Re: SWRL levels

From: Ian Horrocks (horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: 11/16/05

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    On 15 Nov 2005, at 19:26, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
    
    > I worry that Tim's view is tending towards a Tower of Babel, i.e., 
    > different
    > languages that *do not* work together because they make different 
    > underlying
    > assumptions.
    
    I agree - and my worries were not at all relieved by talk of 
    "interlocking" languages, whatever that means.
    
    Ian
    
    
    >
    > peter
    >
    >
    >
    > From: "Mike Dean" <mdean@bbn.com>
    > Subject: SWRL levels
    > Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:58:02 -0500
    >
    >> It occurred to me that the "two towers" (ontologies and rules) may 
    >> share
    >> many floors and that many users may prefer to stay within the common 
    >> base
    >> (for fear of heights or other reasons).  I think this is the focus of 
    >> [1]
    >> from Tim's ISWC2005 keynote.
    >>
    >> To help with this, I think it may be useful to identify additional 
    >> levels of
    >> SWRL and offer the following starting definitions:
    >>
    >> SWRL RDF
    >>
    >>   individualPropertyAtom and datavaluedPropertyAtom (property is just
    >>   rdf:Property), builtinAtom
    >>
    >> SWRL RDFS
    >>
    >>   classAtom (named classes only), datarangeAtom, 
    >> individualPropertyAtom,
    >>   datavaluedPropertyAtom, builtinAtom
    >>
    >> SWRL DLP
    >>
    >>   current SWRL Member Submission restricted to DLP limitations
    >>
    >> SWRL Lite
    >>
    >>   current SWRL Member Submission restricted to OWL Lite limitations
    >>
    >> SWRL DL
    >>
    >>   current SWRL Member Submission (OWL DL semantics)
    >>
    >> SWRL Full
    >>
    >>   current SWRL Member Submission with OWL Full semantics
    >>
    >> SWRL FOL
    >>
    >>   current SWRL FOL Member Submission
    >>
    >> SWRL RDF, SWRL RDFS, and SWRL DLP are in the common base.
    >>
    >> Thoughts?
    >>
    >> 	Mike
    >>
    >> [1] http://www.w3.org/2005/Talks/1110-iswc-tbl/#[12]
    


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