and discuss how some of that learning can be applied elsewhere.

Reference: Futures Research Methodology version 2.0: Chapter 22 - SOFI Methodology
 and Chapter 23 - SOFI System 
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Comments, suggestions, ...?

Regards.  =ppy
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On Nov 6, 2007 12:04 PM, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

Great call today. Thanks to those who were able to attend.

Please review proceedings at:
http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_11_06

Thanks & regards.  =ppy
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On 11/5/07, Peter Yim <peter.yim@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> *Reminder*
>
> Here are the details for the 6th conference call of the organizing
> committee for the joint NASA-Ontolog "Ontology in Knowledge Management
> and Decision Support (OKMDS)" initiative.
>
> * Date: Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007
> * Start Time: 10:00am PST / 1:00pm EST / 18:00 UTC
>  o ref: World Clock -
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=11&day=6&year=2007&hour=10&min=00&sec=0&p1=224
> * Expected Call Duration: 1.0 Hour
> * Dial-in Number:
>  o from US: +1-605-475-8590 (South Dakota, USA)
>  + Conference ID: "5823120#"
>  o Direct call from from Skype: +990008275823120
>
> * RSVP (regrets only ... we already know that Jeanne, and I believe
> Andy too, will be on the road tomorrow.)
>
> Session page will be on the wiki at:
> http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_11_06
>
> Please add your agenda ideas via this thread (or directly to the wiki
> at: http://ontolog.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OKMDS/OrganizingCommitteeMeeting_2007_11_06#nid15OS
> ). In particular, we are still trying to lock in 2~3 session and other
> program content that we will announce during the 11/8 Launch Event.
>
> Urgent:  need Jeanne and Andy to provide more details on their talks
> they will be giving at the upcoming Nov-8 OKMDS mini-series launch
> event. ... talk title(s), abstract(s),
> speaker bio, pictures, ...etc. ... The good news is that Andy will be
> able to join us at tomorrow's call; I believe Jeanne is still on the
> road.
>
> *RSVP* ... S'il Vous Plaît!
>
> Thanks & regards.  =ppy
> --
>

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