A new Bossam on Feb. 5

A new Bossam release is planned on Feb. 5, 2007.

The new release will include better OWL DL reasoning supports:

• Enhanced coverage on classification based on boolean compositions of classes
• Enhanced coverage on classification based on nominals (owl:oneOf)

Also, a new rule construct is introduced: rule-generating rules (RGR). With RGR, it’s possible to assert a rule at the consequent as shown below.


rule r is
if causality(?cause, ?result)
then
assert if ?cause then ?result;


RGR will help representing more complex knowledge and optimizing knowledge structure!

Also on performance-side, the RETE core of Bossam is well optimized and it gives a lot better performance than before!