RE: WS Architectural Loose Ends / Outstanding issues

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Katia Sycara [mailto:katia@cs.cmu.edu] 
> > Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 1:34 PM
> > To: 'Champion, Mike'; www-ws-arch@w3.org
> > Cc: katia@cs.cmu.edu
> > Subject: RE: WS Architectural Loose Ends / Outstanding issues
> > 
> > Mike, yes, this is the minimum that should be said.
> >  We may want to say more (e.g. perhaps bringing common 
> > ontologies into the picture --I find it very probable that 
> > industries would want to define and utilize such ontologies 
> > extensively).
> 
> I find it very probable that they will spend years debating the "real"
> meaning of common terms that everyone understands intuitively <duck>.
> 

Another problem is that the set of ontologies understood by different services/requesters might be different, so you have the problem of reasoning across them.

This issue was recently discussed on the SWS-IG list (see http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-sws-ig/2003Dec/thread.html, the "cross-ontologies reasoning" thread).

Ugo

Received on Thursday, 8 January 2004 15:36:58 UTC