Re: [RIF] [UCR]: What is the RIF (revisited) --> disjunctive conclusions

Ed Barkmeyer wrote

>The point is that a "business rule" taken out of an interpretation context can 
>be highly ambiguous.  
>
Right. But this "out-of-context" use is an extremely important issue. 
THe Web has been successfull to a largfge extent because it is based on 
making an "out-of-context" use possible. My strong conviction is that 
RIF should make such a use easy.

Consider again my example: "every student with major in Computer Science 
must have a minor in Mathematics or in Physics".

The rule is prefectly clear to everyone (assuming an understanding of 
the words used). The rule can be used as an integrity ocnstraints (ie 
for checking if every strudent enforce it), the rule can be used 
combined with other regulations (=TBoxes) for deriving interewsting 
conclusions without considering student data (=Aboxes).

RIF should not exclude any use.

-- 
Francois

Received on Thursday, 9 February 2006 08:11:39 UTC