IEEE Internet Computing: Rethinking the Semantic Web - Part I

IEEE Internet Computing published a paper in its November/December 2005
Journal: Rethinking the Semantic Web - Part I. Please pay attention to the
quotation in blod on page 86: 

"Logic, which forms the basis of OWL, suffers from an inability to represent
exceptions to rules and the contexts in which they are valid".

Remember Albert Einstein said, "Make everything as simple as possible, but
not simpler". While authors for the paper "A Semantic Web Services
Architecture" published by IEEE Internet Computing, Issue Sep/Oct. 2005,
admitted that WWW is successful because it is wasy for use for ALL people,
their proposed architecture is not "as simple as possible", even not a
"simpler" solution.

Considering many scientists and engineers are NOT programmers, can we
develop some simple and easy architecture and framework for semantic Web
services? As I suggested, can we just focus on the request and response
communication and ignore the process? 

As a service requester (scientist, engineer, non-programmer, etc.), I am
waiting for an answer from the service provider. Why do you (provider) want
to tell me how you process my request? That's not my business, but rather,
it's provider's full responsibility to process the request and send back a
response. The provider just need to tell me in a more explicit and simple
way how to use the service and what can be expected as the outcome.

By the way, I'd like to raise such a challenge to "Semantic Web Services
Challenge 2006" to be held in Stanford, as can we find a way to ignore the
service processes and "Make everything as simple as possible, but not
simpler" for semantic Web services?

Received on Wednesday, 14 December 2005 15:48:12 UTC