[cuo-wg] Executable English vs FOL for all domains run time interoperabi

["Adrian Walker" <adriandwalker@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jim --

This is to try to address a little better how Executable English (EE)
may help to answer your requirement for 2N interoperability over all
compliant domains.

The EE approach for all compliant domains would be to find a canonical,
pivot  body of knowledge so as to get to 2N, and to represent the
knowledge in EE rather than FOL. (But see below for the automatic,
bi-directional mapping between EE and FOL).

For example, in

  www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/OntologyInterop2.agent

a canonical set of units is chosen.  Then, anyone using other
units must use the suggested adapters to map to the canonical
units.  This is 2N.  The agent computes the adapters that are
needed.

As another example,  in
 
   www.reengineeringllc.com/demo_agents/SemanticResolution1.agent

anyone wishing to do business must have an adapter (2N again)
that  maps his or her internal terminology to a more general,
canonical "upper"  set of terms.  So, in this example, the
pivot is a taxonomic hierarchy.

EE is automatically mapped into and out of an FOL-like notation for
inference.  But that's done inside a black box called Internet
Business Logic, which also does the inference, and provides the English
explanations of what's going on.   It gets scalability by
automatically generating and running networked SQL "under the
covers".  

So, as an analogy, EE is to FOL as Java is to Assembly Language. 
In this analogy, the Internet Business Logic system corresponds to a
Java compiler.

Hope this makes sense.  If folks have time to run some examples**,
comments would be much appreciated.  You can write and run your
own examples too.

                                             
Thanks,   -- Adrian

**  Just point a browser to www.reengineeringllc.com and click on
Internet Business Logic.  The system works better with Mozilla or
Firefox than with IE.  For IE, the "browsers" page has some
suggested settings.

Adrian Walker
Reengineering
Phone: USA 860 830 2085

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