- From: Libby Miller <Libby.Miller@bristol.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:52:25 +0100 (BST)
- To: Ian Horrocks <horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk>
- cc: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>, webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
Ian, could you expand on that a little? I'm not sure I get it. Jim: Dan Brickley has also provided some motivating examples if it would help. I also did a paper for XMLEurope which discussed some possible uses of this property: http://ilrt.org/discovery/2002/03/skical-daml/ Libby On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Ian Horrocks wrote: > > On May 29, Jim Hendler writes: > > > > Issue 3.4 - daml:UnambiguousProperty > > > > Proposal - CLOSE THIS ISSUE > > > > The issue here was that the requirements document didn't motivate > > this language feature. However, no one has advocated its removal and > > there does seem to be consensus it is a desirable feature. It is > > provided for in DAML+OIL and will be provided in OWL. > > > This issue may be tied to the INVERSE issue. UnambiguousProperty > really means functionality w.r.t. the inverse property. If we no > longer support inverse, then it seems a little strange to be able to > assert its functionality. > > Ian > > > > > > > -- > > 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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