Re: DAML+OIL Expressivity Question

From: Jeff Heflin ([email protected])
Date: 11/07/01


Ian,

Thanks for the ingenious suggestion. However, wouldn't you also have to
express restrictions that the cardinality of bestFriend and spouse are
1? Otherwise, people with a best friend but no spouse, or vice versa
would be included in the class you defined.

Jeff

Ian Horrocks wrote:
> 
> On November 7, Jeff Heflin writes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I recently had someone ask me if they could represent a particular kind
> > of knowledge in DAML+OIL, and I wasn't able to give them a definite
> > response. I was hoping one of our DL gurus could help. I was asked if it
> > was possible to define the class of all people who's best friend is
> > their spouse, where bestFriend and spouse are properties. I think this
> > means they would need a restriction that could restrict two properties
> > to have the same value. I don't believe we can do this in DAML+OIL, but
> > wanted to check. Thanks!
> 
> As you rightly suspect, there isn't a general way to restrict two
> properties to have the same value. In cases like this, it may be
> possible to use the property hierarchy to achieve the desired result
> by declaring both bestFriend and spouse to be subProperties of a
> property called, say, bestFriendORspouse, and then asserting the class
> as equivalent to a maxCardinality restriction of 1 on
> bestFriendORspouse.
> 
> Ian
> 
> >
> > Jeff


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