Re: Effects in OWL-S

With all these ideas going on about preconditions and effects in OWL-S it is
quite difficult to capture the general idea of how to define actual effects
in WSs.

I had the impression that an effect was something that will become true when
the WS has executed but that also brought some changes to the world, but now
there is talk of making use of post-condition instead. Actually from the
readings that I found, these two words seem to be used interchangeably,
depending on the research context, and thus I always presumed that they are
somewhat synonymous.

What are the views of the OWL-S ppl on this? Cause with all these somewhat
radical changes being proposed it is quite difficult to get people to
actually make use of these ontologies. Will there every be a stable set of
OWL-S ontologies?

Some time back there was a long discussion on the topic; I guess some
clarification is now due.

Regards

Charlie

Received on Wednesday, 14 April 2004 13:25:44 UTC