I am in Leicester at DeMontfort University for a meeting about developing a trust management system. This is a collaborative project funded partly by NATO to encourage work among researchers in NATO countries. We have had some very interesting discussions of what trust means in software systems rather than social systems as well as how […]

I attended the Second International IEEE Workshop on Software Evolvability (program) and the first day of the IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance (ICSM 2006), held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. on 24-25 September 2006. My trip report is available on:
http://prototypo.blogspot.com/2006/09/software-evolvability-2006-in.html
and
http://prototypo.blogspot.com/2006/09/international-conference-on-software.html

Yesterday I succesfully presented my thesis proposal!! The general idea is to utilize OWL-DL and Description Logic reasoning for the purpose of syndication on the Web. One of the main goals of my current work is to address current limitations in DL-based syndication approaches, primarily related to reasoning through changes. If you are interested a […]

For a while now I have been using Google to find OWL during my demos.  If one uses a search key and “ext:owl” or “ext:rdf” one can find files with the searched term- and since most OWL users are ignoring the recommendation to use “rdf” as the extension and using “.owl” the ext:owl search tends […]