IRC log of rif on 2005-12-08

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zakim, who is here?
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SW_RIF()11:00AM has not yet started, sandro
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On IRC I see jos, Harold, sandro, csma, ChrisW, Jing, Hirtle, hak, RRSAgent, Zakim
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Scribe: Jos de Bruijn
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ScribeNick: jos
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Meeting: first RIF f2f
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Chair: Christian
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Topic: run through of agenda
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Christian: we need scribes!
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+??P3
17:18:49 [jos]
Bijan: not all inputs in the charter are presented in the background
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Christian: all background info will be included in the topics
17:19:29 [sandro]
Zakim, ??P3 is JeremyC
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+JeremyC; got it
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+ +1.650.696.aaaa
17:20:02 [jos]
Topic: round of introductions
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Hi, just heard from hotel on Zakim
17:21:17 [ericP]
zakim, who is here?
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On the phone I see JeremyC, +1.650.696.aaaa
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On IRC I see jeremy, pfps, aharth, mdean, ericP, phitzler, jos, giorgos, der, Elisa, Harold, sandro, ChrisW, Jing, Hirtle, hak, RRSAgent, Zakim
17:22:17 [ChrisW]
jeremyC, can you hear anything>
17:22:25 [jeremy]
hearing very well thankyou
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+ +1.604.930.aabb
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17:28:33 [bijan]
On paper
17:29:42 [bijan]
I'm afraid that I cannot find an electronic copy of the list
17:29:55 [sandro]
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg_f2f_1_participants.html
17:29:57 [ChrisW]
zakim, who is on the phone
17:29:57 [Zakim]
I don't understand 'who is on the phone', ChrisW
17:30:00 [ChrisW]
zakim, who is on the phone?
17:30:00 [Zakim]
On the phone I see JeremyC, +1.650.696.aaaa, +1.604.930.aabb
17:30:25 [bijan]
Well, that's a testimony to my inability to find that list
17:30:33 [ChrisW]
zakim, aabb is meeting_room
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+meeting_room; got it
17:31:10 [jos]
Christian: observers will not be at every meeting; many observers are from OMG; other observers will become
17:31:22 [jos]
.. members after going through the red tape in their organization
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-JeremyC
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+1 617 761 6200 conf code RIFWG
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+??P1
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Topic: W3C process 101, roles and duties in a WG
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+Giorgos_Stamou
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Sandro: much of the content overlaps with DanC's presentation in the workshop in Washington in April
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zakim, loquaciate me
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I don't understand 'loquaciate me', bijan
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Current slides: http://www.w3.org/2005/12/rif/process101.html
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We are currently on slide 7
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Slide 13
17:47:12 [sandro]
sandro's slides (again): http://www.w3.org/2005/12/rif/process101.html
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sandro's slides (again again): http://www.w3.org/2005/12/rif/process101.html
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Slide 14
17:55:45 [bijan]
I note that this is not a process based constraint on the working group
17:56:57 [bijan]
Even our charter doesn't strictly bound us, since we only need to publish on use case "of interest to the working group". This could be almost none.
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Slide 16
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Slide 18
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slide 7
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ChrisW: roles and responsibilities in the WG
18:00:07 [jos]
.. many differences between how W3C and other standards bodies do things
18:00:22 [jos]
.. role: director of W3C: TimBL
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... role: WG chairs: Christian and ChrisW
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... tale credit for all the work
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... role: staff contact: Sandro
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... coordinates technical support
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... role: primary and alternate participants
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... any number of people from each organization can join the WG
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... each orgnization nominated one primary member
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... when there is a vote, each organization has one vote
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... the primary is responsible for representing the position of the organization and casting the vote
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... role: observers
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... role of observers not clear to ChrisW
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... members are expected to participate in weekly telecons
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... members are expected to review the documents produced by the WG
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... members are expected to contribute to the documents
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... role: editor
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... already editors required for use cases & requirements document and the issues list
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... issues list very important; maintaining is a time-consuming task
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... having a large number of editors on a draft doesn't work
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... there will be a limit of two editors by default
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... role: contributor/author
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... contributors have recognition of efforts w/o being an editor
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... drafts are maintained in the W3C CVS
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... thus, editors need to be willing to use CVS
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s/tale/take
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... role: scribe
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... every telecon and f2f is scribed
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... everyone is expected to scribe at some point in time
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... role: invited expert
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... do not represent W3C member organizations
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... Jeff Pan, Ben Grosof and Michael Kifer are invited experts
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... role: task force
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But Jeff and Ben are both temporary measures.
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... task force is small subgroup of WG
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... at discretion of chairs
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(Aberdeen is joining, and MIT as a W3C host is complicated.)
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... liaison activities
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... there will be liaison positions
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... will be responsible for representing RIF WG in other activity
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... there will be coordination with other W3C WGs
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... for such things as document reviews, requested expertise
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-meeting_room
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zakim, who is here?
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On the phone I see +1.650.696.aaaa, jeremy (muted), Giorgos_Stamou
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On IRC I see edbark, Donald, Allen, jeremy, Deborah, csma, holger, msintek, mkroetzsch, bijan, vassilis, pfps, aharth, mdean, ericP, phitzler, jos, giorgos, der, Elisa, Harold,
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... sandro, ChrisW, Jing, Hirtle, hak, RRSAgent, Zakim
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Scribe: Holger Lausen
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ScribeNick: holger
18:48:02 [sandro]
zakim, who is on the phone?
18:48:02 [Zakim]
On the phone I see +1.650.696.aaaa, jeremy (muted), Giorgos_Stamou
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jeremy, girogos, can you hear?
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+??P0
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Topic: Charter Over view
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Slides: http://www.w3.org/2005/12/rif/charter-overview.html
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Slide 2
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I can hear
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zakim, aaaa is Meeting_Room
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+Meeting_Room; got it
18:49:07 [holger]
Sandro: everyone should have read the charter by now
18:49:33 [sandro]
zakim, who is on the phone?
18:49:33 [Zakim]
On the phone I see Meeting_Room, jeremy (muted), Giorgos_Stamou, jeremy.a
18:49:47 [sandro]
jeremy? you on two lines?
18:50:20 [holger]
... deliberables should be understood by all
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Slide 3
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... charter is sort of project plan
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-jeremy
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... about the history of the layercake
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... rules have been come more important and priminent in that layer cake
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... 2 years ago sandro drafted a charter for a *semantic* rule working group
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... but was not sucessfull, but now ILOG approached W3C for a more broad rule effort
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slide 6
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Slide 7
18:58:35 [holger]
... 2 phase design was result of to get good scope and fast results
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Slide 8
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... phase 2 should be kept in mind but not worry us for now
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... phase 2 may start after candidate recommendation
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... about deadlines: if no results are shown w3c may shut down working group
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... however with good reason extension might negotiated
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bijan: are there examples for w3c groups that come to recommendation in 10 month?
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Sandro: I am not aware and don't follow other shedules
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... a problem with some working groups is that during livetime they extend feature list
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... should not occur to us since we have 2 phases
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bijan: one possability but still very challenging
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benjamin: have the same point timeline is very challenging
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... should use use cases for priotorizing
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dave: should stick to 2 phase approach
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... and to what is defined in charter
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Sandro: phase 1 is to set the ground
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benjamin: however priorities of phase 2 requirements might impact phase 1
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ChrisW: agrees with Benjamin part of phase 1 is to prioratize what is in phase 2
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... decission what is to be in phase 2 must be done before phase 2 starts
19:10:01 [bijan]
This seems to be proposing to fix the problem with the possible unrealisticness of the schedule by adding *more* and more *contentious* work in phase I.
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^CHrisW^csma^
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... need to agree that phase1 is not really usefull (wrt. features) but sets the ground with architecture and extension mechanism.
19:10:45 [bijan]
Ah, csma puts a stake in the ground against the extra work
19:10:53 [ChrisW-alt]
THe point: part of Phase 1 is defining Phase 2
19:11:10 [jeremy]
q+ to argue for less
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...this will happen along the way, not just at the end
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ugo: w3c process might be slow due to consensus need
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+meeting_room.a
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... what is the chairs approach to that?
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Sandro: can you be more sepcific
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ugo: are you in favour of voting mechanism or are you more in favour of the w3c consensus approach?
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ChrisW: most of time only 2 conflicting opinions, will try to reach consensus
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however votes are the last method to resolve conflicts
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... in phase 1 I do not expect this necessary
19:14:21 [ChrisW-alt]
^ChrisW^csma^
19:14:55 [bijan]
W3C working groups have "formal votes" and they need not *resolve* issues. Members are allowed to make a formal objection which carry *great weight* against moving to, e.g., LC or CR or REc
19:15:02 [holger]
sandro: in phase 2 2 solutions might be the outcome
19:16:21 [ChrisW-alt]
zakim, meeting_room.a is hassan
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+hassan; got it
19:16:39 [bijan]
zakim, queue?
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I see jeremy on the speaker queue
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pascal: necessary to distinct phase1 and phase2 issues. However some phase2 features might be only possible with specific decission in phase 1.
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david: own experience with eclipse environment, extensions are driven by the people who extend
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... however designer of the core might not always be aware of the extension possabilities
19:18:28 [ChrisW-alt]
zakim, ack jeremy
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jeremy, you wanted to argue for less
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I see no one on the speaker queue
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jermey: most people seem to be motivated by phase 2
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help
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+1 to jermey
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... phase 2 should allow revisit phase 1
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csma: use cases are for phase 2
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... phase 1 only shall provide the basis of the use cases and *not* solve them
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Slide 9
19:22:33 [ChrisW-alt]
The Charter: http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/charter
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sandro: glossary not mentioned in charter, but should be at least internal glossary
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Slide 10
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he said "this is normative, and this is ..."
19:24:37 [bijan]
Tech spec, OWL compat and thats it
19:24:42 [jeremy]
OK ta
19:24:53 [bijan]
Use cases and Requer adn TEst cases "have flexibilty
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... real use case for the details
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See: http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/charter#deliverables
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... test cases have to prooved to be useful
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Slide 11
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csma: tomorrow slot about concrete role of usecase and testcases
19:26:30 [ChrisW-alt]
correction: tomorrow we will discuss use cases
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...not test cases (at least as described on the agenda)
19:26:53 [bijan]
I would like to note that the RDF and OWL tests were *not* designed as confromance tests though the are sometimes used that way
19:26:54 [jeremy]
Not conformance tests !!! (my opinion)
19:26:59 [bijan]
:)
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sandro: personal note on testcases good to check conformance
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... did this with OWL test cases.
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bijan: makes point that test suites are not conformence tests
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sandro: yes. They can however clarify
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csma: word conformence will be removed
19:29:36 [ChrisW-alt]
jeremy, you must speak loudly, we can barely hear you
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sandro: glossary are about 30 sec. answers
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slide 13
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slide 15
19:31:54 [holger]
... about OWL: anyone wants to discuss it now?
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... reads charter word by word
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csma: stresses "do not reinvent" if something can be done in OWL it should not be dublicated
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Slide 14
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bijan: is it part of charter to have mapping of n-ary predicates to rdf?
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csma: no he did not say that
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bijan: should not close down the mapping of n-ary to triples, there are multiple ways.
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csma: up to the WG
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jon: reads out charter section shown on slite
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csma: "starting point" does not say too much
19:39:10 [jp]
from the charter: In order to allow interoperability with RDF and object-oriented systems, the syntax must support named arguments (also called "role" or "slot" names), allowing n-ary facts, rules, and queries to be provided through property/value interfaces.
19:39:29 [jp]
2.2.4
19:40:00 [holger]
dieter: need to address rdf anyway
19:40:21 [jeremy]
q+ to make process point: chair interprets charter
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csma: the question is if the charter prescribes already a certain way of the mapping
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... interprets that it does not
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ack
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... suggest that there is no preimposed way to do the mapping
19:43:06 [holger]
jeremy: chairs are supposed to interpret the charter?
19:43:22 [holger]
ChrisW: not clear to me what is discussed.
19:43:28 [holger]
... lets move on
19:44:05 [holger]
sandro: compatibility with PRR
19:44:31 [bijan]
To address the other co-chairs puzzlement about the discussion, while no one objected to the point that we must deal with rdf and with nary predicates, the question was whether the *specific method* of encoding nary predicates in RDF was a charter derived constraint, or just one possible approach
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Slide 16
19:45:27 [bijan]
slide 17
19:45:31 [bijan]
All done
19:46:00 [holger]
csma: asks if there is more discussion on charter
19:46:50 [holger]
benjamin: have a process question - what is the process on how to decide the shedule to be extended?
19:47:59 [holger]
csma: we will achieve the deadline
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... (said in my role of project manager)
19:49:28 [holger]
csma: working group is about "rule interchange format" and not "rule language for the web"
19:49:34 [holger]
... any bad fealings?
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... someone advertising WRL (points to dieter)
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bijan: I do not understand the difference.
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csma: question is: do we want a vendor neutral xml format for interchange? Or do we want a language that is directly executed by different engines?
19:51:50 [jeremy]
q+ to ask about semantics
19:52:04 [holger]
peter: I view both to be exactly the same
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jeremy: disagrees and sees both as different things
19:53:17 [bijan]
I would like to point out that we should avoid the "Semantic Web" part of the analogy
19:53:28 [holger]
... just identifying the space we are working in.
19:53:44 [bijan]
I.e., Peter just meant, I think, that developing a Rule Interchange Language requires developing a Rule Language
19:54:08 [bijan]
s/Rule Interchange Language/Rule Interchange Format/
19:54:19 [holger]
... to exchange rules in a common format and not to design a new language
19:54:43 [jeremy]
wasn't me speaking above
19:54:58 [bijan]
Was it...hassan?
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who was it?
19:55:47 [giorgos]
not me
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q-
19:55:54 [hak]
It was me - Hassan Ait-Kaci
19:57:33 [holger]
Edd: issue is weather the interpretations are well enough defined such that the interachange and the extension do not modify the interpretation
19:58:29 [holger]
dieter: Should not include all features but apply the 80/20 rule to include 20% feature to achieve 80%
19:59:49 [jeremy]
q+ to illustrate raising hand on IRC
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q-
20:00:02 [bijan]
well done
20:00:38 [holger]
joshua: the tricky part is not to design some particular features, but to identify overlaps and concrete interpretations and to characterize the difference between concrete rule language
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csma: closes session
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-hassan
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s/Edd/Ed
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-jeremy.a
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quit
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-Giorgos_Stamou
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+Sandro
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-Sandro
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+??P3
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21:03:05 [jeremy]
earlier could you hear hassan better than me?
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was problem my end or yours?
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+hassan
21:06:12 [sandro]
I thought it was pretty similar
21:06:30 [jeremy]
ahh, i could hear hassan really well
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so problem was your end
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Scribe: Dave Reynolds
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ScribeNick: der
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Topic: History of KR standardization, Ben Grosof
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Slides: to be posted
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Highlighting CLIPS syntax as a de facto rule interchange, at least in past
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? is there a link to this presentation?
21:16:10 [der]
Not yet, to be posted
21:16:17 [hirtle]
as in, after the talk?
21:16:23 [jp]
k tnx
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+??P25
21:20:37 [bijan]
I would like to point out that I find much of this presentation tendentious
21:23:35 [der]
Bijan corrects SWRL comments on implementation - there exists a non-FOL reasoner, non-LP implmentation, Kaon
21:23:47 [bijan]
I guess it depends on what you mean by "non-LP"
21:23:55 [ChrisW]
tendentious: Marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan: a tendentious account of the recent elections.
21:24:16 [jp]
while your at it define "inference"
21:24:22 [mkroetzsch]
^Kaon^KAON2^
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21:24:39 [bijan]
I mean, KAON2 works by a (somewhat complex) reduction to positive disjuctive datalog
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But this is very difference than, say, AL Log
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very different
21:25:41 [bijan]
What I mean is that KAON2 implements a direct decision procedure for a rather expressive subset of SWRL (namely DL Safe SHIQ rules)
21:26:45 [mkroetzsch]
KAON2: http://kaon2.semanticweb.org/
21:32:42 [der]
[slides on semantics and examples, inferencing, ontology, skipped over, not presented]
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Sandro: use some of material as basis for glossary? Benjamin maintain?
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BG: depends
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Topic: W3C recommendations of relevance, Sandro
21:36:36 [sandro]
sandros slides: http://www.w3.org/2005/12/rif/glossary_w3c.html
21:38:46 [ChrisW-alt]
slide 7
21:39:41 [der]
Bijan: why is web arch relevant, given RIF charter is for interchange?
21:40:29 [der]
Sandro: e.g. use of URIs etc as in RDF and OWL is part of this group's charter
21:41:26 [der]
Bijan questions how formally Sandro represents tbl and DanC
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PPS: points out that people who know XSD are likely confused by it, e.g. xsd:duration
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s/PPS/pfps/
21:44:51 [Zakim]
-jeremy
21:45:09 [ChrisW-alt]
oops
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+??P3
21:45:36 [der]
[not as scribe: I think S in SPARQL is Simple, at least according to some members]
21:45:46 [ChrisW-alt]
zakim, who is on the phone?
21:45:46 [Zakim]
On the phone I see Meeting_Room, hassan, ??P25, jeremy
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[der see: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2005JulSep/0345.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARQL
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Harold: MathML is good for describing functions
21:47:48 [ChrisW-alt]
zakim, ?p25 is PedramAbrari
21:47:48 [Zakim]
sorry, ChrisW-alt, I do not recognize a party named '?p25'
21:47:57 [ChrisW-alt]
zakim, ??p25 is PedramAbrari
21:47:57 [Zakim]
+PedramAbrari; got it
21:48:09 [der]
.. a sub-initiative might be logical fns in MathML for user defined functions
21:49:25 [der]
Topic: Harold Boley, glossary entries
21:49:47 [der]
Anyone know the URL for the slides?
21:58:30 [der]
Slides presented by authors of each entry - MK for f-logic, Mike Dean for SWRL, Jos for WRL
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Igor
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ChrisW points out we treat these languages as examples of this that must interoperate, not as languages to argue over
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s/this/things/
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.. just covered web rule languages in this section
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Discussion on how to do interchange w/o defining "a language"
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Grosof: need "X language" terminology where X can be ..
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Execution Language
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Authoring Language
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RDF Encoding Syntax
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Concrete Syntax
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Abstraction Sytnax
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Jos: horn logic used ambiguously - subset of FOL v. LP
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Topic: Chris Menzel, Common Logics
22:07:50 [jos]
What was especially strange is the interpretation of Harold of Datalog. All model-theoretic definitions of Datalog in the literature are based on minimal Herbrand models and *not* first-order models
22:08:20 [der]
ChrisW: introduces CL, owl & rdf embedding, not kif but descended ..
22:08:40 [der]
.. has formal semantics which we will need too
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As I mentioned in the glossary overiew, the current entries give a top-level characterization.
22:14:26 [sandro]
(laughter at KIF example's english being amusingly different from KIF version)
22:14:26 [Harold]
Further distinctions such as FOL vs. LP semantics should be added for Datalog, Horn logic, and (indeed) for more expressive languages.
22:16:55 [der]
Slide on KIF is first order provokes discussion on whether it is really fully expressable in first order
22:17:31 [sandro]
cm's conclusion: KIF maybe isn't needed any more, if every tool starts working with RIF
22:21:19 [jos]
I think we need a different name for the function-free subset of Horn logic (with safety condition)
22:21:46 [jos]
Using "Datalog" is IMHO not clear
22:21:46 [sandro]
a name other than "datalog" ?
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interesting.
22:22:20 [jos]
Yes, because Datalog is based on minimal model semantics, whereas Harold also wanted to describe first-order semantics
22:22:33 [phitzler]
In that case we should probably also avoid "Datalog" because it's ambiguoug as to semantics. Depending on whom you ask.
22:23:02 [phitzler]
practical solution is to make it a practice to always state which semantics you mean
22:23:06 [jos]
Maybe we should start using citations when talking ;)
22:24:04 [jos]
Yes
22:26:48 [jos]
How and when will the glossary be published? It would be helpful to have this common terminology asap.
22:28:19 [sandro]
My suggestion is people put it into the RIF Wiki as quick as they can.
22:28:37 [jos]
URI of the RDF wiki?
22:28:56 [sandro]
http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/
22:32:32 [der]
Slide on CL's ability to allow syntactic restiction ..
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.. Dieter asks for clarification how the integrity constraint works
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.. see Pat Hayes for more details on that
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.. dialect is purely syntactic notion (but has semantic implications)
22:34:42 [sandro]
zakim, who is on the phone?
22:34:42 [Zakim]
On the phone I see Meeting_Room, hassan, PedramAbrari, jeremy (muted)
22:35:36 [jos]
How do we organize discussion around entries in the glossary? Email or in-line comments in the Wiki?
22:36:08 [bijan]
That's a tendentious claim!
22:36:23 [bijan]
(That first order roughtly means "compact")
22:36:53 [jos]
\me as a non-native speaker wonders what 'tendentious' means
22:37:34 [bijan]
<ChrisW>tendentious: Marked by a strong implicit point of view; partisan: a tendentious account of the recent elections.
22:37:38 [jp]
from Meriam webster: marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view : BIASED
22:38:08 [bijan]
It has a strong connotation of "contentious" or "controversial"
22:38:34 [bijan]
It is not usually, at least in my usage, a pejorative *per se*
22:39:16 [der]
Sandro: would xcl dialect restricted to horn fit with RIF phase 1?
22:39:33 [der]
cm: yes
22:39:54 [sandro]
cm: I think so ... not sure what exactly you need
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pfps: CL with equality won't be horn ..
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"A Horrocks Sentence"
22:41:29 [der]
.. cm: use dialect restrictions to prevent the punning which the pseudo-higher order allows
22:42:43 [sandro]
"It depends what you mean by 'having a different meaning'" :-)
22:43:25 [sandro]
(CM and PFPS going on.... we beyond what most of us are following.)
22:44:50 [sandro]
Harold: SCL ... CL ?
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CM: SCL was an unnecessary diversion that has been channeled back into CL
22:45:11 [der]
SCL? cm: unnecessary diversion, all channeled back into CL
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Dieter: can you express transitive closure?
22:47:00 [pfps]
A Horrocks sentence is something like (forall x forall y x=y) implies (Pa implies Qb)
22:47:11 [der]
.. cm tries to clarify question ... taken off line
22:47:12 [sandro]
People on the phone: please get on the queue by saying "q+' on IRC
22:47:16 [pfps]
This is an axiom in CL but not in FOL
22:47:23 [pfps]
It is also an FOL sentence
22:48:24 [mkroetzsch]
There was a question for the CL Website. It is http://cl.tamu.edu/
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mk: (refering to Dieter question) can't express that one relation is a transitive conclusion of another
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kifer: to express that one relationion is a transitive closure of another relation
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s/conclusion/closure/
22:49:00 [pfps]
Consider the following rule: x=y
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This brings up divergences between FOL and CL
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kifer: is not possible in FOL
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-hassan
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-jeremy
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If I understand it correctly, the sentence is an axiom in CL, because x=y ensures that P and Q are actually interpreted as the same relation; is this correct?
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¡
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+ +aacc
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+hassan
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in response to jos: yes
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scribe: Mike Dean
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Topic: Christian: tomorrow's schedule
23:25:15 [mdean]
morning: 1 use case per person
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pet use cases, not necessary real - why you think RIF is interested/needed
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interests of everyone, plus useful base
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5 minutes/person
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maybe we'll all have the same idea and be done very fast :-)
23:26:53 [mdean]
in afternoon, take a few more elaborated use cases (e.g. from email list)
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identify candidates for Use Case and Requirements document
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what's needed, etc.
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dissect case to see what is useful, missing
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shopping list of what we want in use cases
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random selection or ask for volunteers (cadavers)
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homework for tonight: synthesize/consolidate use cases
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call for volunteers now
23:30:33 [hirtle]
volunteer for what, exactly?
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the "homework"?
23:31:17 [mdean]
Harold Boley, Dave Reynolds, Paul, Benjamin, Vassilis, Mala, Bijan, Uli
23:31:25 [bijan]
I didn't volunteer
23:31:34 [bijan]
I volunteered uli
23:31:37 [mdean]
sorry
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+Paula
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-Paula
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Volunteers Paula
23:33:15 [mdean]
morning will be more personal
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no prescribed format initially
23:34:01 [mdean]
Christian removes hat to present a few PRR glossary entries
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-jeremy
23:34:18 [mdean]
and OMG standards
23:34:41 [jeremy]
Ahh - my call got dropped, but I'm flaking anyway
23:34:59 [ChrisW]
ok - g'nite then?
23:35:01 [jeremy]
I think I'll go to bed, and not redial ... see you all tomorrow
23:35:13 [mdean]
5 entries: meta-model, production rule, PRR, SOA, JSR 94
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slides presumably to be made available
23:35:48 [sandro]
ciao, Jeremy!
23:36:06 [mdean]
meta-model is the ontology for a model
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extends UML
23:36:24 [mdean]
no definition of meta-model in OMG literature :-(
23:37:55 [mdean]
pfps skeptical of rule language ontology
23:38:32 [bijan]
Now *that* is contentious :)
23:39:03 [mdean]
OMG MOF, UML, and other standards are relevant to meta-models
23:39:56 [mdean]
?: translation between rule languages if they share meta-model?
23:40:12 [mdean]
syntax only?
23:40:23 [mdean]
christian: no, semantics too
23:40:38 [mdean]
barkmeyer: some confusion even within OMG
23:40:43 [MarkusK]
^?^Pascal Hitzler^
23:40:49 [mdean]
thanx
23:41:14 [mdean]
barkmeyer: mapping between meta-models
23:41:32 [mdean]
christian: that's what is meant by sharing
23:41:43 [mdean]
grosof: sweetrules translations, e.g. jess to xsb
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grosof: distinctions necessary to handle, e.g. negation, properly
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back to briefing slides
23:42:28 [mdean]
slide: production rule
23:42:56 [mdean]
consequent is action or list of actions
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couldn't find statistics - but major vendors have 1000s of active customers
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users demanding standard rule interchange format
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vendors willing to implement
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slide: PRR
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Production Rule Representation
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under specification at OMG
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follow link to PRR Core UML diagram
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provides operational semantics not logic
23:48:56 [mdean]
PRR support not much of a constraint
23:49:50 [mdean]
defining PRR OCL (constraint language)
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translation to/from IRL and OCL via meta-models
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Bijan: what are constraints expressed in UML diagram?
23:51:20 [mdean]
Evan: constraints are separate package
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weaker than Z
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OCL = Object Constraint Language
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Paul: extension to OCL for rules
23:52:53 [mdean]
?: difference between production rule and rule?
23:53:06 [mdean]
not every rule is a production rule
23:53:32 [mdean]
color on diagram is slightly different (hard to see) - provides for future extensions (other classes of rules)
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q+
23:54:14 [mdean]
PRR white paper in January
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slide: SOA
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q-
23:54:35 [mdean]
Service Oriented Architecture
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end of OMG definitions
23:55:11 [mdean]
large class of use cases
23:55:41 [mdean]
RIF must be able to refer to web service as procedural attachment
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Slide: JSR 94
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informative, not constraining
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RIF would be standard rule language for JSR 94
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part of the motivation for vendors to implement RIF
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no apparent impact on design of RIF
23:57:54 [mdean]
Slide: SBVR
23:58:13 [hak]
who is speaking?
23:58:18 [mdean]
Donald Chapin
23:58:25 [hak]
Where are his slides?
23:58:40 [mdean]
not posted yet
23:58:51 [mdean]
Semantics of Business Vocabulary & Business Rules
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Business Modelling and Integration Domain Task Force
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OMG ^^
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"Semantic Beaver" (SBVR)