Hi fellow DAML'ers, The Rules Breakout preliminary agenda is below. 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 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