[xtm-wg] Towards XTM 2.0

[Jack Park <jackpark@verticalnet.com>]

While at Dallas, I was so struck with the conceptual model that it occurred
to me that the concept Association could be extended to another one:
ConditionalAssociation.  With that, one could then use a TM as, get this, an
inference engine.  Gads.
 
Doing inferences is one of the primary goals of the Semantic Web initiative,
and it may just be that XTM could play a larger role in that than originally
envisioned.
 
We are not alone, however.  Consider this web site:
http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/ruleml/ <http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/ruleml/> 
RuleML.  It turns out that, in my deepest memorybank, there resides a note
that IBM recently got a patent on something like RuleML.  I just don't have
time to dig that one up right now.
 
>From that web site:
"Rules in (and for) the Web have become a mainstream topic since inference
rules were marked up for E-Commerce
<http://www.research.ibm.com/rules/home.html>  and were identified as a
Design Issue <http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Rules.html>  of the Semantic
Web <http://www.semanticweb.org/> , and since transformation rules were put
to practice for document
<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxml/chapter/ch09.html> generation from a
central XML repository ( as used here
<http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/ruleml/#Practice-Preach> ). Rules have also
continued to play an important role in Intelligent Agents
<http://agents.umbc.edu/>  and AI shells
<http://www.mailgate.org/comp/comp.ai.shells/>  for knowledge-based systems,
which need a Web interchange format, too. The Rule Markup Initiative has
taken initial steps towards defining a shared Rule Markup Language (RuleML),
permitting both forward (bottom-up) and backward (top-down) rules in XML for
deduction, rewriting, and further inferential-transformational tasks. The
initiative started during PRICAI 2000 <http://www3.cm.deakin.edu.au/pricai/>
, as described in the Original RuleML
<http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/ruleml/RuleML/sld001.htm> Slide, and was launched
<http://www.mailgate.org/comp/comp.ai.shells/msg00100.html>  in the Internet
on 2000-11-10. A complementary effort
<http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/ruleml/#Engines>  coordinates the development of
Java rule engines. A Rule Markup Workshop is planned in conjunction with the
third International Conference on Electronic Commmerce, ICEC2001
<http://icec.net/> , in Vienna, Austria, in October 2001. "
 
My thinking is this: once you are deeply ensconsed in navigating a site
using XTM, why not be able to ask logical question to and about that site?
Add inferences and GroveMinder and you've got a really big slice of useful
pie <note>I just joined the marketing committee mailing list <gg></note>.
 
Jack


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