Friday, June 10, 2005
Rule Language Standardizations: Report from the W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability
Rule Language Standardizations: Report from the W3C Workshop on Rule Languages for Interoperability: "Summary:
In April 2005, the W3C held a two-day workshop to gather data and explore options for establishing a standard web-based language for expressing rules. Over eighty representatives from various vendors, user communities, and research groups attended and reported on their views, experience, and ideas.
More than a dozen use cases were presented for rule language standardization, and about a half-dozen candidate technologies were presented and discussed. The workshop confirmed the differences among types of rules, such as 'if condition then action' rules and 'if condition then condition' ones. It also reviewed some of the difficulties in uptake that rules technologies have had in the past, but there was a general sense of new opportunity.
The workshop gave many indications that a W3C Recommendation here would be useful, but it was less clear what sort of standard would satisfy a sufficient base of users. In any Activity Proposal following from this workshop, a Working Group should be given a clear and narrow scope, making it easy to determine its relevance to various parts of the greater rules community."
In April 2005, the W3C held a two-day workshop to gather data and explore options for establishing a standard web-based language for expressing rules. Over eighty representatives from various vendors, user communities, and research groups attended and reported on their views, experience, and ideas.
More than a dozen use cases were presented for rule language standardization, and about a half-dozen candidate technologies were presented and discussed. The workshop confirmed the differences among types of rules, such as 'if condition then action' rules and 'if condition then condition' ones. It also reviewed some of the difficulties in uptake that rules technologies have had in the past, but there was a general sense of new opportunity.
The workshop gave many indications that a W3C Recommendation here would be useful, but it was less clear what sort of standard would satisfy a sufficient base of users. In any Activity Proposal following from this workshop, a Working Group should be given a clear and narrow scope, making it easy to determine its relevance to various parts of the greater rules community."
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