- From: Chimezie Ogbuji <chimezie@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 14:06:53 -0400
- To: public-cwm-talk@w3.org
- Message-ID: <f6ec8dcb0607061106q23c49a30h1d4e1002d3ce8cb8@mail.gmail.com>
Hello there. I've been working on a RETE network implementation from scratch for built-in forward-chaining capabilities in FuXi (as a workaround for the software dependencies associated with the reasoner it's currently using: PyChinko). In doing so, I have been working towards an RDF vocabulary for representing a compiled RETE network mainly for the purpose of debugging / testing the RETE network compliaton algorithm. I've attached the ontology I've been using so far. I think there are other related values in exporting an RDF representation of a RETE network (built from a set of N3 rules), such as: 1) Reasoner interoperability: forward-chaining implementations of the RETE algorithm that only support the 'evaluation' of a network but not it's compliation can rely on 'other' tools to do so and export the compiled network in a 'portable' way. 2) For visualizing a compiled RETE network as an RDF graph 3) As a means to test an implementation of the RETE network compilation algorithm (which is how I'm currently using this vocabulary). 4) For facilitating a forward-chaining proof generator. I'm still trying to wrap my head around 4), but it seems to me that there is some commonality between representing a proof for a set of rules and a RETE network (built from these same rules): which is essentially a unification tree of the patterns in the LHS of the rule (with minimal redundancy - as a result of the RETE algorithm). My immediate concern, however is whether I shouldn't take a closer look at reason.n3 in order to reuse vocabulary terms that represent the same concepts (between a proof and a compiled RETE network). I was hoping for some guidance with where that overlap might be :) Any input would be very helpful for what I'm doing.. thanks Chimezie reasoning as well as the possiblity of generating proofs via forward-chaining
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- application/octet-stream attachment: ReteVocabulary.owl
Received on Thursday, 6 July 2006 18:07:00 UTC