- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:27:59 -0500
- To: tim finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
- Cc: www-webont-wg@w3.org
>The following issue was raised at the Amsterdam face-to-face meeting. >This is an attempt to capture it in text, as promised in the conference >call of 11 April, 2002. > > DAML+OIL has concepts of UniqueProperty and UnambiguousProperty that > are very useful but whose names seem to cause some confusion for > people learning the language. Assuming we have the same concepts in > OWL, we should decide on names that will be intuitive or at least > minimize confusion. For a DAML+OIL triple (S,P,0), if P is a > uniqueProperty then S, the subject value, uniquely identifies O, the > object value. If P is an UnambiguousProperty then then O determines S. I suggest HasOnlyOne for UniqueProperty and IsTheOnlyOne for UnambiguousProperty. Then one could say things like HasOnlyOne Father (or IsTheOnlyOne FatherOf.) Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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