Universal Toolkit Research Articles

Linguistic Geometry: The Age of Maturity

This paper describes the current status of research and applications of Linguistic Geometry (LG), a type of game theory scalable to the level of real life defense systems. LG is compared to conventional gaming approaches with respect to their applicability to real world problems. LG generates winning strategies for all sides in a conflict in real time by constructing them out of a limited set of blocks called zones. Several examples of zones are introduced. The paper describes the process of discovery of new zones essential for various types of military operations, which represent different classes of abstract board games. We also included a brief explanation of scalability of the LG applications. This paper describes a universal tool kit, LG-PACKAGE, which allows a user to build his/her own applications of LG. This tool kit includes GDK (Game Development Kit), GIK (Game Integration Kit), GRT (Game Resource Tool), GST (Game Solving Tool), GNS (Game Network Services) and GMI (Game Mobile Interface). In the end we included a description of the most advanced experiments with the LG applications conducted by DARPA and US Army and assessments of these experiments by military experts.

The New Haven School of Jurisprudence: A Universal Toolkit for Understanding and Shaping the Law

The New Haven School of Jurisprudence offers a rich framework of interdisciplinary analysis of societal problems and a heuristic for inventing policy alternatives and recommending solutions that apply across cultures, throughout the planet, and over time. This lecture demonstrates the usefulness of this approach at the dawn of the 21st century, discussing the idea of ‘hegemonic international law’ and addressing discrete issues in the fields of international trade and investment as well as regulation ofthe global commons.

Atlas information systems and geographical names information systems as contributants to spatial data infrastructure

National and international programs dealing with spatial data infrastructures (SDI) made it possible to compile a uniform digital base and a universal toolkit for the integrated description of territories on global to national scales. Atlas information systems (AIS) are considered to be an integrating tool for diverse information resources (modelling, visualisation and analysis), as well as for the elaboration of various scenarios and the possible development of alternatives for such complex systems as those of nature-society-economy. As there is an increased use of digital maps at spatial data infrastructures all aspects related to geographical names are of particular importance in this application of AIS to SDI. It is important to realise a toponymic project, dealing with place-names and their variants depending on the language and time period when a specific place-name was used. The layer of geographical names is considered to be one of the three most important data components of AIS.

Cognitive Analysis and Situation Modelling

Methodology, represented herein, synthesises system and cogmtlve approaches and represents the universal toolkit for structuring and understanding of complicated socio-economical systems behaviour.