[UCR] General Use Case Categories and next step

Dear RIF-WGers,

David and I have come up with 7 general use case categories.  The
categories are listed below in alphabetical order and under each title
we list (in alphabetical order) the submitted use-cases that we see as
falling in that category. Submitted use-cases may fall in more than one
category.  This is, of course, a tentative and not necessarily complete
or optimal categorization, but we feel that it is a pretty good start.

What we would like to do is to "synthesize," as much as possible, the
submitted use-cases in each category into one unified narrative and
list of possible requirements.  In other words, fill out a use-case
template for each of the 7 general categories based on the subsumed
submitted use-cases.  

Since time is short we would like to ask for volunteers to work on each
category.

(After the 7 categories below, we list submitted use-cases that we have
not been able to classify so far and those whose description on the
WIKI were incomplete.)

Allen & David



Information Integration
-----------------------

  Automatically generated rules
  Frame-based representation, Inheritance of defaults, Reification
  Information Integration with Rules and Taxonomies
  Internet search: combining query language, rule languages and scoped
negation
  Managing incomplete information
  Ontology Mapping with OWL and Rules
  Rule-Based Combined Access to XML and RDF Data
  Rule-Based Intelligent Guiding
  Rule-Based Reactive Organizer
  Scoped negation, Encapsulation
  SW rules for Health Care and Life Sciences
 
Decision Support
----------------

  Decision Making in Health Care
  Distributed E-Learning
  Enterprise Information Integration
  Fuzzy Reasoning with Brain Anatomical Structures
  Organizing a Vacation with Friends [or Inf. Int.]
  Product Compatibility
  Situation Assessment and Adaptation
 

Interoperability Across Rule Engines and Tools
----------------------------------------------

  Operationally Equivalent Translations
  Portability
  Real-time contract exchange
  Rule-Based Email Manipulation           
  Rule Interchange Through Test-Driven Verification and Validation
  Transfer of rules between different vendor products
 

Policy-Based Transaction Authorization and Access Control
---------------------------------------------------------

  Automated Trust Establishment for eCommerce
  Automated Trust Establishment for Accessing Medical Records
  Credit Card Transaction Authorization
  Policy - Preference Computing
  Price Discounting 
  Refund Policies in E-Commerce
  Supply Chain Ordering Lead Time also involves policies
 

Regulation/Constraint Compliance Monitoring
-------------------------------------------

  Importing rules to check data compliance
  Interpretation and Interchange of Regulations
 

Publication
-----------

  Publication of semantics (e.g. SKOS, RDFS)
  RIF RuleML FOAF
 
 
Third Party Rule-Interchange-Enabling Service Providers
-------------------------------------------------------

  Message Transformation
  Operationally Equivalent Translations
  Rule-based Service Level Agreements (SLA) and Web Services
  Rule Based Service Level Management and SLAs for Service Oriented
Computing
 

UNCLASSIFIED:
 
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/Filling_the_holes_of_OWL
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/Classification_of_Rules_w%2er%2et%
2e_their_role
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/Labeling_Brain_Anatomical_Structur
es_in_Digital_Images
 

INCOMPLETE:
 
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/E-Contracts_with_Exceptions,_with_
OWL_Process_Ontologies
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/E-Procurement_Contract_Exchange,_w
ith_Default-Inheritance_Ontologies
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/Interchange_of_Business_Rules_betw
een_Business_People_in_Different_Organizations_%28Units%29_When_Making_
Agreements
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/Interchange_of_Business_Rules_betw
een_People_Who_Run_Organizations_and_Internally/Externally_Supplied_IT_
Systems
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/Representing_some_levels_of_fuzzy_
rules_with_the_help_of_datatype_built-ins

Received on Tuesday, 10 January 2006 14:08:11 UTC