The CAISOR Paradigm emphasizes the importance of two interdisciplinary research areas, namely:
In both cases "Artificial Intelligence" is taken in its traditional sense where Knowledge Representation is considered as an important aspect, and where the architecture of cognitive agents is also very important.
Software Technology is understood as the question of the overall structure of software, using subsysems such as operating systems, programming languages and environments, database systems, a variety of servers, and so forth. In the CAISOR Paradigm we observe that this partitioning of the total software in the computer is a very old one, and we question whether it is still appropriate today. Software Technology research shall investigate possible alternatives to this classical partitioning.
Notice that this topic is quite different from research in Software Engineering, which is mostly concerned with methods for implementing large-scale software within the framework of conventional software technology.
In the CAISOR Paradigm we propose that it shall be possible to find another organization of the overall software in the computer, which is better than the traditional one for general purposes, and which is also a better platform for A.I. software. The issue is therefore not merely how to obtain the best software platform for A.I. in the framework of conventional software technology; the proposal is to rethink it.
(Discussion of Information Science to follow).
I have pursued the first one of these ideas since the late 1960's, and the second one since the late 1990's. The acronym CAISOR was introduced in 2005 as an umbrella term for this approach, where CAISOR initialy stood for "Cognitive Agents, Information Science, and Open Resources." It has later been reinterpreted as "Combined Agenda for Information Analysis, Software Systems, Open-Access Publishing and Knowledge Representation." In any case I use the term CAISOR Tradition for the work during these years, and the term CAISOR Paradigm for the approach since I do consider it as a call for a paradigm shift. My current research plans and research activities are presented under the title of the CAISOR Agenda and are described in the CAISOR Agenda Webpage