Re: About using distances or probabilities

David Allsopp wrote:

> This would presumably mean that in order to do any useful querying of
> your model, the query engine would have to be schema-aware, to work out
> that all your various properties are in fact instances of 'believes'.

I don't see this as a problem.

 :pal20/30  :probability "20"; :inverseProbability "30"; a :believes.

> How would you write
>
>     :Computer :pal20/30  :Printer.
>     :pal20/30  :probability "20"; :inverseProbability "30"; a :Property.
>
> in XML M&S syntax, anyway? Something like:
>
>  <rdf:Property ID="pal2030">
>         <a:probability>20</a:probability>
>         <a:inverseProbability>30</a:inverseProbability>
>  </rdf:Property>
>
> <a:Computer ID="MyPC"/>
> <a:Printer ID="MyPrinter"/>
>
> <Description about="MyPC">
>    <pal2030 resource="MyPrinter"/>
> </Description>

Yes.

Seth

Received on Friday, 9 February 2001 16:30:14 UTC