RE: question: datatype reasoning?

>
>  Jeremy-
>   with due respect, I'm still not sure from your answer what the 
> answer to my question is

No I didn't answer, I was just trying to clarify what a complete reasoner 
would do. The statements X DL-entails Y are true whether or not we expect an 
OWL implementation to be able to achieve them. I perhaps should have phrased 
them as consistency tests, since we agreed to specify an OWL Consistency 
Checker.

e.g.


><p> range xsd:negativeInteger
><p> range xsd:byte
><i> rdf:type
>   restriction(p, minCardinality=128 )

is consistent, but isn't if you increase the cardinality to 129.

I suspect the Lite consistency checks with XSD datatypes could plausibly be 
hard coded. If I implemented any of the rest I would certainly consider 
whether there was a research paper to write as well. I'm not an expert in 
DL+datatypes, but I suspect I am well-versed in XSD.

Jeremy

Received on Friday, 24 January 2003 13:24:21 UTC