Rickerism

This page contains a list of white papers that I have written. It also contains lists of published articles, presentations and new articles.

White papers

I wrote the following white papers at various points in my career.

• Human Services: Integrating user interfaces into a service-oriented architecture
• Sensor Fusion
• Theory of Integration
• Introduction to Name-Based Services
• RADXP development methodology for SOA
• Asynchronous Webservices
• Battlespace Webservices
• Migrating to a Service Oriented Architecture
• Introduction to Open Source Software
• Introduction to Webservices
• Open System Interconnection Model
• Pattern of Translation

Published articles

The following is a list of published articles that I have written.

• “Human Services” in 2008 BPM and Workflow Handbook April 2008
• “Service Oriented Device Architecture” IEEE Pervasive Computing September 2006
• Asynchronous Service Access Protocol, version 1.0, OASIS, 2004
• “An Approach to Representing EDI in XML”, XML Journal (vol 1, issue 2), June 2000
• “XML and EDI: Working Together” in The XML Handbook, ed. Charles Goldfarb & Paul Prescod (Prentice-Hall: 2000)
• “XML and EDI - Peaceful Co-existence”, with Drew Munro and Doug Hopeman, TDAN January 2000
• Managing Editor, National Security Studies Quarterly, February 1996 to May 1997
• Contributing author, US Army TRADOC Pamphlet 525-5 Force XXI Operations
• Contributing author, US Army FM 100-6 Information Operations
• “How Self-Directed, High-Performance Teams Saved an Organization”, with Michael E. Bailey, Juran Institute Conference on Management for Total Quality, 1995
• “Marketing Concepts For Army Laboratories”, Army RD&A Magazine September 1994 (now Army AL&T Magazine)

Presentations

I have made the following presentations at conferences.

• Sensor Expo 2007, “Service Oriented Device Architecture”, 13 June 2007, Rosemont, IL
• EclipseCon 2007, “Service Oriented Device Architecture”, 6 March 2007, Santa Clara, CA. Slides (PDF, 9MB)
• Sensor Expo 2005, “Transducer Markup Language”, 07 June 2005, Chicago, IL
• “Commerce Security on the Internet”, American Association of Port Authorities Information Technology Conference, April 1997

News articles

I was interviewed for the following news articles.

• 2006.06.01 Government Security: Opportunity at the Borders
• 2006.04.17 Government Computing News: Guard fields sensor fusion at Super Bowl: System automatically collects data from multiple sources
• 2006.03.01 Government Security: Big Game Day
• 2006.02.02 Computerworld: Super Bowl security to use sensor fusion to fight WMD threats
• 2006.02.02 Macomb Daily: Sterling firm makes new sensor system for National Guard
• 2003.11.11 DevX News: ASAP Off to Late Start
• 2003.11.10 Supply & Demand Chain Executive: Monitoring and Controlling Asynchronous Web Services
• 2003.11.10 eBiz: OASIS Advances Protocol for Asynchronous Web Services
• 2003.10.21 Info World: OASIS works on specs for asynchronous Web services: Standards body creating protocol for long-running transactions
• 2000.06.13 Fastwater: The Role of Schema Registration in the Adoption of XML for E-Business Applications: Biztalk.org Takes the Leading Role

An archive of XMLSolutions press releases can be found on the Opticality website.

Strategic plans

The following are examples of strategic plans that I have written.

• XMLSolutions Development Strategy
• XMLSolutions Product Vision