- From: Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk>
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:40:30 +0100
- To: Marijke Keet <keet@inf.unibz.it>
- Cc: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org
>>>>> "MK" == Marijke Keet <keet@inf.unibz.it> writes: MK> Regarding “reification design patterns” and the reification & MK> OWL (not the thorny logic-based representation of beliefs et MK> al), permit me to mention that support for n-ary relations MK> ---where n may also be >2--- in description logics is already MK> possible with DLR [1] and implemented with reasoner-support in MK> the iCOM tool (the tool may not live up to end-user-level MK> expectations on userfriendliness, but it works) [2]. Out of curiosity, can you describe how different or similar this is to the result that you can achieve in the N-ary relation design pattern for OWL? Obviously, building things into the DL is nice, but it's not currently representable in OWL, so would require tooling support, while the OWL N-ary relation pattern doesn't. Phil
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