Re: policies in OWL

Dear Doctor James ,

Thank you a lot for your prompt response.

I found on the link, you have sent, a paper titled “Representing Web Service Policies in OWL-DL”. And this is where I started.

This paper is talking about translating one policy language which is WS-Policy into OWL-DL then makes reasoning using the Pellet reasoner and Swoop ontology editor over the new translated policy (in OWL-DL). I have some questions and I’ll be in great dept to you if you kindly answer my inquires.

First, What about expressing the security policy in OWL directly? Why should we express the policy in other language, like WS-Policy in this case, and then make this translation?

Second, can I use the WS-Policy for representing policies for agents or it is restricted only for web services?

Third, does that translation work also for WS-SecurityPolicy, as I'm interested in security policies?

Finally, Can I use Pellet, Swoop as well as the proposed translation system and integrate them in my system??

 

Thanks in advance,

Somaya


Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu> wrote:At 4:27 -0700 5/18/05, Somaya Aboulwafa wrote:
Hi Everyone,

I#1610;m new to semantic web languages. I want to choose a language for representing and reasoning over policies. I wonder can I use OWL for representing security polices?? In addition, How can I reason over those polices? And what type of reasoning does OWL support?

Thanks in advance,

Somaya


                
Somaya - it would take a long time to provide detailed answers to all those questions.  Some of the people in my lab, particularly Bijan Parsia and Vlad Kolovski have done work on representing policies in OWL, and their work is described at
  http://www.mindswap.org/2005/services-policies/
which includes pointers to some papers and presentations that might better answer your questions and also a demo ontology showing how it works (when you load into our ontology browser and turn on an OWL reasoner).  There is also an XSLT for mapping from the Web Services Policy Language (WS-Policy) to OWL that can be used as a starting place for this work
 Hope that helps,
  Jim H


 

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