[SCL] bringing Common Logic to the W3C

[Sandro Hawke]

I'm co-chairing a W3C workshop to move us one step closer to a W3C
standard language for rules.  I had hoped Pat Hayes would be able to
attend the workshop and present the approach taken by CL, but due to a
scheduling conflict he wont be able to attend.  He is on the program
committee, however.

The workshop will have a lot of representation from traditional rules
vendors, including Business Rules folks.  It should also have some
people more traditionally associated with RDF and the Semantic Web.
Our hope in organizing this workshop is to find the common ground here
and hopefully move on to charter a working group.

My personal sense is that CL is close to what we need, although I
haven't reviewed recent versions and may not have thought through all
the issues.  I don't know how CL addresses issues like local closed
worlds and builtins.

In any case, I would very much like someone familiar with CL to bring
it to the workshop and help keep an FOL-style solution on the table.
Since it can't be Pat, is there anyone else here who would find this
interesting and potentially useful?   

There is some urgency - brief position papers are required, and the
deadline for them is the 18th (a week from tomorrow).   For full
details, please read the CFP [1].  Feel free to ask me more questions
here or in private.

      -- sandro

[1] http://www.w3.org/2004/12/rules-ws/cfp