Re: 600 too large? dl-904

At 5:18 PM +0200 9/10/03, Jeremy Carroll wrote:
>Concerning the dl test 904:
>
>http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-owl-test-20030818/dl-900-arith#description-logi
>c-904
>
>
>Jim wrote:
>>  I would, however, like to suggest we make this test with the numbers
>>  200, 300, and 600 into an extra credit test -- now that my group has
>>  built Pellet, and run this problem with various values of i,j and k,
>>  I'm more sure then ever that we're just looking at a large
>>  combinatorics problem -- with enough space and time the system would
>>  prove it, and I think anything that doesn't need to enumerate
>>  examples will require some sort of heuristic -- we could pick a
>>  smaller number (20, 30, 60) to be the harder version of the problem
>>  if we think we need some values to push people a bit more...
>>
>
>
>My point of view in putting this test in was the following:
>
>1) there are implementation strategies, such as those investigate by the
>Racer team, that keep track of cardinalities as numbers and have a linear
>programming module that check such constraints. I do not know the state of
>that work, nor whether it is directly applicable to this test.
>
>2) 600 was intended to be big enough to blow a brute force approach.
>
>3) If the implementors cannot handle 600 then IMO it is a sufficiently small
>number that some OWL users may be surprised.
>
>4) Thus if the WG would choose to move this test to extra credit, I would
>like to see appropriate health warnings, may be in reference or guide, to
>the effect that, currently, the numbers in the cardinality constraints
>should be kept small. The test document extra credit section could better
>document our combined implementation experience.
>
>Jeremy

Jeremy-
   I misread how the problems were encoded (thanks to Bijan for 
explaining this to me) - let's wait to see what Racer and some others 
do
  -JH


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