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Rete network

Pychinko: Rete-based RDF friendly rule engine

Also known as a CWM clone

Developers:

Yarden Katz, Bijan Parsia and Kendall Clark

What is Pychinko?

Pychinko is a Python implementation of the classic Rete algorithm (see Charles Forgy's 1982 paper for the original description.) The Rete algorithm (and its since improved variants) has shown to be, in many cases, the most efficient way to apply forward-chaining rules to a set of facts--the basic functionality of an expert system. Pychinko employs an optimized implemention of the algorithm to handle facts expressed as triples, and process them using a set of N3 rules. We have tried to closely mimic the features available in CWM, as it is one of the most widely used rule engines in the RDF community. Several benchmarks have shown our Rete-based Pychinko to be upto 5x faster than the naive rule application used in CWM (see presentation below for preliminary results.) A typical use case for Pychinko might be applying the RDFS inference rules, available in N3, to a document. Similar rules are available for XSD and a dialect of OWL.

News

Releases

Latest release

The latest Pychinko code is available our SVN repository, at: http://svn.mindswap.org/pychinko/

Older releases

The first release of Pychinko (0.1) is available for download:

pychinko-0.1.tar.gz (Released Jan 17, 2005)

Installation instructions and other notes are available here.

The most up-to-date source is available in the MINDSWAP svn repository.

Projects using Pychinko


yarden at umd.edu
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