RE: [RIF] A Modest Proposal: Work Out Some Concrete Examples; --> complex language support

Some use cases will only require a subset of compatibility for rule support. In PRR for example, we are not supporting some of the "advanced production rule features" that some vendors support (eg rule priorities) as many production rules and rulesets can be modeled without recourse to manually prioritizing certain rules. 

Presumably the same will apply to RIF - a universal superset of all rule languages would be an interesting long term academic research project but not practical for the short term. [I believe this point has already been discussed of course!].

Paul Vincent
Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor --- Business Rule Management
OMG Standards for Business Rules, PRR & BPMI
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From: public-rif-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-rif-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Dieter Fensel
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 5:25 AM
To: Francis McCabe
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Subject: Re: [RIF] A Modest Proposal: Work Out Some Concrete Examples; Example-1: CHANGE-BABY-IF-WET rule


Dear Frank,

whereas I could stay with the fact that RIF rules out translation
from your own complex language I can unfortunately not confirm simple
syntax and semantics of XML, RDF, and OWL.

Dieter


At 20:20 01.02.2006 -0800, Francis McCabe wrote:

>If this really is the goal, then YARL had better have an extremely
>simple semantics, syntax etc. That rules out (sic) translation from
>more complex rule languages (including my own). Losing semantics is
>not acceptable in the web environment.
>
>Frank
>On Feb 1, 2006, at 7:34 PM, Dieter Fensel wrote:
>
>>At 01:31 02.02.2006 +0000, Francis McCabe wrote:
>>
>>>1. define Yet Another Rule Language. Of course, this is fun to do;
>>>but we already have so many of them.
>>
>>We may have many rule languages but only very few of them are
>>properly aligned
>>with web principles and existing web standards.
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