Something strange in OWL-S Upper Ontology

Hi, to all 

I'm interested in automatic Discovery of Semantized Web Services. 
I'm trying to apply OWL-S upper ontology for Services, to discover the
semantized services. 
But, working with owl-s rel. 1.0 I founded something  that seems to be
strange. 

1) In http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/1.0/Profile.owl
<http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/1.0/Profile.owl>  , I founded the
following declaration of "has_process" property.

  <!-- 
    has_process is a pointer the process that is associated with the 
    service. 
    --> 

  <owl:FunctionalProperty rdf:ID="has_process"> 
    <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Profile"/> 
    <rdfs:range rdf:resource="&process;#Process"/> 
  </owl:FunctionalProperty> 

But on http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/#FunctionalProperty-def
<http://www.w3.org/TR/owl-ref/#FunctionalProperty-def>  I read that
owl:FunctionalProperty is a "Global cardinality constraints on
properties" not an other ObjectProperty, so It seems that the rigth form
to define "has_process" should be, something like that:

  <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="has_process"> 
    <rdf:type    rdf:resource="&owl;FunctionalProperty" /> 
    <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#Profile"/> 
    <rdfs:range rdf:resource="&process;#Process"/> 
  </owl:ObjectProperty> 

2) Another, strange thing (at least for me) is that both ontology
http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/1.0/Profile.owl
<http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/1.0/Profile.owl>  and
http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/1.0/Process.owl
<http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/1.0/Process.owl>  define
hasParameter as a owl:ObjectProperty with a well defined domain. But,
hasInput and hasOutput, was defined as subPropertyOf hasParameter
without a defined domain.

I wasn't able to find that subPropertyOf implies a domain inheritance,
so maibe should be better to repeat the domain. 


Best regards, Ivano 

Sorry, for my English. 

Ing. Ivano De Furio 
ServiceWare 

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Received on Friday, 9 July 2004 04:12:43 UTC