This is the deck from my talk at the ENDORSE conference. You the recording of the session along with more information in this blog post https://www.strategicstructures.com/?p=2193
Semantics for Technical Interoperability and Safer Transport: The Case Of Th...Ivo Velitchkov
This is the deck from my talk at SEMANTiCS 2021 in Amsterdam, within the Workshop on Rethinking Asset Information Management.
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The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) identifies four levels of interoperability, two of which are semantic and technical interoperability. Technical interoperability in the context of EIF is that between digital services. In the transport domain, however, the main need is for technical interoperability between physical assets. And it is crucial for safety. The role of semantic interoperability is also somewhat different. It doesn't enter as an upper layer but as enabler.
The first Linked Data pilot at the EU Agency for Railways addressed a problem of interoperability between physical assets – track and trains – by increasing the interoperability of their datasets. And while many Linked Data projects focus on the backend and publication, this one delivered a full-stack solution in a very short time that convinced the board to adopt Linked Data as the default paradigm for data management.
Management Cybernetics has its models and language. They are extremely valuable when discussing with peers and for the advancement of the discipline. Yet, they limit the accessibility of the wider audience to these ideas. What’s more, they limit the spread of the mindset and skills needed for systemic change.
In this session, at Mataphorum 2019, I shared how I'm teaching my version of management cybernetics. It works without models and without the language of channels, transducers, amplifiers, and attenuators. Without even using the word “system”. Instead, this a way of helping leaders to work on their skills for diagnosis and design, by building observational and thinking habits, related to three organisational balances: autonomy-cohesion, diversity-stability, and exploration-exploitation
What can Social Systems Theory bring to the VSM?Ivo Velitchkov
The slides supporting my talk at the Metaphorum conference in Düsseldorf. You can also watch them with the animations here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YNFAXiqbQc .
These are the slides I used for my talk at the Enterprise Architecture Summer School 2018 in Copenhagen. You can see them with animations here: https://youtu.be/oQbSwr_N1H8.
The talk is an overview of the way I practice Enterprise Architecture. It is based on a combination of two ostensibly incompatible paradigms.
When organisation and projects are seriously regarded as social systems, the most striking realisation is that they are created by - and full of - paradoxes. Understanding and working with these paradoxes will help project managers deal with the increasing complexity when methodologies and good practices reach their limits of applicability and KPIs are not helpful anymore in steering projects. It will not be an easy task as the Western culture has been trying for centuries to avoid paradoxes. But the efforts will pay off. The new skills will bring unconventional and useful perspective on project communications and decisions. It will help realise and work with the unavoidable divergence between project success and client satisfaction. And it will bring new understanding of the function and dynamics of trust in projects.
These are the slides from my talk at the PMI Congress 2017 in Affligem, Belgium. It is an invitation to look at projects through social systems glasses, a complementary set to that of Essential Balances - http://www.essentialbalances.com/ .
You can watch the same slides with animations on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6QwIAqKl8mA .
Essential Balances In Organisations (workshop)Ivo Velitchkov
(Note: you can play the actual Prezi and get more information at http://www.strategicstructures.com/?page_id=1101)
In any organisation, regardless of sector, size, complexity or structure, certain balances are essential for its performance and adaptability. These include balancing autonomy and cohesion, maintaining diversity and stability, and navigating between exploration and exploitation. They can be seen at different levels – network of organisations, within organisation, department, team or individual – and they are equally important at each level.
For an organisation to be healthy, management needs to be able to sense when one or more of these falls out of balance – and act accordingly. This ability can help to quickly diagnose complex situations and to make better strategic and operational decisions. It is even more valuable to be able to grow the organisation in a way that its harmony and adaptability come naturally. That will not happen by adopting best practices, but by cultivating different thinking habits.
This workshop demonstrates what it means to have that and helps in making the first steps.
(Note: you can play the actual prezi at http://www.strategicstructures.com/?p=1008)
These are my slides from the conference "Managing Complexity with the Viable Systems Model: Theory, Applications and Innovative Research", 11 - 13 November 2015, Hull UK.
Here is the full program http://www2.hull.ac.uk/hubs/news-events/events/css-metaphorum.aspx. I'll add the link to the rest of the presentations when available.
In any organisation, regardless of its sector, size, complexity or type of organisational structure, there are certain balances which are essential for the organisational health and performance. These include balancing autonomy and cohesion, maintaining diversity and stability and finding the right time and way of shifting between exploration and exploitation mode. Getting a better understanding of these balances can help managers keep their organisations viable by quickly diagnosing complex situations and making better strategic and operational decisions.
Semantics for Technical Interoperability and Safer Transport: The Case Of Th...Ivo Velitchkov
This is the deck from my talk at SEMANTiCS 2021 in Amsterdam, within the Workshop on Rethinking Asset Information Management.
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The European Interoperability Framework (EIF) identifies four levels of interoperability, two of which are semantic and technical interoperability. Technical interoperability in the context of EIF is that between digital services. In the transport domain, however, the main need is for technical interoperability between physical assets. And it is crucial for safety. The role of semantic interoperability is also somewhat different. It doesn't enter as an upper layer but as enabler.
The first Linked Data pilot at the EU Agency for Railways addressed a problem of interoperability between physical assets – track and trains – by increasing the interoperability of their datasets. And while many Linked Data projects focus on the backend and publication, this one delivered a full-stack solution in a very short time that convinced the board to adopt Linked Data as the default paradigm for data management.
Management Cybernetics has its models and language. They are extremely valuable when discussing with peers and for the advancement of the discipline. Yet, they limit the accessibility of the wider audience to these ideas. What’s more, they limit the spread of the mindset and skills needed for systemic change.
In this session, at Mataphorum 2019, I shared how I'm teaching my version of management cybernetics. It works without models and without the language of channels, transducers, amplifiers, and attenuators. Without even using the word “system”. Instead, this a way of helping leaders to work on their skills for diagnosis and design, by building observational and thinking habits, related to three organisational balances: autonomy-cohesion, diversity-stability, and exploration-exploitation
What can Social Systems Theory bring to the VSM?Ivo Velitchkov
The slides supporting my talk at the Metaphorum conference in Düsseldorf. You can also watch them with the animations here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YNFAXiqbQc .
These are the slides I used for my talk at the Enterprise Architecture Summer School 2018 in Copenhagen. You can see them with animations here: https://youtu.be/oQbSwr_N1H8.
The talk is an overview of the way I practice Enterprise Architecture. It is based on a combination of two ostensibly incompatible paradigms.
When organisation and projects are seriously regarded as social systems, the most striking realisation is that they are created by - and full of - paradoxes. Understanding and working with these paradoxes will help project managers deal with the increasing complexity when methodologies and good practices reach their limits of applicability and KPIs are not helpful anymore in steering projects. It will not be an easy task as the Western culture has been trying for centuries to avoid paradoxes. But the efforts will pay off. The new skills will bring unconventional and useful perspective on project communications and decisions. It will help realise and work with the unavoidable divergence between project success and client satisfaction. And it will bring new understanding of the function and dynamics of trust in projects.
These are the slides from my talk at the PMI Congress 2017 in Affligem, Belgium. It is an invitation to look at projects through social systems glasses, a complementary set to that of Essential Balances - http://www.essentialbalances.com/ .
You can watch the same slides with animations on YouTube: https://youtu.be/6QwIAqKl8mA .
Essential Balances In Organisations (workshop)Ivo Velitchkov
(Note: you can play the actual Prezi and get more information at http://www.strategicstructures.com/?page_id=1101)
In any organisation, regardless of sector, size, complexity or structure, certain balances are essential for its performance and adaptability. These include balancing autonomy and cohesion, maintaining diversity and stability, and navigating between exploration and exploitation. They can be seen at different levels – network of organisations, within organisation, department, team or individual – and they are equally important at each level.
For an organisation to be healthy, management needs to be able to sense when one or more of these falls out of balance – and act accordingly. This ability can help to quickly diagnose complex situations and to make better strategic and operational decisions. It is even more valuable to be able to grow the organisation in a way that its harmony and adaptability come naturally. That will not happen by adopting best practices, but by cultivating different thinking habits.
This workshop demonstrates what it means to have that and helps in making the first steps.
(Note: you can play the actual prezi at http://www.strategicstructures.com/?p=1008)
These are my slides from the conference "Managing Complexity with the Viable Systems Model: Theory, Applications and Innovative Research", 11 - 13 November 2015, Hull UK.
Here is the full program http://www2.hull.ac.uk/hubs/news-events/events/css-metaphorum.aspx. I'll add the link to the rest of the presentations when available.
In any organisation, regardless of its sector, size, complexity or type of organisational structure, there are certain balances which are essential for the organisational health and performance. These include balancing autonomy and cohesion, maintaining diversity and stability and finding the right time and way of shifting between exploration and exploitation mode. Getting a better understanding of these balances can help managers keep their organisations viable by quickly diagnosing complex situations and making better strategic and operational decisions.
Language and Meta-language for Enterprise ArchitectureIvo Velitchkov
To describe the architectures of enterprises, we need a language that can help learn more from what we know already and does not ignore what we currently don't know. But that's not enough. We also need language to talk about autonomy and adaptivity.
(Some clarification available here http://www.strategicstructures.com/?p=806)
New take on Requisite Inefficiency, extending and clarifying what happens when time, luck and uncertainty are taken into account. A bit more clear on redundancy, degeneracy and exaptation. There are also new examples, including startups and kids play, and a new rendition of VSM is used for some of the explanations.
(Version 2 is replaced by version 3; version 1 is kept)
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
Using Enterprise Architecture to harmonise national legislationIvo Velitchkov
The document discusses a project that used enterprise architecture to harmonize national legislation according to the EU Services Directive, with the goal of modernizing and simplifying regulatory frameworks. It outlines the project approach, which involved modeling public services, administrative procedures, and related legal requirements using viewpoints. The project helped identify needed interactions between government authorities and opportunities to improve processes, simplify compliance, and enable e-government capabilities.
That's part of the section about "Control" from a "Changing the way we think about quality" presentation I did earlier this year.
It's yet another attempt to explain the law of requisite variety. I hope it has some value outside the context of the presentation of which it was part.
This document discusses reasoning with taskless BPMN models. It argues that removing tasks from BPMN allows models to absorb more variety and complexity while dealing with uncertainty. Semantic technologies can enable open and natural descriptions as well as rule-based execution through inference. The goal is to develop leaner and more flexible BPMN models and an open enterprise architecture.
Analysis insight about a Flyball dog competition team's performanceroli9797
Insight of my analysis about a Flyball dog competition team's last year performance. Find more: https://github.com/rolandnagy-ds/flyball_race_analysis/tree/main
Global Situational Awareness of A.I. and where its headedvikram sood
You can see the future first in San Francisco.
Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be un-leashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the wilful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Let me tell you what we see.
Learn SQL from basic queries to Advance queriesmanishkhaire30
Dive into the world of data analysis with our comprehensive guide on mastering SQL! This presentation offers a practical approach to learning SQL, focusing on real-world applications and hands-on practice. Whether you're a beginner or looking to sharpen your skills, this guide provides the tools you need to extract, analyze, and interpret data effectively.
Key Highlights:
Foundations of SQL: Understand the basics of SQL, including data retrieval, filtering, and aggregation.
Advanced Queries: Learn to craft complex queries to uncover deep insights from your data.
Data Trends and Patterns: Discover how to identify and interpret trends and patterns in your datasets.
Practical Examples: Follow step-by-step examples to apply SQL techniques in real-world scenarios.
Actionable Insights: Gain the skills to derive actionable insights that drive informed decision-making.
Join us on this journey to enhance your data analysis capabilities and unlock the full potential of SQL. Perfect for data enthusiasts, analysts, and anyone eager to harness the power of data!
#DataAnalysis #SQL #LearningSQL #DataInsights #DataScience #Analytics
Unleashing the Power of Data_ Choosing a Trusted Analytics Platform.pdfEnterprise Wired
In this guide, we'll explore the key considerations and features to look for when choosing a Trusted analytics platform that meets your organization's needs and delivers actionable intelligence you can trust.
Language and Meta-language for Enterprise ArchitectureIvo Velitchkov
To describe the architectures of enterprises, we need a language that can help learn more from what we know already and does not ignore what we currently don't know. But that's not enough. We also need language to talk about autonomy and adaptivity.
(Some clarification available here http://www.strategicstructures.com/?p=806)
New take on Requisite Inefficiency, extending and clarifying what happens when time, luck and uncertainty are taken into account. A bit more clear on redundancy, degeneracy and exaptation. There are also new examples, including startups and kids play, and a new rendition of VSM is used for some of the explanations.
(Version 2 is replaced by version 3; version 1 is kept)
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
Using Enterprise Architecture to harmonise national legislationIvo Velitchkov
The document discusses a project that used enterprise architecture to harmonize national legislation according to the EU Services Directive, with the goal of modernizing and simplifying regulatory frameworks. It outlines the project approach, which involved modeling public services, administrative procedures, and related legal requirements using viewpoints. The project helped identify needed interactions between government authorities and opportunities to improve processes, simplify compliance, and enable e-government capabilities.
That's part of the section about "Control" from a "Changing the way we think about quality" presentation I did earlier this year.
It's yet another attempt to explain the law of requisite variety. I hope it has some value outside the context of the presentation of which it was part.
This document discusses reasoning with taskless BPMN models. It argues that removing tasks from BPMN allows models to absorb more variety and complexity while dealing with uncertainty. Semantic technologies can enable open and natural descriptions as well as rule-based execution through inference. The goal is to develop leaner and more flexible BPMN models and an open enterprise architecture.
Analysis insight about a Flyball dog competition team's performanceroli9797
Insight of my analysis about a Flyball dog competition team's last year performance. Find more: https://github.com/rolandnagy-ds/flyball_race_analysis/tree/main
Global Situational Awareness of A.I. and where its headedvikram sood
You can see the future first in San Francisco.
Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be un-leashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the wilful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Let me tell you what we see.
Learn SQL from basic queries to Advance queriesmanishkhaire30
Dive into the world of data analysis with our comprehensive guide on mastering SQL! This presentation offers a practical approach to learning SQL, focusing on real-world applications and hands-on practice. Whether you're a beginner or looking to sharpen your skills, this guide provides the tools you need to extract, analyze, and interpret data effectively.
Key Highlights:
Foundations of SQL: Understand the basics of SQL, including data retrieval, filtering, and aggregation.
Advanced Queries: Learn to craft complex queries to uncover deep insights from your data.
Data Trends and Patterns: Discover how to identify and interpret trends and patterns in your datasets.
Practical Examples: Follow step-by-step examples to apply SQL techniques in real-world scenarios.
Actionable Insights: Gain the skills to derive actionable insights that drive informed decision-making.
Join us on this journey to enhance your data analysis capabilities and unlock the full potential of SQL. Perfect for data enthusiasts, analysts, and anyone eager to harness the power of data!
#DataAnalysis #SQL #LearningSQL #DataInsights #DataScience #Analytics
Unleashing the Power of Data_ Choosing a Trusted Analytics Platform.pdfEnterprise Wired
In this guide, we'll explore the key considerations and features to look for when choosing a Trusted analytics platform that meets your organization's needs and delivers actionable intelligence you can trust.
06-04-2024 - NYC Tech Week - Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
https://www.meetup.com/unstructured-data-meetup-new-york/
This meetup is for people working in unstructured data. Speakers will come present about related topics such as vector databases, LLMs, and managing data at scale. The intended audience of this group includes roles like machine learning engineers, data scientists, data engineers, software engineers, and PMs.This meetup was formerly Milvus Meetup, and is sponsored by Zilliz maintainers of Milvus.
The Building Blocks of QuestDB, a Time Series Databasejavier ramirez
Talk Delivered at Valencia Codes Meetup 2024-06.
Traditionally, databases have treated timestamps just as another data type. However, when performing real-time analytics, timestamps should be first class citizens and we need rich time semantics to get the most out of our data. We also need to deal with ever growing datasets while keeping performant, which is as fun as it sounds.
It is no wonder time-series databases are now more popular than ever before. Join me in this session to learn about the internal architecture and building blocks of QuestDB, an open source time-series database designed for speed. We will also review a history of some of the changes we have gone over the past two years to deal with late and unordered data, non-blocking writes, read-replicas, or faster batch ingestion.