- From: Charles White <Charles.White@networkinference.com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:31:29 +0100
- To: "Jim Hendler" <hendler@cs.umd.edu>, "Sean Bechhofer" <seanb@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Cc: "webont" <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
All, I just sent a message to Chris and Jim about a combined test. Here is one we have put together at Network Inference, and that we can handle with our engine. <rdf:RDF xmlns:my="http://eu.org/owl#" xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#" xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#" xml:base="http://eu.org/owl" > <owl:Class rdf:ID="EuropeanCountry" /> <owl:Class rdf:ID="Person" /> <owl:Class rdf:ID="EUCountry"> <owl:oneOf rdf:parseType="Collection"> <my:EuropeanCountry rdf:ID="UK"/> <my:EuropeanCountry rdf:ID="BE"/> <my:EuropeanCountry rdf:ID="ES"/> <my:EuropeanCountry rdf:ID="FR"/> <my:EuropeanCountry rdf:ID="NL"/> <my:EuropeanCountry rdf:ID="PT"/> </owl:oneOf> </owl:Class> <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="hasEuroMP" > <rdfs:domain rdf:resource="#EUCountry"/> </owl:ObjectProperty> <owl:ObjectProperty rdf:ID="isEuroMPFrom" > <owl:inverseOf rdf:resource="#hasEuroMP"/> </owl:ObjectProperty> <owl:Class rdf:ID="EuroMP"> <owl:equivalentClass> <owl:Restriction> <owl:onProperty rdf:resource="#isEuroMPFrom" /> <owl:someValuesFrom rdf:resource="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#Thing" /> </owl:Restriction> </owl:equivalentClass> </owl:Class> <my:Person rdf:ID="Kinnock" /> <my:EuropeanCountry rdf:about="#UK"> <my:hasEuroMP rdf:resource="#Kinnock" /> </my:EuropeanCountry> </rdf:RDF> <!--querying for all subconcepts of EuroMP should return "Kinnock" --> > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Hendler [mailto:hendler@cs.umd.edu] > Sent: 11 June 2003 05:20 > To: Sean Bechhofer > Cc: webont > Subject: Re: Need a test -- inverse and oneOf > > > > That would serve my needs. Jeremy.could we turn this into a proposed > incocnsistency test? > > At 1:14 PM +0100 6/11/03, Sean Bechhofer wrote: > >On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Jim Hendler wrote: > > > >> > >> To be able to close some of our LC comments, there must > be a test in > >> our test suite that includes both inverse and oneOf. In > an earlier > >> message I outlined a simple one, but perhaps someone in the WG can > >> come up with a better one. It is my opinion that without > such a test > >> we will have trouble convincing some people that OWL DL is > >> implementable (cf the comments from Jena and HP). Can we > please get > >> such a test at least proposed?? > >> thanks > >> JH > > > >How about the following? > > > >Ontology( > > > > Class(a:NiceCorporation partial > > restriction(a:employs allValuesFrom a:NiceGuy) > > restriction(a:employs someValuesFrom oneOf(a:tom a:dick))) > > > > Class(a:NiceGuy) > > > > ObjectProperty(a:employedBy > > inverseOf(a:employs)) > > ObjectProperty(a:employs) > > > > Individual(a:dick > > type(complementOf(a:NiceGuy))) > > > > Individual(a:niceCorp > > type(a:NiceCorporation)) > > > > Individual(a:tom > > type(restriction(a:employedBy allValuesFrom > >complementOf(a:NiceCorporation)))) > > > >) > > > >The interaction of the oneof and the assertion that dick > isn't a Nice Guy > >allows us to conclude that niceCorp must employ tom. But > then we know that > >anything that employs tom cannot be a NiceCorporation (due to the > >inverse), so we get an inconsistency. > > > >It's pretty trivial, but I think you do need both one-of and > inverse to be > >able to state it. > > > > Sean > > > > > >-- > >Sean Bechhofer > >seanb@cs.man.ac.uk > >http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~seanb > > -- > 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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