- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 14:33:49 -0500
- To: tim finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
>pat hayes wrote: > > Can you (or anyone) say why the ability to quote is considered a > > practical necessity? From where I am standing it seems an arcane and > > exotic ability, not one that is of central practical > > importance. What is the practical utility of being able to refer >to a predicate, > > rather than use it? > >We're working on models for representing and reasoning about security, >authorization, delegation etc and find a need to represent speech >acts such as one agent's assertion that it delegates a permission to >another agent. An agent's obligations and permissions >can be determined by reasoning from the representation of the security >policy together with a set of validly signed public speech acts. >Our approach is >to try to use DAML to represent the FIPA communicative acts and associated >parameters as well as a FIPA compliant content language. OK, but what utility is quotation in describing speech acts? Pat --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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