Re: Introductions

Alternate for REWERSE, regrets for F2F.


  -- a bio summarizing experience you have that's relevant to the
>      work of this group


Been working on rules for the semantic web from the very beginning (1998),
cf. the first Semantic Web Rules system, Metalog (
http://www.w3.org/RDF/Metalog ).
Generally interested in all cool web technologies, esp. XML based, and on
information systems for the Web. Helped starting and been working for years
as W3C contact in the XML-Query (XQuery) project, authored the P3P (Platform
for Privacy Preferences) standard, and also participated in the OWL working
group.

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


Currently professor at the University of Venice (and here in the RIF,
alternate for the REWERSE network of excellence, cf. www.rewerse.net), email
is by far the best way to contact me wherever I am.


  -- what you expect to get out of this WG


First and foremost, something useful to do reasoning and inferencing on the
Semantic Web. The current charter is (correctly, as that'll have to be
clarified by the membership) fuzzy wrt the precise positioning of this new
Rules Languages in the SW arena, esp. wrt relationship to SPARQL and OWL. I
myself would go for a very simple reasoning core, get a quick spec out
there, and being concerned with the most important use cases (80/20 cut),
rather than trying to go with the all-comprehensive killer reasoning
language for the web. Note here reasoning means reasoning in the Semantic
Web, i.e. I'm not much interested in letting the language just be an
interchange format for closed-world limited business rules apps.



>   -- what you hope/expect to contribute.


Expertize in WWW technologies and web languages, adequate level of
formalism, long experience in W3C interoperability and standards, "big
picture" thoughts.

-M