CMU's ROWL (Rule Language in OWL and Transformation Engine for JESS)

We've been following the ongoing discussion about OWL Rules/SWRL. As a 
contribution to the discussion, we thought we would make our own work in 
this area available to others. This includes an OWL ontology to specify 
rules and a stylesheet to transform the rules into CLIPS format. Rules can 
be expressed as Horn clauses.

We found this rule ontology to be expressive enough to support a broad 
range of user preferences (including complex privacy/confidentiality 
preferences) in the context of our pervasive computing work (MyCampus 
project).
The syntax also has the merit to be fairly concise.You can access the 
ontology and stylesheets at 
<http://mycampus.sadehlab.cs.cmu.edu/public_pages/ROWL/ROWL.html> along 
with some documentation.

Comments are welcome.

Norman Sadeh & Fabien Gandon



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Prof. Norman M. Sadeh
Director, Mobile Commerce Lab.
Director, e-Supply Chain Management Lab.
eCommerce Institute - Smith Hall 231A
ISRI - School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
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