- From: Alan Wu <alan.wu@oracle.com>
- Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:35:20 -0400
- To: Bijan Parsia <bparsia@cs.man.ac.uk>
- CC: Michael Schneider <schneid@fzi.de>, Carsten Lutz <clu@tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de>, OWL Working Group WG <public-owl-wg@w3.org>
Bijan, Bijan Parsia wrote: > > On 9 Apr 2008, at 19:54, Alan Wu wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Like your suggestions! :) I personally take 3) very seriously. In >> my opinion, reasoning is seldom the ultimate goal when users build a >> semantic application. It is the efficient query execution against >> large amount of semantic data that adds a lot of value. >> >> A few major motivations/design principles for OWL2 R as I see it. >> - expressive & highly scalable >> - easily understandable set of rules >> - friendly to triple oriented technology >> - allows rules-based forward chaining [your point 2)] >> - allows efficient query execution [your point 3)] >> >> I need a bit more time to merge them into one of two sentences. > > I'll just note that this has almost *nothing* to do (directly) with > the usability. I mean, sure, you say "expressive" in the first line, > but then *everything* else is computational or impelementational. > > That's fine, but scalability is a feature of *all* the fragments. I don't intend scalability to be a unique thing for OWL R at all. :) > Cheers, > Bijan. Thanks, Zhe
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