The general idea is to give as much time as possible to useful discussion. The
presentations are meant to trigger discussions, as well as to support
them with concrete material and to help focus them. Be short, concrete
and focused; give illustrations and examples.
The general scenario for a session is to have presentations, each
followed by a short questions/answers time, and then a general
discussion, where attendees will have the opportunity to discuss
questions raised by the presentations and ask questions to all
presenters together (see guidance for talk duration per session below).
The title of your session should tell you the focus
for each session, to help and thus help you prepare you
presentation. Here below are some suggestions for presenters in the
different sessions/session types:
-
Getting acquainted
- 20 minutes per talk, including short
questions. The objective is to have the different involved
communities introduced to each other, with their rule usage, history,
goals, vocabulary etc, so as to make sure that everybody at the
workshop shares a minimum of common background about other communities
from the beginning
- General Requirements
- 15 minutes per talk, including short
questions. Briefly describe and justify each requirement/family of
requirements; illustrate your requirements with examples; focus on
requirements for exchanging rules; scope different sets of
requirements as precisley as possible (with respect to usage, kind of rules,
whatever is relevant)
- Standards Work
- 15 minutes per talk, including short
questions. Explain the context briefly; tell us what the standard is
about and define its scope; explain the relationship with rule
exchange and interopearbility on the Web, and focus on what your
standard would require from or contribute to the specification of a
rule language for interoperability (if anything); tell us what are
your ideas for the ideal language, from your specific point of view
- Candidate Technologies
- 20 minutes per talk, including short questions. Tell us to why the presented
technology is a candidate, what requirements it fulfills; give us a
feeling for what the technology is, do not go to deep into the
technical details/is about; give us a couple concrete examples of what
you can do and what you cannot do with the technology; do not
bother to compare with other technologies, the discussion will take
care of that :-)
- Use Cases
- 15 minutes per talk, including short questions. Explain the case briefly and as concretely as
possible; focus on the rules exchange aspects and issues, focusing on
the requirements for a language; tell us how you solve the problem
currently, and what are your ideas for the ideal language, from your
specific point of view
Please send us your slides at least an hour before the start of the
session in which you are presenting, so we can have them available on
the shared presentation machine. (We prefer people
use this machine, to save a little setup time.) Sending them the day
before is good, too! If you have networking problems, Said Tabet will
have a USB storage device for transferring data. HTML and PDF slides
are welcome; Powerpoint slides are acceptable, but they may lose
quality in being converted to an open format for the workshop record.
Send presentations and questions to team-rule-language-workshop-chairs@w3.org
Like the accepted position papers, slides published on the public
Web pages of the workshop. Submitting your slides comprises a default
recognition of these terms for publication.
Christian de Sainte Maria, with
Sandro Hawke
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