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In order to reduce drastically the iConceptStore frontend developer skill requirements, the widely used JavaScript language has been integrated with iConceptStore on the client side to enable flexible two-way HTTP communication between web browser client applications (based on popular JavaScript frameworks and/or libraries such as React, Vue, Angular and/or jQuery) and remote instances of iConceptStore Enterprise Edition. Although slower, the new JavaScript  remote interface is functionally equivalent to the existing iConceptStore high-performance C++/COM remote interface (both possibly used even simultaneously) and can as well request and handle either synchronous or asynchronous response from any remote iConceptStore server.

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Work on methodology, design and implementation of iConceptStore+, a functionally extended future version of iConceptStore, has started. In iConceptStore the main emphasis is on rigorous yet flexible means of intelligent systems' information representation that requires scientific degree of objectivity, clarity and precision of expression during systematic elicitation of relevant application domain knowledge (tacit or documented expertise) before its multi-level structured description in human-friendly CML conceptual form, subsequently converted (using the related CML Compiler) to digital form for efficient storage and retrieval. Conversely, iConceptStore+ is aimed at further automated deductive explication, transformation and consistent use of such generalised and structurally highly organised knowledge through dynamic simulation of the related mental process of systems thinking based distinctive form of creative reasoning, as typically exhibited by experts in different fields of engineering and manufacturing, whose related thought process also requires high degree of logical precision during their product conceptual design and process planning activities. In the future these two complementary aspects would develop in synchrony with each other.

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A new original iConceptStore programmatic (C++ and COM) HTTP-based interface encompassing both system (binary) and task (semantic) levels has been developed as a first step towards enabling Windows Server 2019 based iConceptStore cloud and/or LAN deployment with or without local desktop installation. It provides transparent unified access to any iConceptStore based remote services across Internet and/or LAN, possibly in combination with any such integrated services, residing on the local desktop. A light-weight remote access configuration version is also provided for iConceptStore based Process Control/Monitoring services and other applications, residing on any remote Windows 10/7/XP machine.

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A new iConceptStore Robotic Process Automation Framework has emerged as a result of AutoHotKey integration.

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The recent launch of the new 3.7 version of iConceptStore an advanced knowledge base platform for next generation intelligent workstations marks another attempt to prove in practice rather than in conference rooms that science has some ultimate pragmatic value. The unique Conceptual Modelling Language (CML) of the Conceptor knowledge engineering subsystem of this version features an extensive set of new modelling categories, dynamically supported by its run-time engine and related APIs. Apart from its practical potential in mainstream computing, the iConceptStore infrastructure, functionality and tools are intended to serve as a foundation for further cognitive technology research and development efforts planned. iConceptStore based projects in strategic application domains are already in progress.

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Dr Vesselin I. Kirov created iConceptStore (an innovative set of intelligent systems engineering language and software tools, based on his original cognitive methodology) during last two decades from inception to ultimate reference implementation (using no one else’s mind, labour or money) as a reflection of his previous (more than thirty years) relevant experience in different application domains. During this lengthy process of multiple extensions, modifications and refinements iConceptStore gradually evolved from a simple prototype to a general-purpose toolset. As in the case of every other tool in the world (operating systems included) this evolution was a consequence of progressively changing functional requirements while continually expanding the range of specific applications developed, some of which are briefly mentioned on this website. The difference was that these applications were aimed at serving our own rather than any customers’ needs. Some of these private applications (e.g., the integration of MS Excel through its iConceptStore VBA Add-in) turned themselves into generic decision-making and information management tools (ready for customers’ use) and became valuable parts of the iConceptStore ecosystem. 

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