Re: RIF-PRD and ECA-rules

Hi Paul,

Thanks for the feedback. In general we do not have specific plans for new 
dialects as a working group, but new dialect definitions are sought based on FLD.

In Core, terms cannot be defined as equal in the language as you observe, but 
you can implement rules that check the equality of existing terms, e.g from some 
predefined dataset (maybe RDF). E.g. imagine a rule conditioned on a person's 
membership level in some organization.

-The RIF WG

 > From: Paul Fodor <pfodor@cs.stonybrook.edu>
 > Dear RIF list members,
 >
 > I'm interested in the RIF standard and I have a few comments (mostly on the
 > RIF Production Rule Dialect document). Overall, I like the RIF hierarchy as
 > a method for exchanging rule-like information between different systems and
 > it, definitely, looks as a complete and a mature material. I think that a
 > very strong point for RIF is its condition for safeness of rules, so that
 > the logical semantics of RIF-BLD and the operational fixed-point semantics
 > of RIF-PRD coincide.
 >
 > My first suggestion is to use the RIF-PRD (with its forward chaining
 > operational semantics) as the base dialect for a reaction rules dialect
 > which also incorporates events in the style of Event-Condition-Action (ECA)
 > rules: on <event> if <condition> then <action> (of course, if there is
 > enough interest from the community for this need). It seems as a logical
 > extension for the production rules dialect (PR are ECA rules without the
 > event part). Another special case of this ECA dialect would be triggers
 > (i.e., ECA rules without the condition part). Moreover, the event part of
 > this dialect could also address Complex Event Processing (CEP) for rules for
 > the event composition (which can be also interchanged rules under RIF).
 >
 > My second comment/question is about equality. The core dialect only allows
 > equality in rule premises which is puzzling to me because I don't see how is
 > then used (how terms are 'defined' as equal).

Received on Friday, 28 August 2009 13:33:38 UTC