Brief overview of my work for SEABIS/SICSA

1. DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS MODELLING OVERVIEW AND INTRO 24 May 2010 SEABISC/SICSA Paola Di Maio ISTCS University of Strathclyde, DMEM

4. MY WORK AND RESEARCH Lecturer and applied resercher in: Knowledge Based Systems Information Management Keeping an eye out on various things Socio-Technical Systems (also with the SICSA group) Networking! (also with the SCONE) Founder of ISTCS.org (2010) Writing doctoral thesis in Systems Engineering Member of INCOSE (systems engineering council) and part of various other entities Currently delivering a systems engineering and socio technical systems lectures and courses, hire me to teach a class!

8. Natural Ecosystem *the real world (?)

9. Digital Ecosystem (Data and Information about the real world, possibly becoming a world in itslelf?)

10. CO EVOLUTION, patterns of modified behaviours through constant information exchange

11. Knowledge Ecosystems (where organisations often fail to exchange)

16. Controlled Vocabulary Paradox: No single definition of what a CV is * A carefully selected set of terms - words and phrases - such that each concept from the domain of discourse is described using only one term in ... en.wiktionary.org/wiki/controlled_vocabulary * A set of standard subject terms used by a database to describe the subject content of the items cited within the database. Many, if not most, databases use a controlled vocabulary. These controlled vocabularies vary from database to database. ... www.clarion.edu/395/63165/ … . many other definitions of what a controlled vocabulary is …

17. KEY: SHARING DATA/INFORMATION/KNOWLEDGE