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healthcare 3.0
Smart Health: A Flexible, Open Path to Community Health Interoperability Report:
Tenenbaum, J. M. , Schiffman, A. M., Brandman, D., and Blocker, A., February
2005)
Abstract, PDF
Abstract: This paper explores the application of e-commerce technologies to healthcare and concludes that there is indeed a substantial opportunity to leverage both experience and technology from industry. We begin by discussing the major integration challenges encountered in e-business, and how they are being addressed through e-marketplaces and business service networks (BSNs). We then outline the design for a healthcare BSN for the Silicon Valley, and discuss implementation and adoption issues. We conclude by speculating about the implications of this approach for other Regional Health Information Organizations (RHIOs), the National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII), and the future of healthcare.
emerging internet technologies/standards
Zocalo and Prediction Market Design (Presentation:
Hibbert, Chris, Prediction Market Summit, December 2, 2005)
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PDF,
PPT
Abstract: This presentation recaps the status of the Zocalo project, presents a proposal that existing prediction markets would benefit from increasing their search engine visibility and providing price feeds, and shows how most of the existing prediction markets are missing an easy chance to offer more liquidity in their multi-outcome claims. The Zocalo Prediction Market toolkit is available as open source at SourceForge, and is being used in laboratory experiments at George Mason University. Those experiment are characterizing the effects of manipulators on Prediction Markets. We show a web-based replay of one session of those experiments. There are quite a few topics covered by the existing publicly visible prediction markets that are of widespread interest. The companies operating those markets could increase their visibility substantially by making their markets more searchable. If the descriptions of the claims were posted with stable web addresses, people insterested in the topics could refer to them more easily, and the search engines would be more likely to notice them when crawling the web, and more able to show them as results when they are relevant to a query. When prediction markets are based on claims with multiple exclusive outcomes, most of the current markets are not presenting traders with the best available prices. These markets maintain a separate double auction for each outcome, segmenting the available order volume into non-interacting submarkets. When outcomes are exclusive, bids on each outcome are bets against each of the others, and could add to the liquidity of all positions. Since most traders are price takers, this results in fewer trades taking place. Arbitrageurs are not a substitute for the market in offering these trading opportunities, since riskless arbitrage can't take advantage of interest that never appears in the order book.
AI Meets Web 2.0: Building The Web of Tomorrow Today (Technical
Report: Tenenbaum, J. M., December 2005)
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Abstract: Imagine an Internet-scale Knowledge System where people and intelligent agents can collaborate on solving complex problems in business, engineering, science, medicine, and other endeavors. Its resources include semantically tagged Web sites, wikis, and blogs, as well as social networks, vertical search engines and a vast array of Web services from business processes to AI planners and domain models. Research prototypes of decentralized knowledge systems have been demonstrated for years, but now, thanks to the Web and Moore's Law, they appear ready for prime time. Architectural concepts for incrementally growing an Internet-scale knowledge system are introduced, with descriptions of early commercial deployments in manufacturing and healthcare.
KudoRank: A Market Model for Mail Management (Technical Report: Khare, R., November 2005)
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Abstract: This paper describes a novel approach to searching personal information archives: a market mechanism for 'pricing' the value of information from different authors. Traditional text indexing assumes all documents in a collection are equally important, so the ranking of search results is based on the frequency of term occurrence, age, or other endogenous properties of the result set itself. We investigated whether higher-quality results can be obtained by ranking documents based on analysis of the social network between correspondents. This approach appears particularly promising for personal information archives, where much of the data to be retrieved is private and little contextual metadata exists.
QuestionMarket: A Marketplace Mechanism for Tapping into the Value
of Human Cognition (Technical
Report: Hill, B., October 2005)
Abstract,
PDF,
Wiki
Abstract: A QuestionMarket enables the exchange of units of human-generated information. While many other distributed 'grid' systems create a marketplace for trading computational resources like processing, bandwidth, and storage, QuestionMarket deals in the acquisition and exchange of small units of human cognition. By focusing on puzzles that are difficult to solve with a computer but relatively easy for humans, so called AI-complete problems are resistant to Moore's Law while encompassing a wide range of valuable human-only work, such as translation, tagging, and filtering.
AI Meets Web 2.0: Building The Web of Tomorrow Today (Presentation:
Tenenbaum, J. M., IAAI-05, July 10 – 13, 2005)
Abstract,
PDF,
Online
Presentation, Wiki
Abstract: Imagine an Internet-scale Knowledge System where people and intelligent agents can collaborate on solving complex problems in business, engineering, science, medicine, and other endeavors. Its resources include semantically tagged Web sites, wikis, and blogs, as well as social networks, vertical search engines and a vast array of Web services from business processes to AI planners and domain models. Research prototypes of decentralized knowledge systems have been demonstrated for years, but now, thanks to the Web and Moore's Law, they appear ready for prime time. Architectural concepts for incrementally growing an Internet-scale knowledge system are introduced, with descriptions of early commercial deployments in manufacturing and healthcare.
Decentralizing Sponsored Web Advertising (Technical Report:
Khare, R. and Sittler, B., April 2005)
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Abstract: Today, sponsored search auctions are purely centralized. A single, trusted agency controls who can advertise; acceptable advertising messages; the mapping of ads to pages; placement within pages; and, of course, the entire bidding process. We are interested in learning more about the challenges of building a peer-to-peer alternative; and to discuss our experiments with an alternative mechanism, Ross Mayfield's "cost-per-influence."
Business Services Networks: Delivering the Promises of B2B (Article
and Presentation: Tenenbaum, J. M., and Khare, R., IEEE
Workshop on Business Services Network, March 29, 2005, pp. 52 – 60)
Abstract,
Article,
Presentation
Abstract: The fundamental challenge of e-commerce is enabling companies to do business with one another across a network, despite different business processes and computer systems. Traditionally, these problems were overcome through custom point-to-point integration or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) networks. These expensive, time-consuming approaches make economic sense only when companies do a lot of business together. The promise of the Internet, by contrast, is an open e-business platform where companies can do business spontaneously with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Business Services Networks fulfill that vision. This vision paper also presents CommerceNet's role in catalyzing industrial adoption.
Zocalo: An Open-Source Platform for Deploying Prediction Markets (Technical
Report: Hibbert, C., February 2005)
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PDF
Abstract: We propose developing an open-source toolkit for creating markets, called Zocalo, in order to catalyze broader adoption of markets in academia, industry, and throughout society. We are primarily interested in prediction markets, which allow traders to buy and sell securities that pay out based on the outcome of some future event, but Zocalo would also be useful for creating markets in other goods.
Business Services Networks: Delivering the Promises of B2B (Technical
Report: Tenenbaum, J. M. and Khare, R., January 2005)
Abstract,
PDF
Abstract: The fundamental challenge of e-commerce is enabling companies to do business with one another across a network, despite different business processes and computer systems. Traditionally, these problems were overcome through custom point-to-point integration or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) networks. These expensive, time-consuming approaches make economic sense only when companies do a lot of business together. The promise of the Internet, by contrast, is an open e-business platform where companies can do business spontaneously with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Business Services Networks fulfill that vision. This vision paper also presents CommerceNet's role in catalyzing industrial adoption.
Leveraging Product Codes for Internet Commerce (Technical
Report: Stapleton-Gray, R., November 2004)
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Abstract: A Registry complementary to the Object Naming Service (ONS) planned for RFID - but specifically mapping the previous generation of product codes - would jump-start the use of product codes as unique identifiers in Internet commerce. In the long run, it would be subsumed by the ONS itself, but would play a valuable role now as a means to rapidly facilitate conversion of product codes to useful handles on the Internet. The white paper outlines the challenge of creating such a Registry and associated open-source product information-publishing tools, with estimates of the effort required.
Web Services After Five Years (Panel Discussion) (Technical
Report: Khare, R., November 2004)
Abstract,
PDF
Abstract: Imagine an Internet-scale Knowledge System where people and intelligent agents can collaborate on solving complex problems in business, engineering, science, medicine, and other endeavors. Its resources include semantically tagged Web sites, wikis, and blogs, as well as social networks, vertical search engines and a vast array of Web services from business processes to AI planners and domain models. Research prototypes of decentralized knowledge systems have been demonstrated for years, but now, thanks to the Web and Moore's Law, they appear ready for prime time. Architectural concepts for incrementally growing an Internet-scale knowledge system are introduced, with descriptions of early commercial deployments in manufacturing and healthcare.
Nutch: A Flexible and Scalable Open-Source Web Search Engine (Technical
Report: Khare, R., Cutting, D., Sitaker, K., and Rifkin, A., November 2004)
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Wiki
Abstract: Nutch is an open-source Web search engine that can be used at global, local, and even personal scale. Its initial design goal was to enable a transparent alternative for global Web search in the public interest. It has also been used for intranets; by local communities with richer data models, such as the Creative Commons metadata-enabled search for licensed content; on a personal scale to index a user's files, email, and web-surfing history. We also report on several other research projects built on Nutch and how Nutch's architecture enables it to be more flexible and scalable than other comparable systems today.
Event-Driven Information: A Core Component of the Now Economy (Technical
Report: Stapleton-Gray, R., November 2004)
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PDF
Abstract: The potential for applications that make use of networked, time-driven information is huge. Today's portals have no concept of event personalization or collaboration. Today's applications have only the most basic concept of integrating with or subscribing to time-driven data. And there are no providers of horizontal event-based services. The hosted calendar model deserves exploration and development it can make communities stronger and more vibrant, and organizations better informed. Software and the Internet has freed online music from its proprietary data and application jails, why not do the same with events? The traditional calendar interface deserves a overhaul.
Extending the Representational State Transfer (REST) Architectural
Style for Decentralized Systems (Article: Khare, R. and Taylor,
R. N., May 23 – 28, 2004)
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Abstract: Because it takes time and trust to establish agreement, traditional consensus-based architectural styles cannot safely accommodate resources that change faster than it takes to transmit notification of that change, nor resources that must be shared across independent agencies. The alternative is decentralization: permitting independent agencies to make their own decisions. Our definition contrasts with that of distribution, in which several agents share control of a single decision. Ultimately, the physical limits of network latency and the social limits of independent agency call for solutions that can accommodate multiple values for the same variable. Our approach to this challenge is architectural: proposing constraints on the configuration of com-ponents and connectors to induce particular desired properties of the whole application. Specifically, we present, implement, and evaluate variations of the World Wide Web's Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style that support distributed and decentralized systems.
Agoric Architectural Styles for Decentralized Space Exploration (Technical
Report: Khare, R., and Taylor, R. N., August 2004)
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Abstract: This position paper discusses an architectural approach to managing decentralized space exploration missions. Developing control applications in this domain is complicated by more than just the challenging computing and communication constraints of space-based mission elements; future exploration missions will depend on ad-hoc cooperation between independent space agencies' elements. Currently, the frontier of interoperability is providing communication relays, as shown in by recent Mars missions, where NASA rovers relayed data via ESA satellites.
Business Service Networks (Presentation: Tenenbaum, J.
M. IEEE Conference on Electronic Commerce 2004 and IEEE International Conference
on Web Services 2004, July 6 – 9, 2004)
Abstract,
PDF
Abstract: The fundamental challenge of e-commerce is enabling companies to do business with one another across a network, despite different business processes and computer systems. Traditionally, these problems were overcome through custom point-to-point integration or Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) networks. These expensive, time-consuming approaches make economic sense only when companies do a lot of business together. The promise of the Internet, by contrast, is an open e-business platform where companies can do business spontaneously with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Business Services Networks fulfill that vision. This vision paper also presents CommerceNet's role in catalyzing industrial adoption.
An Introduction to zLab (Technical Report: Khare, R., July
2004)
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Abstract: zLab is the first initiative from CommerceNet Labs, our new research initiative. This draft speech reviews the history and successes of the first decade of CommerceNet to put this strategy into perspective. zLab is an investment in our updated mission: Inspiring ideas to advance commerce in the Now Economy. In particular, we are investigating how to build software that can work the way society works, without any absolute center of power. This could lead to an entirely new generation of tools for decentralized commerce, in which individuals and firms can connect dynamically and in real-time. This is illustrated through experimental concepts such as zBay, zSearch, and zClassifieds.
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