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Subject: Re: [soa-rm] concept maps
At this point, we are using CM for description and have no a priori desire for inference. Yes, tweaking with a little RDF would give you some basic capability there too, but we don't yet need a full logic language. Ken On Dec 8, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Frank McCabe wrote: > Been doing some research on the net about concept maps. > > It seems that concept maps are nearly always used in an educational > context. It may even be that we have been pioneering the use of > concept maps as a modeling tool :) > > There is a close semantic similarity between RDF and concept maps. It > would not be a great stretch to use RDF as the semantics of concept > maps. RDF does have a semantics now that > > The reason for picking this approach is that basing a semantics of CM > on KIF or CL pushes you in a direction that is not especially helpful. > (I.e., you start wanting to add in the extra features you get in a > logic language; but in fact most CMs are assertional in nature.) > > So, the technical route is there. I wonder if the political will is > too? > > Frank > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------ Ken Laskey MITRE Corporation, M/S H305 phone: 703-983-7934 7515 Colshire Drive fax: 703-983-1379 McLean VA 22102-7508
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