Hi fellow DAML'ers, The Rules Breakout REVISED preliminary agenda is below. Comments and suggestions are welcome! -- E.g., additional topics, or your news. Agenda for Rules Breakout at DAML PI Workshop 4/9/03 1300-1600 EDT (preliminary, draft of 4/7/03) led by Benjamin Grosof with assistance from Mike Dean o top-level goals for the Breakout: - bring folks up to speed generally on latest relevant progress and news, e.g., there's lots on relationships to RDF, OWL, Query, W3C - share news generally from folks -- e.g., what tools using / making - discuss technical issues, e.g., relationships to RDF, OWL, Query, Services - set some near-term focus and plans for DAML Rules effort o focus areas: - requirements, use cases, and language features . features focus includes: object-orientedness, negation & defaults - relationship to RDF, OWL, Query . focus includes: abstract syntax, Description Logic Programs, Horn - relationship to Services and security . features focus includes: procedural attachments & reactiveness o overall time allocation: 1/3 presentation, 2/3 discussion o outline: Part I. overall update on DAML Rules and RuleML Part II. Rules Use Cases and Requirements effort Part III. RuleML in relation to RDF, OWL, and Query Part IV. Rules and Services o 1300-1325 Overall UPDATE on DAML Rules and RuleML - 1300-1315 overview presentation . Description Logic Programs update; SweetOnto tool . RuleML Working Note draft; language features . Rules Uses Cases & Requirements draft in Joint Committee . relationship to Query in RDF, and to DQL - survey draft - use cases drafts . news, incl. W3C Plenary, RuleML tools . upcoming ISWC Rules Workshop . overview of topics and goals for breakout - 1315-1325 discussion . all share their news . how DAML'ers are using rules now . agenda refinement o 1325-1350 Rules Use Cases & Requirements effort in Joint Committee - 1325-1335 presentation by Stefan Decker and Deborah McGuinnesss - 1335-1350 discussion o 1350-1450 RuleML in relation to RDF and OWL and Query - 1350-1415 background presentation . *proposed ABSTRACT SYNTAX for RuleML: approach, examples - encoding RuleML syntax in RDF or OWL - unorderedness in RDF/OWL vs. orderedness in XML-S, commercial systems - object-oriented argument collections in RuleML . other topics: - rules on top of ontologies, e.g., in SweetDeal - Description Logic Programs - RDF triples as facts in rules - relationship to RDF Query Systems and to DQL - querying remote systems via procedural attachments - 1415-1450 discussion . mixing of RuleML encoded in RDF/OWL with use by rules of OWL ontologies . Rules expressive features: which and where are useful . scenarios of usage of rules together with RDF Query, DQL o 1450-1500 BREAK o 1500-1530 Rules and Services - 1500-1510 background presentation . rule-based semantic web services: concepts, techniques, and scenarios . business processes as starting point; contracts, exception handling . *PROCEDURAL ATTACHMENTS: built-ins, situated logic programs, Event-Condition-Action (ECA), OPS5/Jess - 1510-1530 discussion . applications of rules in services and security o 1530-1600 Setting Focus and PLANS - discussion . language features, tools, scenarios