- From: Christopher Welty <welty@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 17:06:13 -0500
- To: interested parties <interested_parties@us.ibm.com>
- Cc: Stephen Fickas <fickas@cs.uoregon.edu>, "Robert J. Hall" <hall@research.att.com>
All, At http://www.cs.uoregon.edu/~fickas/REOS/ you will find information on a workshop to be held at the International Conference on Software Engineering that will focus on problems relating to Requirements Engineering in Open Systems, May 3-4 in Portland, Oregon. This is an area in which KR has played a role in the past,and should once again play a role. Many people agree in principle that requirements engineering should ultimately be based on something like ontology development and that the process should involve automated reasoning, however the community is very heavily made up of software engineers who, like all researchers, have a background and agenda that takes research focus away from those areas. In addition, orienting this problem towards open systems clearly requires STANDARD ways to exchange this kind of information on the web, and thus is another potential RDF or OWL application. I'd like to try to stir up some activity in the KR and Semantic Web communities on this problem. Take a look at the page and let me know if you are interested (or just submit a paper or position statement). -Chris Dr. Christopher A. Welty, Knowledge Structures Group IBM Watson Research Center, 19 Skyline Dr. Hawthorne, NY 10532 USA Voice: +1 914.784.7055, IBM T/L: 863.7055 Fax: +1 914.784.6078, Email: welty@us.ibm.com
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