Re: comments on Editor's Draft of UCR -- motivates links

Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
>> From use case 2.6:
>> 
>> "This use case illustrates how the RIF makes it possible to merge
>> rulesets from diverse sources in diverse formats into one rule-based
>> system, thereby enabling inferences that might otherwise have remained
>> implicit."
>> 
>> This rule-based system may get rules that it can't (completely) process
>> and involves important medical decisions so I'd say that default
>> behavior is motivated.
>
> I still don't see this as part of the use case.  I don't see how the use
> case speaks to partial understanding of rule sets.  On the contrary, I
> would say that this use case speaks to the necessity of *complete*
> processing of rule sets, because otherwise some important rule might no 
be
> processed accurately and someone might die.

Having reread the use case I agree that it is crucial to be explicit
about the scope, especially for negation as failure and findall.

-- 
Jos De Roo, AGFA http://www.agfa.com/w3c/jdroo/

Received on Tuesday, 27 June 2006 23:24:57 UTC