Technology

AvesTerra provides a distributed hyper-graph representation framework for global-scale represenation and analysis of massive heterogeneous data.  This framework incorporates unique provisions for security and privacy.

Architectural Description:

• The FOUR-Color Framework (4CF) (April 2016)
• Theoretical Framework
• Application Programming Interface (API) (Version 3.2, May 2018; N.B. new version numbering) 
• Hypergraph Transfer Protocol (HGTP) (Version 1.6a, March 2019)

Software Documentation

• Avial for Python (Version 2.5.3, May 2020)

Privacy and Security

• Smart, J. C., “Privacy Assurance”, Georgetown Journal on International Affairs, Georgetown University, Summer 2011.
• Smart, J. C., “Application of Reliable Computation to Sharing and Analysis of Private Information”

Information Repositories:

• Expandable Open Source (EOS) Archive

• SAPIEN