This page lists various articles and whitepapers I've published along with a brief description of the content.
Whitepapers
Information Flow in the Federal Enterprise: Governing Federations, Sharing Information and Ensuring Privacy In this paper, I describe three qualitative governance assessment criteria called the Natural Laws of Federation. Given these laws, I describe an approach to sharing information among members of a federation based on Barwise and Seligman's Information Flow and Goguen's theory of Institutions. Finally, I propose a policy interaction model as a next generation social contract and briefly describe the Citizen Privacy Service which ensures privacy, a timely public policy issue, in a federation based on the U.S. Privacy Act of 1974.
Open Source Acquisition: A Next Generation Approach to Government Technology Adoption This whitepaper is writen in response to the DoD's Open Technology Development Roadmap Plan. The paper provides my perspective on various aspects of open soruce software including Federal policy on open source software, acquisitions, government adoption, public sector economics and legal aspects.
Perspectives on a Unifying Framework for the Federal Enterprise This whitepaper informally presents term/concept relations, information flow, and ontology partitioning.
Articles
(Licensed to Fawcette Publications)
Centers: The Architecture of Services and the Phenomenon of Life This is another short piece of thought leadership based on Christoper Alexander's work after patterns and pattern language.
Line of Sight This piece demonstrates a UML extended profile based on the Federal Enterprise Architecture Service Component Reference Model.
Uncoupling Struts This piece explains how to loosley couple your persistence tier from the Struts application framework.
A Service Oriented Architecture for the Federal Enterprise This piece models Simplified Delivery of Services to Citizens as a Service Oriented Architecture.
Legislated Enterprise Architecture This is a short piece describing the Federal Enterprise Architecture (FEA) published in Enterprise Architect magazine. You'll have to set up an account to view the article.
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