Re: What do the ontologists want

pat hayes wrote:
> >We're working on models for representing and reasoning about security,
> >authorization, delegation etc and find a need to represent speech
> >acts such as one agent's assertion that it delegates a permission to
> >another agent.  An agent's obligations and permissions
> >can be determined by reasoning from the representation of the security
> >policy together with a set of validly signed public speech acts.
> >Our approach is to try to use DAML to represent the FIPA communicative acts and associated
> >parameters as well as a FIPA compliant content language.
> 
> OK, but what utility is quotation in describing speech acts?

I don't know about quotation in general, but my understanding was
that what's called reification in RDF will be what one would use 
to represent a statement and also that an agent has used that same
statement as the content of an INFORM act.  Although this approach
seems natural to me, it's probably not strictly required.

Received on Tuesday, 15 May 2001 17:36:05 UTC