Re: Introductions

Hi All...

I'm the principal representative for Ontology Works, Inc.

> At the start of your introduction, please state "Principal" or
> "Alternate", and "Attending F2F" or "Regrets for F2F", to help people
> begin to form their picture of the group.
>
> After that, the topics one generally covers are:
>
>   -- a bio summarizing experience you have that's relevant to the
>      work of this group

Ontology Works is a database company (i.e., we make and sell a DBMS)  
that also offers tools for ontology engineering.   We started in 1998  
with a language that is syntactically very similar to CLIF (KIF-fy  
CL) but semantically was WFS.  I (along with Josh Engel, also of OWI)  
was part of the team that designed and implemented tools around that  
language.  There were no standards then for such rule languages.  Now  
that there is interest in working toward a rule standard, we are  
naturally interested in becoming compatible with it as it emerges.

My personal experience is more with philosophical logic and ontology,  
but I've been forced to understand a lot about logic programming  
semantics through my practical work.

>   -- as much contact info as you care to share on this public list

See below.

>   -- what you expect to get out of this WG

We'd like to make sure that any standard that emerges is likely to  
contain those features we need.  We are also quite interested in  
becoming compatible with existing and emerging SW standards.

>   -- what you hope/expect to contribute.

We would like to offer our experience with actual ontology-based  
database applications and the requirements they place on rule-based  
systems.

> Thanks!   I'm looking forward to seeing many of you next week!
>
>     -- sandro
>
>

Bill Andersen (andersen@ontologyworks.com)
Chief Scientist
Ontology Works, Inc. (www.ontologyworks.com)
1132 Annapolis Road, Suite 104,
Odenton, MD 21113
Office: 410-674-7600
Cell: 443-858-6444
Fax: 410-674-6075

Received on Saturday, 3 December 2005 21:48:25 UTC