Atructure and interpretation of rational activity, including the topics of understanding the varieties of ideal and limited rationality; using rationality as a fundamental category for system specification on a par with computational, communicational, and epistemic specifications; development of qualitative decision theory; and understanding rational methods in automation of deliberation, planning, negotiation, learning, and representation, and archival computing, by which I mean the computational construction, organization, maintenance, and analysis of archival stores, including topics of exploratory data analysis, data mining, and trend analysis; machine learning and automated discovery; ontology construction and maintenance; and computational self-analysis and reason maintenance
