07:49:58 RRSAgent has joined #rif 07:49:58 logging to http://www.w3.org/2006/02/27-rif-irc 07:50:10 FrankMcCabe has joined #rif 07:59:13 patranja has joined #rif 07:59:32 AxelPolleres has joined #rif 08:00:33 msintek has joined #rif 08:00:48 topic: introduction 08:00:54 scribe: sandro 08:01:00 chair: Christian 08:01:07 RRSAgent, make minutes 08:01:07 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2006/02/27-rif-minutes.html sandro 08:02:30 Christian: My objective is to finalize discussion on use cases. If we can't do then, then we need to agree on what to publish. 08:02:42 s/then/that/ 08:03:13 josb has joined #rif 08:03:47 Christian: We're obvsiously starting late. The agenda may need to shift. 08:03:56 (long line at registration, although really only about 10 minutes.) 08:04:10 Christian: We might or might not do the split sessions 08:04:54 ... One of the objectives of this meeting is to have people talk to each other, including in small groups. Thus the long lunch break. 08:05:07 sandro has changed the topic to: RIF F2F2: http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/F2F2 08:05:45 can someone dial in to Zakim? 08:06:28 We seem to not have a speakerphone, Mike. Sorry. I'll try to figure it out during the break. 08:06:44 Francois has joined #rif 08:06:56 ok - thanks 08:07:16 (We were supposed to have one, and are paying for one.) 08:11:35 Christian: Scribes! One scribe for short sessions, two for long. Not much more than one hour or maybe 1.5 hours. 08:11:39 http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/ScribesList 08:11:46 msintek has joined #rif 08:12:11 MarkusK has joined #rif 08:12:18 PaulaP has joined #rif 08:12:21 ivan has joined #rif 08:13:34 JosDeRoo has joined #rif 08:13:57 ivan has joined #rif 08:14:02 AxelPolleres has joined #rif 08:16:50 GaryHallmark has joined #rif 08:17:17 First session scribe: Gary, then Giorgos Stamou 08:18:03 EliasT has joined #rif 08:18:12 Attendance 08:18:15 * Sandro Hawke (W3C/MIT) : attending monday, tuesday 08:18:29 * Peter F. Patel-Schneider (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) : attending monday, tuesday 08:18:50 * François Bry (REWERSE) : attending monday, tuesday 08:19:00 * Jos de Bruijn (DERI Innsbruck at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria) : attending monday, tuesday 08:19:08 * Igor Mozetic (Jozef Stefan Institute) : attending monday, tuesday 08:19:17 * Axel Polleres (DERI Innsbruck at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria) : attending monday, tuesday 08:19:23 * John Hall (Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG)) : attending monday, tuesday 08:19:25 LeeF has joined #rif 08:19:29 * Paula-Lavinia Patranjan (REWERSE) : attending monday, tuesday 08:19:36 * Michael Sintek (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) Gmbh) : attending monday, tuesday 08:19:43 * Giorgos Stamou (Image Video & Multimedia Systems Laboratory of National Technical University of Athens (IVML-NTUA)) : attending monday, tuesday 08:20:00 * Hassan Ait-Kaci (ILOG, S.A.) : attending monday, tuesday 08:20:12 * Francis McCabe (Fujitsu Limited) : attending monday, tuesday 08:20:17 (Frank) 08:20:35 * Jos De Roo (Agfa-Gevaert N. V.) : attending monday, tuesday 08:20:39 * Christian de Sainte Marie (ILOG, S.A.) : attending monday, tuesday 08:20:45 * Gary Hallmark (Oracle Corporation) : attending monday, tuesday 08:20:54 * Markus Krötzsch (Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI)) : attending monday, tuesday 08:21:09 coming late: * Andreas Harth (DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) : attending monday, tuesday 08:21:22 not here: * Sergio Tessaris (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano) : attending monday, tuesday 08:21:29 * Allen Ginsberg (MITRE Corporation) : attending monday, tuesday 08:21:45 mistake: * Eric Miller (W3C/MIT) : attending monday, tuesday 08:21:56 * Uli Sattler (University of Manchester) : attending monday, tuesday 08:22:01 * Paul Vincent (Fair Isaac Corporation) : attending monday, tuesday 08:22:07 * Michael Kifer (W3C Invited Experts) : attending monday, tuesday 08:22:12 * Donald Chapin (Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG)) : attending monday, tuesday 08:22:20 * Deepali Khushraj (Nokia Corporation) : attending monday, tuesday 08:22:25 * Harold Boley (National Research Council Canada) : attending monday, tuesday 08:22:34 * Giorgos Stoilos (Image Video & Multimedia Systems Laboratory of National Technical University of Athens (IVML-NTUA)) : attending monday, tuesday 08:22:43 Not coming: * Dieter Fensel (DERI Galway at the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland) : attending monday, tuesday 08:22:50 * Darko Anicic (DERI Innsbruck at the Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria) : attending monday, tuesday 08:22:54 * Mala Mehrotra (Pragati Synergetic Research Inc.) : attending monday, tuesday 08:23:04 * Jeff Pan (University of Manchester) : attending monday, tuesday 08:23:09 * Jeremy Carroll (Hewlett Packard Company) : attending monday, tuesday 08:24:52 coming late: * Christopher Welty (IBM Corporation) : attending monday, tuesday 08:24:52 * Vassilis Tzouvaras 08:24:53 (not yet registered) 08:24:57 Observers: 08:24:59 * Christine Golbreich (not affiliated to a W3C Member) : attending monday, tuesday 08:25:06 (not here) Eric Miller 08:25:08 (not here) Danny Weitzner 08:25:13 (not here) * Thomas Roessler (W3C/ERCIM) : attending monday, tuesday 08:25:14 * Lee Feigenbaum (IBM Corporation) : attending monday, tuesday 08:25:15 JeffP has joined #rif 08:25:16 * Elias Torres (IBM Corporation) : attending monday, tuesday 08:25:31 (not here) * Susan Lesch (W3C/MIT) : attending monday 08:25:38 (not here) * Andy Seaborne (Hewlett Packard Company) : attending monday, tuesday 08:25:44 (not here) * Fabien Gandon (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) : attending monday, tuesday 08:25:45 Darko has joined #rif 08:26:19 (not here) * Carine Bournez (W3C/ERCIM) : attending monday, tuesday 08:26:40 s/(not here)// 08:26:49 * Ivan Herman (W3C/ERCIM) : attending monday 08:27:20 * Alistair Miles (Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CCL)) : attending monday, tuesday 08:27:29 * Eric Prud'hommeaux (W3C/ERCIM) : attending monday, tuesday 08:28:45 * Brian McBride 08:29:12 Attendees complete. 08:29:54 Mike Dean on IRC and phone 08:30:13 ScribeNick: GaryHallmark 08:30:14 Topic: 09:00-10:30 - Review Use Cases (section 2 of [WWW] UC&R draft) 08:31:09 rrsagent, make minutes 08:31:09 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2006/02/27-rif-minutes.html sandro 08:32:29 ScribeNick: GaryHallmark 08:35:09 christian: forus on the purpose of rule interchange 08:35:23 ... e.g. it could be compliance 08:36:18 ... or negotiation to refine the rule 08:37:16 ... or to extend and published ontology 08:37:18 s/and/an 08:37:28 s/an/a 08:37:41 ericP has joined #rif 08:37:50 Harold has joined #rif 08:38:02 sandro, would you like me to chekc on the speaker phone? 08:38:22 s/forus/focus/ 08:38:39 ... RIF could be used without interchange, e.g. persitance 08:38:48 Sure, EricP, but coordinate with Carine, who might be checking as well. 08:39:11 s/persitance/persistence 08:39:32 Christian: 1. Purpose of Publish/Interchange of Rule 08:39:32 Christian: 2. Purpose of Translating the Rules into RIF 08:39:32 08:39:35 ... look for gaps and overlaps in UCs 08:39:36 aliman has joined #rif 08:42:47 allen: would like OWL use cases as a model for ours 08:43:50 GiorgosStamou has joined #rif 08:44:02 ... uses cases should drive design requirements but not be over-analyzed 08:44:41 +1 on Frank & Allen (don't worry about UC's being idiosyncratic -- just use them to drive Goals/Requirements.) 08:45:36 ... use case names should catch people's interest 08:47:00 DaveReynolds has joined #rif 08:49:42 GaryHallmark has joined #rif 08:50:16 frank: look for fundamental drivers and issues rather than more cases 08:52:03 sandro: use cases should drive design decisions 08:52:52 in the DAWG, use cases lead directly to requirements 08:52:56 JeremyCarroll has joined #rif 08:53:21 the two were cross-ref'd, which allowed us to drop redundant use cases 08:53:42 Zakim has joined #rif 08:54:07 zakim, who is here? 08:54:07 sorry, sandro, I don't know what conference this is 08:54:09 On IRC I see JeremyCarroll, GaryHallmark, DaveReynolds, GiorgosStamou, aliman, Harold, ericP, Darko, JeffP, LeeF, EliasT, AxelPolleres, ivan, PaulaP, MarkusK, msintek, Francois, 08:54:11 zakim, this is rifwg 08:54:11 ... josb, FrankMcCabe, RRSAgent, sandro, mdean 08:54:12 ok, sandro; that matches SW_RIF(TP)3:00AM 08:55:10 topic: information integration use case 08:55:31 allen: now named business process design 08:56:08 ... rif would help redesign or improve biz process 08:57:26 frank: tried to make the case more compelling 08:57:34 http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/UCR/Information_Integration 08:57:37 ... driver: dynamic integration of information 08:58:39 ... explore synergy of biz processes and rules 08:59:43 Uli: is this about integrating data (via rules), or integrating rules? 08:59:48 ... about integrating rules, not using rules to integrate data 08:59:54 Frank: integrating rules. 09:01:06 Frank: We need access to business rules of supply chain partners. 09:02:37 francois: rule integration should be a central theme of several use cases 09:03:09 s/rule/ruleset 09:03:28 Francois: "Integrating rule sets" 09:04:32 Jeremy: HP wants integration of data! 09:05:04 +1 agree with Jeremy; RIF should support information integration 09:05:21 Christian: Yes -- if this section turns into Ruleset Integration, we need data mapping someone else. 09:05:43 s/someone/somewhere 09:06:05 frank: Hendler argues that RIF is for rule interchange, not information integration 09:07:35 francois: rif is for both information integration and rule set integration 09:08:20 ... rule sets will need to be integrated sometime after they exist 09:09:22 ... because the rule sets are developed in parallel 09:11:09 Christian: if each user does the data mapping rules on their own, ... that doesn't scale. 09:11:44 ... I need to import that rules. 09:12:22 Jeremy: If I can publish my mappings in a publically understanding format, then it *does* scale. 09:12:59 ...: But Jena rules doesn't solve the problem -- we need RIF so people can publish the rules for re-use. 09:13:28 Frank: Is RIF yet another rule language for describing mappings. 09:13:53 ivan_ has joined #rif 09:14:46 francois: porting rules is hard 09:15:04 ... but we can enable publishing 09:17:51 sandro: would like more concrete details about possible data mapping use case 09:19:23 sandro: I specifically heard Frank say "We need access to business rules of supply chain partners" -- and I like that as a concrete, motivated use case 09:19:41 sandro: And Jeremy seems to be motivated on data mapping. 09:19:46 frank: familiar with product that uses rules to map biz terms to IT term, but it doesn't involve rule exchange 09:21:11 Jeremy: Is enterpirse information integration problem done in one giant leap (millions paid to SAP), or does one do it in a distributed small-steps manner? The latter requires publishing rules. 09:21:30 sandro; Call that "Grassroots Data Integration" 09:21:40 s/;/:/ 09:23:13 sandro: I'm hearing two use cases here : ruleset integration (eg for supply chain); grassroots data integration (eg vocabulary mapping business -to- IT vocabularies) 09:23:47 "access to business rules of supply chain partners" 09:25:42 frank: supplier and customer relationships are different 09:26:16 christian: do you need to execute the rules? 09:26:32 frank: not clear 09:27:08 ... i.e. the rules are not aggregated 09:28:44 frank: relationships are dynamic - data may come from you or partner, rules may be executed by you or partner 09:29:40 portability vs publication 09:30:18 sandro: need to move to another use case 09:31:56 topic: Coffee Break until 11:00 09:33:35 MalaMehrotra has joined #rif 09:48:16 deepalik has joined #rif 10:02:10 RRSAgent, make minutes 10:02:10 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2006/02/27-rif-minutes.html sandro 10:03:41 +??P3 10:03:42 +Dave_Reynolds (was ??P3) 10:03:58 topic: UCR - Decision Support 10:04:06 http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/UCR/Decision_Support 10:09:05 MarkusK has joined #rif 10:09:35 ScribeNick: deepalik 10:10:48 igor has joined #rif 10:11:11 Christian: 15 minutes on Decision Support use case 10:11:37 ... note Leora is not here 10:12:45 ... Decision Support -> Integrating Rules from Multiple Knowledge Sources for Decision Support 10:13:19 csma: key focus of use case is integrating rules from multiple knowledge sources for decision support 10:13:39 http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/wiki/UCR/Decision_Support 10:14:13 might want to distinguish between interoperation and integration 10:14:48 s/might/Uli Sattler: might" 10:15:10 s/might/Uli Sattler: might/ 10:18:14 csma: will anyone argue for keeping the E-Learning use cases? 10:18:34 csma: this is clearly a use case of aggregation-- the doctore scenario does not add value to this. Hence, might want to drop this 10:18:44 s/doctore/doctor 10:19:40 s/doctor/E-learning use case 10:21:48 +1 on Sandro's comment; use case descriptions should be concise 10:27:04 this section needs some review to cover important points covered in straw poll comments 10:29:10 FrankMcCabe has joined #rif 10:31:11 csma: what are the key dimensions of this use case? 10:31:29 suggested: 2.2 Ruleset Integration for Medical Decision Support 10:32:45 suggested: 2.* Interative User Training Via Reactive Rules 10:33:36 Francois: Main title as one axies, subtitle as another axis -- doesn't really matter which is which. 10:34:21 Need to rename this section with maybe a subtitle. 10:34:31 Uli: another heading: added value from RIF 10:37:32 Francois: Give me an appplication based on Rules, and half a day, and I'll show you how you'll end up with rule interchange! 10:37:47 +1 10:39:20 +1 agree with last comment Francois 10:42:28 sandro: does the WG agree that aggregating rules for decision support -- eg for drug proscribing -- is in scope for us, something to do. 10:42:43 sandro: vote on who thinks that aggregating rules for decision support systems is in scope 10:43:37 paul: are they cases where you do the integration by hand now? 10:46:46 Christine: you need to aggregate onotologies (as in Charter use case) as well as rules. 10:47:51 accessing and integrating rules from many sources to support decision -- is this a RIF Use Case? 10:48:19 resolved: in scope 10:50:16 Christian: different from Frank's case in that you're integrating the rules here. 10:50:31 Hassan: Digest the rules. 10:51:03 different from integration use case is you take ownership on rules 10:51:10 Gary: really want a few simple examples of rules in each use case!! 10:51:27 (widely seconded) 10:52:08 2-3 people don't think it should be done 10:52:16 why not: Peter -- examples could be another source of contention, or could be wrong, or could concentrate attention on things that don't matter. 10:52:52 Peter: eg endless arguments about the service syntax. 10:53:23 Allen: as long as it's clear, examples not needed. Might even be offputting. 10:53:29 Allen: Did not support it because it is not crucial to formalize them 10:54:23 Use don't have to use a formal syntax-- it could be in natural language 10:54:24 josb: rules can be in pseudocode 10:54:35 s/Use/Rules 10:54:39 josb: this is rule 1: (in english) 10:55:50 Francois: be careful that people might read too much into examples -- like that this is the syntax we'll be using! 10:56:19 (I wonder if each example could be captioned "Pseudo-code example") 10:56:29 mala: the interchange aspects are not brought out by examples. 10:57:03 csma:examples could be more like protocols (?) 10:59:05 jeremy has joined #rif 11:02:36 jeremy has joined #rif 11:03:46 AxelPolleres has joined #rif 11:04:01 JosDeRoo has joined #rif 11:04:28 GaryHallmark has joined #rif 11:05:35 msintek has joined #rif 11:07:01 MarkusK has joined #rif 11:08:03 ivan has joined #rif 11:16:37 -Dave_Reynolds 11:17:48 msintek has left #rif 11:17:54 PaulaP has joined #rif 11:17:58 msintek has joined #rif 11:18:09 EliasT has joined #rif 11:18:13 josb has joined #rif 11:18:49 sandro has joined #rif 11:21:13 PaulaP has left #rif 11:28:45 -Mike_Dean 11:31:15 csma has joined #rif 11:31:41 http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/ucr/diff-20060215-20060227.html 11:51:28 jeremy has joined #rif 11:53:47 JosDeRoo has joined #rif 12:12:30 sandro has joined #rif 12:40:12 patranja has joined #rif 12:42:27 MarkusK has joined #rif 12:44:38 josb has joined #rif 12:49:28 aharth has joined #rif 12:55:06 +Mike_Dean 12:55:18 msintek has joined #rif 12:55:50 Francois has joined #rif 12:56:03 Vassilis has joined #rif 12:57:36 bwm has joined #rif 12:58:16 FrankMcCabe has joined #rif 12:58:26 +??P4 12:58:30 +Dave_Reynolds (was ??P4) 12:59:44 tlr has joined #rif 13:01:46 \me, Hello 13:02:34 MarkusK has joined #rif 13:02:35 RRSAgent, make minutes 13:02:35 I have made the request to generate http://www.w3.org/2006/02/27-rif-minutes.html sandro 13:04:06 Note for the record that we have real network problems -- some people can't get on IRC. 13:07:43 http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/ucr/draft-20060227.html 13:08:00 http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/ucr/draft-20060227.html#Cross-Platform_Rule_Development_and_Deployment 13:09:02 AxelPolleres has joined #rif 13:10:24 Mala: My objection was about the importance of templates, which help highlight differences between rules. 13:10:33 EliasT has joined #rif 13:12:40 Darko has joined #rif 13:13:31 ivan has joined #rif 13:15:07 LeeF has joined #rif 13:15:43 PaulV: We use have parameterized templates-- design patterns for rules -- but they are orthogonal to rules themselves. It might be useful to pass around templates, sure. 13:18:01 GaryHallmark has joined #rif 13:18:01 Harold: These are rule schemes 13:18:11 s/mes/mas/ 13:20:29 aharth has joined #rif 13:24:52 igor has joined #rif 13:25:56 Francois: Rule signatures 13:44:57 RESOLVED: approve 2.3 as modified on wiki and with new title (as shown on csma's slide) 13:45:50 (where Approval means for next editor's draft --- objections might still come from member's orgs -- not quite approval for publication yet.) 13:47:07 old version (straw poll version) is http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/ucr/draft-20060215 13:48:00 diff of section 2.4 (this one) is http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/ucr/diff-20060215-20060227.html#Policy-Based_Transaction_Authorization_and_Access_Control 13:53:19 GiorgosStamou has joined #rif 13:53:27 sandro has left #rif 13:53:34 sandro has joined #rif 13:55:32 Keeper has joined #rif 13:56:41 RalphS has joined #rif 13:58:35 Donald: RIF needs to pick a standard language for its facts, eg RDF 14:12:08 tlr has joined #rif 14:12:35 JosDeRoo has joined #rif 14:17:45 changes at http://www.w3.org/2005/rules/wg/ucr/diff-20060215-20060227.html 14:18:24 LeeF has left #rif 14:20:03 MalaMehrotra has joined #rif 14:22:06 RESOLVED: approve 2.4 15:03:33 MarkusK has joined #rif 15:15:19 tlr has joined #rif 15:26:08 AllenG has joined #rif 16:00:04 -Dave_Reynolds 16:01:05 msintek has joined #rif 16:10:17 FrankMcCabe has joined #rif 16:13:32 PaulaP has joined #rif 16:17:19 josb has joined #rif 16:19:06 bwm has joined #rif 16:21:16 EvanWallace has joined #rif 16:28:44 MalaMehrotra has joined #rif 16:30:20 GaryHallmark has joined #rif 16:32:47 bwm has joined #rif 16:39:07 MarkusK has joined #rif 16:41:13 sandro has joined #rif 16:46:35 ivan has joined #rif 17:03:00 -Mike_Dean 17:08:00 disconnecting the lone participant, TPRivieraC, in SW_RIF(TP)3:00AM 17:08:03 SW_RIF(TP)3:00AM has ended 17:08:05 Attendees were Mike_Dean, TPRivieraC, Dave_Reynolds 17:10:14 mdean has left #rif