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Re: [RIFWG] [Requirements?] A vision for the RIF

From: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@isr.umd.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:05:29 -0400
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Cc: Francois Bry <bry@ifi.lmu.de>, edbark@nist.gov, Chris Welty <cawelty@frontiernet.net>, public-rif-wg@w3.org
To: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>

I'm not particularly up on the literature on integrity constraints, but 
what I've seen seems to fall in line behind Reiter and Michael (roughly 
that integrity constraints are not first order/are "epistemic"). (And 
this isn't just in the LP or database literature.) That doesn't mean 
that there isn't something I've not seen, of course. So I'm wondering 
if anyone has some pointers to alternative conceptions (preferably post 
"On Integrity Constraints"). (That is, I'm looking for evidence that 
there are pre-existing such conceptions. The "I can imagine" constraint 
seems a bit weak :))

I'm definitely missing what's at stake :)

Cheers,
Bijan.
Received on Tuesday, 25 April 2006 03:05:50 GMT

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