Re: [UCR] RIF needs different reasoning methods

Dear Bijan,
> It's declaring their expressive profile? I mean, is it (anything like)
> the OWL species? Or the KIF conformance profiles?
>     <http://logic.stanford.edu/kif/dpans.html#12.3>
They don't.

> Well, if they give the same answers....isn't everything else just an
> implementation detail?
Well, one might call 'implementation detail' everything that goes beyond
theoretical considerations. In my opinion, the capability to specify
different kinds of rules and/or different kind of reasoning is essential
for the RIF to be well received in practice.
> This doesn't mean it's not worth identifying important fragments and
> profiles (though that can be quite the painful game...hard to get right).
It is not hard if one considers what business rules in practice are.

Regards,

Francois

Received on Monday, 6 March 2006 16:02:58 UTC