Harold Boley, Michael Kifer, Paula-Lavinia Pătrânjan, Axel Polleres:
Rule Interchange on the Web.
Abstract
Rules play an increasingly important role in a variety of
Semantic Web applications as well as in traditional IT systems. As a
universal medium for publishing information, the Web is envisioned to
become the place for publishing, distributing, and exchanging rule-based
knowledge. Realizing the importance and the promise of this vision, W3C
has created the Rule Interchange Format Working Group (RIF WG) and
chartered it to develop an interchange format for rules in alignment with
the existing standards in the Semantic Web architecture stack. However,
creating a generally accepted interchange format is by no means a trivial
task. First, there are different understandings of what a "rule"
is. Researchers and practitioners distinguish between deduction rules,
normative rules, production rules, reactive rules, etc. Second, even
within the same category of rules, systems use different (often
incompatible) semantics and syntaxes. Third, existing Semantic Web
standards, such as RDF and OWL, show incompatibilities with many kinds of
rule languages at a conceptual level. This article discusses the role that
different kinds of rule languages and systems play on the Web, illustrates
the problems and opportunities in exchanging rules through a standardized
format, and provides a snapshot of the current work of the W3C RIF WG.
URL:
http://rewerse.net/publications/rewerse-publications.html#REWERSE-RP-2007-030
@inproceedings{REWERSE-RP-2007-030, author = {Harold Boley and Michael Kifer and Paula-Lavinia P\u{a}tr\^anjan and Axel Polleres}, title = {Rule Interchange on the Web}, booktitle = {Proceedings of Summer School Reasoning Web 2007, Dresden, Germany (3rd--7th September 2007)}, year = {2007}, volume = {4634}, organization = {REWERSE}, series = {LNCS}, pages = {269--309}, url = {http://rewerse.net/publications/rewerse-publications.html#REWERSE-RP-2007-030} }