From: Benjamin Grosof ([email protected])
Date: 04/04/03
Hi fellow DAML'ers,
The Rules Breakout preliminary agenda is below (and also attached as
plaintext file for convenience).
Comments and suggestions are welcome!
-- E.g., additional topics, or your news.
Agenda for Rules Breakout at DAML PI Workshop 4/9/03 1300-1600 EDT
(preliminary, draft of 4/4/03)
led by Benjamin Grosof <[email protected]>
with assistance from Mike Dean
o top-level goals for the Breakout:
- bring folks up to speed generally on latest relevant progress and news,
e.g., there's lots on relationships to RDF, OWL, Query, W3C
- share news generally from folks -- e.g., what tools using / making
- discuss technical issues, e.g., relationships to RDF, OWL, Query, Services
- set some near-term focus and plans for DAML Rules effort
o focus areas:
- requirements, use cases, and language features
- relationship to RDF, OWL, Query
- relationship to Services and security
o overall time allocation: 1/3 presentation, 2/3 discussion
o 1300-1330 Overall UPDATE on DAML Rules and RuleML
- 1300-1320 overview presentation
. Description Logic Programs update; SweetOnto tool
. RuleML Working Note draft; language features
. Rules use cases draft in Joint Committee
. relationship to Query in RDF, and to DQL
- survey draft
- use cases drafts
. news, incl. W3C Plenary, RuleML tools
. upcoming ISWC Rules Workshop
. overview of topics and goals for breakout
- 1320-1330 discussion
. all share their news
. how DAML'ers are using rules now
. agenda refinement
o 1330-1500 RuleML in relation to RDF and OWL and Query
- 1330-1400 background presentation
. *proposed ABSTRACT SYNTAX for RuleML: approach, examples
- encoding RuleML syntax in RDF or OWL
- unorderedness in RDF/OWL vs. orderedness in XML-S, commercial systems
- object-oriented argument collections in RuleML
. other topics:
- rules on top of ontologies, e.g., in SweetDeal
- Description Logic Programs
- RDF triples as facts in rules
- relationship to RDF Query Systems and to DQL
- querying remote systems via procedural attachments
- 1400-1430 discussion
. mixing of RuleML encoded in RDF/OWL with use by rules of OWL
ontologies
. Rules expressive features: which and where are useful
. scenarios of usage of rules together with RDF Query, DQL
- 1430-1440 BREAK
- 1440-1500 discussion, continued
o 1500-1530 Rules and Services
- 1500-1510 background presentation
. rule-based semantic web services: concepts, techniques, and scenarios
. business processes as starting point; contracts, exception handling
. *PROCEDURAL ATTACHMENTS: built-ins, situated logic programs,
Event-Condition-Action (ECA), OPS5/Jess
- 1510-1530 discussion
. applications of rules in services and security
o 1530-1600 Setting Focus and PLANS
- discussion
. language features, tools, scenarios
________________________________________________________________________________________________
Prof. Benjamin Grosof
Web Technologies for E-Commerce, Business Policies, E-Contracting, Rules,
XML, Agents, Semantic Web Services
MIT Sloan School of Management, Information Technology group
http://ebusiness.mit.edu/bgrosof or http://www.mit.edu/~bgrosof
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : 04/04/03 EST