Re: Rules WG -- draft charter -- NAF

• From: Peter F. Patel-Schneider <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
• Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:02:34 -0500 (EST)
• To: stefan@ISI.EDU
• Cc: www-rdf-rules@w3.org
• Message-Id: <20031118.080234.47592628.pfps@research.bell-labs.com>

From: Stefan Decker <stefan@ISI.EDU>
Subject: Re: Rules WG -- draft charter -- NAF
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 12:15:47 +0000

> 
> Hi,
> 
> as far as I understand the discussion there are different issues:
> 
> 1) Reasoning with the Closed World Assumption on a given graph
> 2) Naming a given graph.
> 3) Collecting (or completing) a graph (data transclusion)
> 
> I think we all agree that doing 1) is easy.

[...]

Not so fast.  What if it is difficult to determine just what objects
(belonging to a particular class) exist?  Then what does closing (a class)
mean?

peter

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