[DL] Guidance on applying DL

[Christel Kemke]

I would suggest - if you do not insist on using exactly DL - to look 
into Rule-Based /Expert-System languages. In particular I would 
recommend to check out CLIPS, which includes an inference engine for 
reasoning based on a set of (given initial) facts. It allows more and 
other specifications of rules than usual logic-based systems and 
languages like PROLOG. There is also an extension to CLIPS, called COOL, 
which integrates object-oriented programming, including inheritance (I 
think meta-classes, too), and this you can use to implement some form of 
DL.

Regards,
Christel Kemke

K. V. Viswanathan wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am almost completely new to the field of DL and am
>looking for advice. 
>
>I have a problem requiring KR and inference in the
>field of planning. I have read some of the
>introductory chapters from the forthcoming DL
>handbook.
>
>I need to represent facts and many causal links such
>as "A affects B" or "an increase in A will cause a
>decrease in B" and the like. Armed with such a
>knowledge base, I then need to study the impact of
>adding new facts into the KB.
>
>Would the upcoming OWL (Web Ontology Language) be a
>suitable candidate for this representation and
>reasoning problem? Or should I be considering other
>languages? Pointers to and links to useful readings
>that will enable me to come up to speed will also be
>much welcome.
>
>Thanks,
>
>K. V. Viswanathan
>
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