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Linas Vepstas
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linasvepstas@gmail.com
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28 February 2024
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To: ACM Transactions on Database Systems
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Dear Editors:
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Please consider the attached manuscript for publication in ACM TODS.
I beleive it meets your publication standards.
Below are statements responding to your author guidelines.
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Thank you,
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Authors:
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Sole author: Linas Vepstas.
E-mail: linasvepstas@gmail.com.
Affiliation: OpenCog Foundation.
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Acknowledgements:
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The second revision of this text has benefited from the (witting or unwitting)
helpful input of Amirouche Boubekki, Kino Coursey, John Cowan, Marc Nieper-Wißk
irchen, Adam Vandervorst and Steven Wiley.
Absolutely none of this would have been possible without a decade's worth
of gracious support and tutelage of Ben Goertzel.
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Anonymous citations:
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There are no anonymous citations in this text.
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Conflicts of Interest:
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I am not aware of any potential conflicts of interest with any potential
reviewer; my work is sufficiently removed from the mainstream, that it
is unlikely that I will have had prior contact with potential reviewers.
Exceptions would be employees of Singularity.AI, associates of the OpenCog
Foundation and users of and contributors to the OpenCog system.
Among these are various grad students and professors; to the best of my
knowledge, knowing their fields of expertise and interest, it is very unlikely
that they would be chosen as reviewers.
They are not database geeks.
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Well-known or Unique Systems:
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The OpenCog system is well-known.
It is an open source project, with hundreds of contributors.
I am one of the more prominent and active contributors; some quality time
with a search engine, together with some basic sleuthing common-sense,
would quickly narrow things down to my being the likely author.
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Prior Publication:
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This work has been disseminated to a small number of people; primarily,
the employees at Singularity.AI and associates of the OpenCog Foundation.
In it's original form, it was meant to be a limited techical report; but
there have been repeated suggestions that it should be published in a prominent
journal.
The techical report can be found on github, as a part of project documentation.
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Novelty:
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None of the contents, nor paraphrasings or variations thereof, have appeared
in any journal before.
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Disclosure:
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