- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 20:06:35 -0400
- To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Cc: webont <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
> >BTW, readers who are, er, semantically challenged might want to look >at section 7 first. > thanks for that, although I must say I liked section 9 the best. My own metaphor has to do with medications (those of us with aging parents know this conundrum well) - some people take anything that various doctors give them, hoping the doctors are making sure everything is okay (OWL/RDF?). Some people refuse to take anything that might interact with anything else they might ever take - so they refuse to take many medications that could help (but are guaranteed to avoid drug interactions -- fast Owl w OWLAS only), the third group look at what the doctors prescribe and run the interactions through some web site somewhere to check there are no problems - constant vigilance and effort (Owl/rdf in rdf context). The interesting thing is that the first and third have the highest probability of recovery, but the first also has the highest chance of adverse interactions. hmm, that 3rd option sounds better all the time... -JH -- 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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