Critical 1 Consulting, Inc.
P.O. Box 4188
Clarksburg, WV
26302

Ph. 304.657.4258
Fax 866.292.7763
info@critical1.com

James T. Smith, Principal

PUBLICATIONS

James Smith of Critical 1 Consulting has written several papers and made a number of invited presentations in communications and information technologies.  In addition to those papers that are publicly available, he has written extensive (often 100+page) technical documents for employers and contracts in these technology sectors that range in scope from assessments of existing technologies, systems, and business opportunities, to forward-looking strategic analyses (i.e., five-year plans) in such diverse areas as:

• Internet, telephony, cellular integration and convergence, e.g, VoIP, SIP, IMS, WiFi, WiMax.
• Collaboration technology trends, from 3-D CAVE virtual reality environments, to distributed intelligent agent augmented collaboration.
• Net-Centric computing, including the global information grid (GIG), service oriented architectures (SOA), DoDAF
• Machine-to-machine (M2M) studies, from migration of legacy infrastructures and systems, to the development of new sensor network technologies.

A selected subset of publicly available papers and presentations are online below:

• “The Natural Factor Formulation of the Matrix Displacement Method of Structural Analysis,” Master’s Thesis, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, May 1980.
• “Polarization Scattering Matrix Algorithms for Target/Clutter Discrimination and Classification,” 2^nd Workshop on Polarimetric Radar Technology, May 1983. [CLASSIFIED]
• “Target/Clutter Discrimination Using Polarization Scattering Matrix Algorithms,” 29^th Annual Tri-Service Radar Symposium, June 1983. [CLASSIFIED]
• “Decision Aiding for Tactical Aircraft,” SPIE’85, Jun. 1985.
• “Knowledge-Based Systems Technology Assessment,” Contel Internal, Dec. 15, 1989.
• “TDRSS Momentum Unload Planning,” Contel Internal, Feb. 19, 1991.
• “AIN System Design & Information Model Proposal—A Data-Driven Approach,” GTE Internal, Jan. 94.
• “An Approach to Customer-Centered Interfaces,” Third International Conference on Universal Personal Communications (ICUPC-94), pp. 619-623, Sept. 1994.
• “Meeting the Service Creation Challenge Using the ISCP,” GTE Service Creation Workshop-94, Nov. 1994.
• “AIN System Development—A Customer-Centered Approach,” Integrating Telecommunications and Distributed Computing—from Concept to Reality (TINA-95), Feb. 1995. (pdf) (preso)
• “AIN System Development—A Customer-Centered Approach,” IEEE Intelligent Network Workshop (IN-95), May 1995.
• “AIN System Development: The Customer Centered Service Context Profile,” International Communications Conference (ICC-95), June 1995.
• “The Role Directories Will Play in the Coming Digital Economy,” GTE Electronic Commerce Technology Conference, Oct. 7, 1998. (pdf)
• “Emerging Technologies & Megatrends—How Should GTE Respond?” GTE Internal, April 1999. (pdf)
• “Emerging Technologies & Megatrends,” IEEE MetroCon ‘99, April 1999 – invited speaker.
• “The Carrier’s Dilemma,” Instant Messaging—the Future of Computing Services (IM’2000), May, 2000 – invited speaker.
• “Emerging Technologies & Megatrends,” IEEE MetroCon 2000, Sept. 2000 – invited speaker.
• “The 21st Century Packet Network And 21st Century Services,” Spring 2001 Presence & Instant Messaging (PIM’2001), May 2001 – invited speaker. (pdf)
• “Emerging Technologies & Megatrends,” IEEE MetroCon 2001, Sept. 2001 – invited speaker.
• “Emerging Technologies & Megatrends,” IEEE MetroCon 2002, Sept. 2002 – invited speaker. (pdf)
• “Certification of On-Line Learning Neural Networks,” ASC 2003, July 2003. (pdf)
• “Advances in Services,” Chapter 14 in Ken Turner, Dave Marples, & Evan McGill, Eds. Service Provision: Technologies for Next Generation Communications, John-Wiley, 2004. (pdf)
• “Validation of Neural Networks via Taxonomic Evaluation,” Chapter 4 in Brian J. Taylor, Ed. Methods and Procedures for the Verification and Validation of Artificial Neural Networks, Springer, 2005.
• “Neural Network Verification,” Chapter 6  in Brian J. Taylor, Ed. Methods and Procedures for the Verification and Validation of Artificial Neural Networks, Springer, 2005.
• “Emerging Trends That Will Transform M2M,” M2M United, San Antonio, TX, June 26-27, 2006, – invited speaker. (pdf)