- From: Francois Bry <bry@ifi.lmu.de>
- Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 15:54:26 +0100
- Cc: public-rif-wg@w3.org
Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: >From: "Ginsberg, Allen" <AGINSBERG@imc.mitre.org> > > >>Let's grant that the RIF is a rule language and that it is executABLE. >> >>There are still two questions that need to be considered: >> >>1) Does a RIF-representation ever need to be executED in order for the >>RIF to do any of its jobs, and >>2) If so, does the execution required for the RIF to do its job amount >>to the same thing as a rule language executing? >> >> > >This depends on what you mean by "executed". If a RIF-KB is translated into >another rule language and the result is executed, is the RIF-KB itself >executed? > Yes, if this translation is part of an implementation of a specified procedural semantics of RIF. No, otherwise. The "otherwsise" case is likely to be the freqwuent one, I beleive. -- Francois
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