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

To: "Schoening, James R C-E LCMC CIO/G6" <James.Schoening@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "common upper ontology working group" <cuo-wg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: "Adrian Walker" <adriandwalker@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 13:57:07 -0500
Message-id: <1e89d6a40611171057g601856e9p9377b20833748c3d@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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