- From: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:46:27 -0400
- To: ewallace@cme.nist.gov, www-webont-wg@w3.org
At 1:31 PM -0400 7/18/03, ewallace@cme.nist.gov wrote: >Jim Hendler's proposed response to Ken Laskey included the following: >>> >>> While OWL in its present form does not intrinsically support such >>> probablistic or conditional associations useful in real semantic queries, >>> application-specific semantics could be encoded in OWL to support such >>> functionality. >>> </comment> >> >>Actually, the use case was talking about defeasible inheritance >>reasoning, not probability. Although probability can be clearly of use >>in some use cases, the working group did not consider it an important >>requirement, although support for probabilistic information is implied >>by Requirement R12. Attaching Information to Statements. However, >>you are right that the "typically" is misleading here, and therefore >>we will change this to read >>"...a `Late Georgian chest of drawers', in the absence of other >>information, would be assumed to be `made of mahogany.' This >>knowledge ... " >>which we agree will be less misleading. > >It may be too late to add, but I thought that Jeff had agreed to >specifically add mention of defeasible inheritance reasoning in the >"Default property value" objective in the Requirements document. Is there >a problem with making this change? > >-Evan I think Jeff should make this change, and that he had agreed to do so, so I assume it is happening -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 *** 240-277-3388 (Cell) http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler *** NOTE CHANGED CELL NUMBER ***
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