Re: proposal for working on the ontology language from Tim Finin on 2001-12-11 (www-webont-wg@w3.org from December 2001)

From: Tim Finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 12:39:33 -0500
To: "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@research.bell-labs.com>
CC: www-webont-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <3C1644D5.9C936CC7@cs.umbc.edu>

"Peter F. Patel-Schneider" wrote:
>  I am concerned that the group is not working on the ontology language
>  itself.  There are a number of changes that need to be done to DAML+OIL,
>  largely because of changes that have happened since DAML+OIL was designed.
>  ...

Are adding capabilities to the language, such as the ability
to express rules, on our radar screen?  Some of the use cases
that I am interested (e.g., representing security policies)
will eventually require encoding some rules.

Received on Tuesday, 11 December 2001 12:37:56 UTC