- From: Frank McCabe <frank.mccabe@us.fujitsu.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 13:57:00 -0800
- To: "Ginsberg, Allen" <AGINSBERG@imc.mitre.org>
- Cc: <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
If I might push back on this suggestion a little ... It seems to me that an abstraction/categorization of use cases is not itself a use case. I am working on the following pattern at the moment: <snip> #pragma section-numbers on == Abstract == Information integration uses cases focus on the merging of multiple sources of information to present a unified view to the user. Integrating information often involves merging information with different semantic sources (databases versus readings from physical devices versus accessing content in the form of web pages, knowledge bases), different syntactic forms (RDF, OWL, HTML, raw data streams) and across different ownership domains. == Uses case examples == The uses cases that come into this general category are: * ["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"] * ["Organizing a Vacation with Friends"] * ["Rule-Based Combined Access to XML and RDF Data"] * ["Rule-Based Intelligent Guiding"] * ["Rule-Based Reactive Organizer"] * ["Scoped negation, Encapsulation"] * ["Situation Assessment and Adaptation"] * ["SW rules for Health Care and Life Sciences"] == Common themes == * Multiple sources of information * Different semantics of rule languages * Combining information with different semantics * Different ownership domains == Requirements arising == * Scoping of negation and other inference * Multiple theories and logics * Compatibility with legacy information == Role of rule interchange == * A RIF can serve as an inter-lingua and anchor point between the different sources of information == Commentary == Information integration is one of the oldest uses of knowledge bases systems. It is no surprise that there are many use cases for a RIF that exemplify this. Some particular aspects that become important with a RIF are the ability to handle information whose semantic basis is itself heterogeneous (for example, an LP-based system has information that needs to be combined with an OWL-based system and a 'raw' XML-based system) and also an ability to be able to freely combine information across ownership domains (i.e., combining information belonging to more than one party). This has implications for the kinds of inference needed and for the kinds of scoping (such as in negation) needed. This is over and above normal engineering requirements arising from combining information in a variety of syntactic forms. </snip> Frank On Jan 11, 2006, at 1:10 PM, Ginsberg, Allen wrote: > > This message is for those of you who volunteered to come up with a use > case template for one of the general categories of use cases > abstracted > from the submitted use cases. > > I don't recall that we said exactly how to edit the Wiki to do this. > What I just did was to create a new use case (using the existing use > case template) with the general category as the title and link to that > from the "General_Use_Case_Categories" page. > > I couldn't figure out how to make the section heading into a link, > so I > created a link beneath the heading as follows: > > == Third Party Rule-Interchange Services == > > * ["Third Party Rule-Interchange Services"] > > Abstracts: > > * ["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"] > > > If any has a better approach, by all means let us know. > > Allen >
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