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The W3C has embarked on a new standardization effort: the Rules Interchange Format (RIF). The goal of the effort has undergone several changes from the initial idea of creating a standard ”rules” layer for the semantic web, and its official mission is to provide a standardized interchange for rules. This change, from creating a rule language to an interchange standard, has been driven mainly by the large number of interests the effort is trying to satisfy, which make it seem impossible to settle on a single language and potentially more feasible to design a method for interoperability. Even with this slightly less politically charged agenda, the number of interests are large, from ”Business Rules”, ”Production Rules”, ”Reactive Rules”, etc., to query languages, First-order logic, alethic and deontic modal logic, etc., to bayes nets, fuzzy logic, etc., to programming languages themselves. Will anything usable ever arise from this morass?
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Welty, C.A. (2006). Semantic Web: The Story of the RIFt so Far. In: Etalle, S., Truszczyński, M. (eds) Logic Programming. ICLP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4079. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11799573_2
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