- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 13:42:55 -0400
- To: Ian Horrocks <horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: "Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, "webont" <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
At 4:51 PM +0100 7/19/02, Ian Horrocks wrote: >On July 18, Jim Hendler writes: snip > >My stance all along is that we should design OWL so that it has >certain desirable computational properties, in particular that it is >POSSIBLE to implement sound and complete (and terminating) >reasoners. If we don't care about the computational properties of the >language, then it is hard to see why we are bothering to restrict >ourselves to such a relatively clumsy and inexpressive language - why >not go straight to full FOL (I can hear Pat saying "amen to that"), or >something even more expressive? snip Ian - I owe you an apology - I was frustrated over some of the things in our WG that just seemed to be going round and round, and I unloaded on you VERY unfairly. You have been one of the more involved people in the WG, you have consistently provided important information, you have a principled approach to your arguments, and you've shown a willingness to "live with" some things that you don't particularly like. If we all would work as hard on this as you do, and would be as careful in our work, then the WG would be even more productive than it is. I apologize to you for my remarks, and to the whole WG for wasting their time Sincerely, Jim H -- Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-731-3822 (Cell) http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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