Re: Anonymous individuals (again!)

Hi Boris,

Thanks for the hard work. Are there any examples to illustrate why we
can have anonymous individuals in OWL 2 RL but not the other two profiles?

Thanks,

Jeff



Boris Motik wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The problems with anonymous individuals that I noticed in the Profiles made me look again at the global restrictions on anonymous
> individuals in Section 11.2. I noticed a slight error in the global restrictions, which I've fixed. After fixing this error, I
> realized that
>
> - the restriction on no anonymous individuals in OWL 2 EL and OWL 2 QL is strictly needed if we don't want to lose good
> computational properties;
>
> - however, in OWL 2 RL this restriction isn't needed -- that is, even with anonymous individuals reasoning in OWL 2 RL can be
> implemented in polynomial time.
>
> Consequently, I've removed the restriction on no anonymous individuals in OWL 2 RL from the Profiles document.
>
> I'm now done with all my changes to the spec -- we are ready to roll!
>
> Regards,
>
>       Boris
>
>
>
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>
>



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