Re: The Open world assumption shoe does not always fit - was: RE: [ontolog-forum] Fwd: Ontolog invited speaker session - Dr. Mark Greaves on the Halo Project - Thu 2008.06.19

2008-06-27 Thread Xiaoshu Wang
Pat Hayes wrote: At 6:31 PM -0400 6/26/08, Ogbuji, Chimezie wrote: Hey, Pat. Comments below > I would disagree about this case being the exception. >Negation as failure can be validly used to infer from a >failure if the data is controlled (which is especially the >case with

SPARQL endpoints

2008-06-27 Thread Helena Deus
Dear all, Does anyone know about an official w3c SPARQL endpoint and validator? I came across this list: http://esw.w3.org/topic/SparqlEndpoints and this one from the Spanish w3c website - http://www.w3c.es/Prensa/sparql/ But most of the endpoints in the first list seem to be down or not accep

Minutes HCLSIG call June 26

2008-06-27 Thread M. Scott Marshall
You will find the minutes for yesterday's call here: http://www.w3.org/2008/06/26-hcls-minutes.html The details of our next call in two weeks will be posted to the wiki: http://esw.w3.org/topic/HCLSIG -Scott P.S. The (Zakim?) setting for the HCLS Thursday calls that limited the number of call

Re: [ontolog-forum] The Open world assumption shoe does not always fit - was: RE: Fwd: Ontolog invited speaker session - Dr. Mark Greaves on the Halo Project - Thu 2008.06.19

2008-06-27 Thread John F. Sowa
I just wanted to add some comments that I forgot to make in my previous note in this thread. Following is what I did say: There are also many cases where a metalevel reasoner can make orders of magnitude *improvement* in performance at the object level. Among them are various kinds

Re: [ontolog-forum] The Open world assumption shoe does not always fit - was: RE: Fwd: Ontolog invited speaker session - Dr. Mark Greaves on the Halo Project - Thu 2008.06.19

2008-06-27 Thread Toby Considine
Date had it right. NULL is neither true nor false. The most fundamental problem of constructing any kind of knowledge in a space as large as the internet is heterogeneity. The most fundamental strength when working with heterogeneity is knowing what you don't know. If I remember anything from

Re: The Open world assumption shoe does not always fit - was: RE: [ontolog-forum] Fwd: Ontolog invited speaker session - Dr. Mark Greaves on the Halo Project - Thu 2008.06.19

2008-06-27 Thread John F. Sowa
Adrian and Toby, Some comments: TC> Date had it right. NULL is neither true nor false. Yes, and he made some recommendations that can be applied to any logic-based notation. One of them is to introduce special constants or relations to handle various kinds of nonmonotonic issues, and then wr

Re: [ontolog-forum] The Open world assumption shoe does not always fit - was: RE: Fwd: Ontolog invited speaker session - Dr. Mark Greaves on the Halo Project - Thu 2008.06.19

2008-06-27 Thread Pat Hayes
At 10:57 AM -0400 6/27/08, Toby Considine wrote: As a new-comer in the semantic space, what is CL, where should I start to read on it. Sorry. Common Logic (CL) is a recent ISO standard http://www.iso.org/iso/iso_catalogue/catalogue_tc/catalogue_detail.htm?csnumber=39175 which defines a

Re: [ontolog-forum] The Open world assumption shoe does not always fit - was: RE: Fwd: Ontolog invited speaker session - Dr. Mark Greaves on the Halo Project - Thu 2008.06.19

2008-06-27 Thread Pat Hayes
s, then answers from your deductions can be sentences like "Assuming that we have all the relevant data, as of 20080627, Pat does not work for IBM". Then, there's no way for the English documentation to get separated from the logic, because authors and users deal only with the

Re: The Open world assumption shoe does not always fit - was: RE: [ontolog-forum] Fwd: Ontolog invited speaker session - Dr. Mark Greaves on the Halo Project - Thu 2008.06.19

2008-06-27 Thread Adrian Walker
predicates [1], and hide the predicates themselves, then answers from your deductions can be sentences like *"Assuming that we have all the relevant data, as of 20080627, Pat does not work for IBM". * Then, there's no way for the English documentation to get separated from the