Re: RIF: Production and Event-Condition-Action Rules

Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>> A few thoughts on Production and Event-Condition-Action Rules and the RIF:
>>
>> 1. Production and Event-Condition-Action Rules are a must for RIF
>> because they are needed for many applications.
>>     
>
> I believe that this is only necessarily the case under two extra
> assumptions:
> 1/ That the widescale adoption goal must be met.
> 2/ That the widescale adoption goal cannot be met without having these
>    applications. 
> I do not believe that either of the assumptions are true.  I do not believe
> that either of the assumptions are held by all the other members of the
> working group.
>   

In my opinion, assumption 2 is considerably more likely than its negation.

Assumption 1 is already given by the very concept of Semantic Web.

Francois

Received on Friday, 2 June 2006 11:37:23 UTC