Negation, local closed world, log:Falsehood?

I've been reading the paper by Heflin/Munoz-Avila [1] on using local closed 
world declarations (LCW) with semantic web reasoners, and thinking about 
how the ideas might apply to Notation3 and cwm.

I'm (again) looking at processing network access-related descriptions, and 
wish to deduce that a particular connection is not allowed if it is not 
explicitly permitted.  This presumes that a given list of permitted 
connections is complete.

Originally, I thought to use the "closed" property of a collection (list), 
but then realized that when the list contains compound values, expressed like:
   [ prop val ; prop val ]
in N3, the list closure potentially breaks down because there may be other 
statements that have the list-member resource as a subject.

Roughly, the LCW approach asserts that some locally scoped information is 
complete, and that absence of some information is sufficient to deduce its 
falsehood.  Examples given are based on DAML+OIL and SHOE, noting that DAML 
(also OWL) can express these ideas but to do so is somewhat cumbersome.

I went rummaging at:
   http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/doc/CwmBuiltins
thinking that there was something there about log:Falsehood and/or 
negation, which might be a way of latching onto the LCW ideas, but am 
finding nothing there.

Are there any common techniques for dealing with closed information in CWM?

Specifically, in the example below, I can deduce that :conn1 is a 
wc:AllowedConnection, but I wish to deduce that :conn2 is a 
wc:DisallowedConnection.

Ideas?

(My current thoughts are along the lines thus:

    { <pattern1> .
      { <pattern2> } a log:LCW_Falsehood .
    }
  =>
    { <conclusion using variables from <pattern1>> }

Where there is a presumption that the formula declared to be an 
LCW_Falsehood contains complete information in relation to nodes bound by 
<pattern1>.)

#g
--

[1] LCW-Based Agent Planning for the Semantic Web
     Jeff Heflin and Hector Muņoz-Avila
     http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~heflin/pubs/lcw-aaai02.pdf

...

Example data:
[[
# 20040308-wlan-connection.n3
#
# Meeting 20040308
#
# Data for WLAN connections example discussed in meeting
#
# -----

# Declare namespace prefixes
#
@prefix rdf:  <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
@prefix rdfs: <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix rdft: <http://id.ninebynine.org/2003/rdfext/rdft#> .
@prefix wd:   <http://id.ninebynine.org/wip/2003/wlanDevices/> .
@prefix wp:   <http://id.ninebynine.org/wip/2003/wlanPolicy/> .
@prefix wc:   <http://id.ninebynine.org/wip/2003/wlanConnection/> .
@prefix log:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/10/swap/log#> .   # CWM built-in
@prefix :     <#> .


# Declare data about wlan-connected devices

wd:BossComputer a wd:Device ;
     rdfs:label "Boss computer" ;    # Brief description
     wd:devid  "1" ;                 # Asset schedule identifier
     wd:wlanif [ wd:macadrs "00:00:00:00:00:11" ] ;
     rdfs:comment
         """
         This resource is a laptop computer belonging to
         "big boss", who is not technically literate but
         may have sensitive data on his/her computer.
         """ .

wd:AdminComputer a wd:Device ;
     rdfs:label "Admin computer" ;   # Brief description
     wd:devid  "2" ;                 # Asset schedule identifier
     wd:wlanif [ wd:macadrs "00:00:00:00:00:22" ] ;
     rdfs:comment
         """
         This resource is a laptop computer belonging to
         a system administrator, who is assumed to know how to
         protect it from casual attack.
         """ .

wd:SerfComputer a wd:Device ;
     rdfs:label "Serf computer" ;    # Brief description
     wd:devid  "3" ;                 # Asset schedule identifier
     wd:wlanif [ wd:macadrs "00:00:00:00:00:33" ] ;
     rdfs:comment
         """
         This resource is a laptop computer belonging to
         a company slave, who is regarded as an active risk
         to the company's network.
         """ .

wd:PublicAccess a wd:Device ;
     rdfs:label "Public AP" ;        # Brief description
     wd:devid  "8" ;                 # Asset schedule identifier
     wd:wlanif [ wd:macadrs "00:00:00:00:00:88" ] ;
     rdfs:comment
         """
         This resource is a wireless access point connected
         to the public facing side of a company's network.
         """ .

wd:PrivateAccess a wd:Device ;
     rdfs:label "Private AP" ;       # Brief description
     wd:devid  "9" ;                 # Asset schedule identifier
     wd:wlanif [ wd:macadrs "00:00:00:00:00:99" ] ;
     rdfs:comment
         """
         This resource is a wireless access point connected
         to the internal part of a company's network.
         """ .


# Declare data about company access policy.
# Any connection not explicitly allowed is forbidden.

wp:WlanPolicy a wp:ConnectionPolicy ;
     wp:allowedConnection
         [ wd:devid "1" , "9" ],
         [ wd:devid "2" , "8" ],
         [ wd:devid "2" , "9" ] ;
     rdfs:comment
         """
         Boss can connect to private network.
         Admin can connect to private and public networks.
         Serf can connect to none.
         """ .

# Describe some potential connections

:conn1 a wc:Connection ;
     wd:macadrs "00:00:00:00:00:11" ;
     wd:macadrs "00:00:00:00:00:99" ;
     rdfs:comment
         """
         Boss connects to private network.  OK.
         """ .

:conn2 a wc:Connection ;
     wd:macadrs "00:00:00:00:00:11" ;
     wd:macadrs "00:00:00:00:00:88" ;
     rdfs:comment
         """
         Boss connects to public network.  not OK.
         """ .


# Describe inference rules to define acceptability of a connection.

# 1. Deduce device connections from MAC address connections

   { ?c  a wc:Connection ;
         wd:macadrs ?ma1, ?ma2 .
     ?d1 a wd:Device ;
         wd:devid  ?di1 ;
         wd:wlanif [ wd:macadrs ?ma1 ] .
     ?d2 a wd:Device ;
         wd:devid  ?di2 ;
         wd:wlanif [ wd:macadrs ?ma2 ] . }
=>
   { ?c  wd:devid ?di1 , ?di2 . } .


# 2. Rule to define that connection is OK.

   { ?c  a wc:Connection ;
         wd:devid ?di1 , ?di2 .
     ?cp a wp:ConnectionPolicy ;
         wp:allowedConnection
           [ wd:devid ?di1, ?di2 ] .
     ?di1 log:notEqualTo ?di2 .
   }
=>
   { ?c  a wc:AllowedConnection . } .
]]



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Received on Tuesday, 9 March 2004 04:51:59 UTC