Re: Anonymous individuals and profiles

Why can the constraint on anonymous individuals not be moved the the
conditions in the theorem, rather than affect the syntax? I think this
would better match what is intended, as well as match expected
practice (that bnodes will be used in RL)?

-Alan

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:47 AM, Ivan Herman <ivan@w3.org> wrote:
> Sort of... withdrawn:-)
>
> Having discussed with Ian, too, he made me realized that the OWL RL rule
> set can be (and will be) applied on a larger set of graphs, and this
> affects the completeness criteria only. If that restriction is required
> for the completeness then, well, let it be:-) It will not affect the way
> rules will be used I guess.
>
> ivan
>
> Ivan Herman wrote:
>> Boris,
>>
>> for my understanding: does it mean that, for OWL RL, a compliant
>> implementation using the rule set would be expected to disallow the
>> usage of BNodes in the rules? At first glance this seems to be fairly
>> restrictive and not really understandable for neither the users nor for
>> implementers; indeed, the rule set seems to be absolutely oblivious to
>> the fact whether some of the resources are BNodes or not. Consequently,
>> I would expect rule based implementers to ignore this restriction.
>>
>> Can you explain the rationale for this? Is it _really_ necessary to
>> disallow BNodes?
>>
>> Ivan
>>
>> Boris Motik wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> It turns out that, when we introduced anonymous individuals into OWL 2, we implicitly introduced them into all the profiles as well.
>>> I only noticed this yesterday while creating the complete grammars -- good thing people suggested that I do that! This is clearly an
>>> error, as anonymous individuals increase the complexity of reasoning in some cases. I have corrected this error, but, because it did
>>> involve a small change to the language, I thought that I should at least bring it to everyone's attention.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>>      Boris
>>>
>>>
>>
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