RE: ACTION-203 done (resolution of ISSUE-118 - semantics of anonymous individuals)

Hello,

They could; however, the existing way of handling things is deliberate, as it makes the structural specification more uniform.


Furthermore, as already discussed, there is no observable difference between the Skolem semantics and the existential one for all
inference problems apart from certain entailments, which DL users are typically not interested in anyway. In such cases, without
changing the set of "interesting" consequences, one can skolemize the anonymous individuals; but then, one can freely drop the
global restrictions altogether without funning into decidability problems. The way resolution of ISSUE-118 has been implemented
allows precisely for that: a tool can simply forget about Global Restrictions 4 and 5 and obtain a language that can be interpreted
under the Skolem semantics for all practical intents and purposes.

Regards,

	Boris

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alan Ruttenberg [mailto:alanruttenberg@gmail.com]
> Sent: 28 August 2008 02:13
> To: Boris Motik
> Cc: 'W3C OWL Working Group'
> Subject: Re: ACTION-203 done (resolution of ISSUE-118 - semantics of anonymous individuals)
> 
> Couldn't the Same/DifferentIndividuals, and Negative property
> assertion restrictions be handled in the grammar - they seem local
> rather than global.
> 
> -Alan
> 
> * <span class="nonterminal">SameIndividual</span>, <span
> class="nonterminal">DifferentIndividuals</span>, <span
> class="nonterminal">NegativeObjectPropertyAssertion</span>, and <span
> class="nonterminal">NegativeDataPropertyAssertion</span>.
> 
> ps. The Syntax link is http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?
> title=Syntax&diff=11932&oldid=11929 as best I can tell.
> 
> On Aug 27, 2008, at 9:32 PM, Boris Motik wrote:
> 
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've just implemented my ACTION-203, which was to implement
> > resolution of ISSUE-118 (semantics of anonymous individuals). Here are
> > the diffs for various documents:
> >
> > Semantics:
> > http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?
> > title=Semantics&diff=11942&oldid=11531
> >
> > Syntax:
> > http://www.w3.org/2007/OWL/wiki/index.php?title=Syntax&action=history
> >
> > Please let me know should you have any comments.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > 	Boris
> >
> >

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