There are many side efforts of related cultural behavior. Potential intellectual property is often needlessly destroyed and the results of our investigations are not always integrated into school and university curriculums.

Action:
An electronically mediated inventory of scientific intellectual property is proposed. An advanced linguistically based, concept management system has been prototyped. The first prototype, based on the thematic analysis of text collections, is already fielded in a commercial system addressing non science document collections. The prototype is designed to address the innovation and novelty contained in scientific publications, and to create an index relating concepts from areas of investigation to concepts in areas of application.

The newly organized BCN Group hopes to establish a new mechanism for funding basic science. The proposed system would operate by archiving and managing intellectual property donated to an independent foundation by individual scientists.

The new system might be first fielded in an effort to apply an existing Russian applied semiotics technology to basic research on structural pharmacology, neurobehavior and quantum neurodynamics. To facilitate this effort, we have conducted preliminary work on a long term investigation based on work by K. Pribram, S. Hameroff and R. Penrose. The employed formalism includes the systems formalisms of R. Rosen, V. Finn and D. Pospelov.

Project One; The so called Pribram-Hameroff-Penrose viewpoint:
The experimental basis for understanding biological intelligence is found in the work of Pribram, particularly in his book, Brain and Behavior. Hameroff's speculation on the relationship between quantum fluctuation, neurobehavior and protein conformational state changes is found in Hameroff's book, Ultimate Computing. A firm theoretical foundation for quantum behavioral neurodynamics is found in Penrose's book, Shadows of the Mind, and in the five yearly proceedings of the Appalachian Conferences on Neurobehavior, edited by Pribram and published by LEA.

Project Two; Joint Russian American Project in Applied Semiotics:
The BCN Group is completing preliminary work on the integration of Applied Russian Semiotics with commercial natural language processing and machine reasoning systems. Market areas of immediate interest are : (1) structural pharmacology, (2) neurobehavior and (3) situational analysis. Areas of long term interest are (1) intellectual property mining, (2) electronically mediated discussion, (3) legal reasoning and legal citation inventories and (4) situational control. The BCN Group has industry affiliations that can conduct work in this area.

Project Three; Automated Document Understanding:
We are open to scientific collaboration as related to modeling complex open systems, particularly as applied to automated organization and management of concepts in document collections. A database platform for image and document management with migration paths to the management of document collections by concept has been build by BCN Group industry affiliates.

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RELATED SEMIOTIC TOPICS OF INTEREST

By Dr. Paul S. Prueitt:

• Read Dr. Paul S. Prueitt's: Process Compartment Hypothesis (PCH) Advanced intellectual behaviorism, the adoption of adaptive boundary protocols in human information management.
• Read Dr. Paul S. Prueitt's Ontology Based Document Understanding Knowledge process - classification of the means by which to ontologically interpret and understand ordinary and other kinds of documents. Comparative relationship of Oracle to Knowledge Processing and Natural Language to Process Formalism.

From the ACSA Internet Library:

• Go To the ACSA Joint-Library of Semiotics Research in Articulum II -- a collection of advanced semiotics papers from the Pribram-Hameroff-Penrose (PHP) school of study, published by the Semiotics Laboratory at ACSA (Laboratory Director Scientist Dr. Paul Prueitt).
  
• Go To the International Semiotics Study Library -- papers submitted by BCN and other sources. Papers from the Russian Academy of Science and other international study groups focusing on Semiotics will be published here. (Under Construction)