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Re: [TED] Action-188, ISSUE: production rule systems have "difficulty" with recursive rules in RIF Core

From: Christian de Sainte Marie <csma@ilog.fr>
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:11:37 +0100
Message-ID: <4587F319.5090104@ilog.fr>
To: Christian de Sainte Marie <csma@ilog.fr>
CC: Gary Hallmark <gary.hallmark@oracle.com>, W3C RIF WG <public-rif-wg@w3.org>


Gary Hallmark wrote:
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> is there a general strategy to evaluate recursive positive Horn rules using forward chaining, so that every ruleset in RIF Core can be translated to production rules?

Christian de Sainte Marie wrote:
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> But, again, is that really relelvant to RIF?

Notice that, even if recursion may not be one of them, this sort of 
problems exist: we still have the question of whether and how datalog 
engines can conform to RIF Core, for instance...

Christian
Received on Tuesday, 19 December 2006 14:11:40 GMT

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