Sampling of Erik Thomsen's Presentations and Publications

Sampling of presentations

• Opening keynote speaker at the ACM Conference for Information and Knowledge Management in Virginia. Topic: Research Opportunities for Analytical Systems
• Featured speaker at a series of Business Intelligence seminars hosted by Cognos Corporation in Toronto, Vancouver, Philadelphia. Topic: Enterprise Business Intelligence in the New Economy
• Invited track chair at SIGIR for "integrating structured and unstructured data" in Washington D.C.
• Invited speaker at Intel's IMKD forum on "Integrating Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management"
• Keynote speaker for the first ACM workshop on OLAP
• Invited speaker at the CIA on "Building Multidimensional Information Systems"
• Invited keynote speaker at the Paper Industry Management Association IT conference on "Building Multidimensional Information systems for Manufacturing"
• Invited speaker for IBC conference on data mining for telecommunications Integrating OLAP and data mining for telecommunications analysis
• Invited speaker at Madrid Technical University on building Multidimensional Information systems
• Invited as the DSS expert for Intel's CEO for his keynote address at Oracle Open World
• Invited speaker Inter Op 1999 on decision support standards
• Invited speaker at IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center on the relationship between foundational disciplines and software-based information modeling

Sampling of publications

Sampling of industry publications

• Ensuring future profits
• A three-part feature series on how to assign value to information
• How to build a customer value state model
• Different types of analytical models such as transformation, path, zone and value state
• Integrating data and knowledge
• Architectural requirements for information portals
• The need for deep dimensional symmetry
• The challenge of using multiple dimensions of the same type within a single data set
• Integrating OLAP, data mining and visualization
• Understanding the types and sources of uncertainty and how to work with them
• A functional approach to decision support
• Auditing dimensional formulas
• Smart decision support systems
• How benchmarks uncover differences between products: Oracle, Microsoft, Arbor
• Using data mining OLAP and visualization to classify otherwise anonymous purchasing behaviour
• The principles of data visualization
• How to think clearly in N dimensions

Sampling of foundational publications

• A Functional Basis for Tractarian Number Theory
  presented at the Wittgenstein Symposium on the Foundations of Mathematics Austria 1992
  published in Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics
  Verlag Holder-Pichler-Tempsky Wien 1993
• A Tractarian Approach to Information Modeling
  presented at the Wittgenstein Symposium on the Foundations of Language Austria 1989
  published in Wittgenstein-Towards a Re-evaluation
  Verlag Holder-Pichler-Tempsky Wien 1990