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Future Developments
A Number of Other Issues…


  • Lot of R&D is going on:
    • improve the inference algorithms and implementations
    • improve scalability
    • reasoning with OWL Full
    • temporal & spatial reasoning
    • fuzzy logic
    • better modularization (import part of ontologies)
    • procedural attachments
    • open world and non-unique-name assumptions; in OWL:
      • if something cannot be proven, it might still be true
      • two individuals with different names might be identical
    • it is o.k. on the Web, but might be a problem for applications
    • …
  • They usually happen outside of W3C, though
    • W3C is not a research entity…

Ivan Herman, W3C 113 (134)