Embedding Event Algebras and Process for ECA Rules for the Semantic Web

  • Authors:
  • Erik Behrends;Oliver Fritzen;Wolfgang May;Franz Schenk

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Universität Göttingen, Lotzestrasse 16-18, 37083 Göttingen, Germany. E-mail: {behrends,fritzen,may,schenk}@informatik.uni-goettingen.de;Institut für Informatik, Universität Göttingen, Lotzestrasse 16-18, 37083 Göttingen, Germany. E-mail: {behrends,fritzen,may,schenk}@informatik.uni-goettingen.de;Institut für Informatik, Universität Göttingen, Lotzestrasse 16-18, 37083 Göttingen, Germany. E-mail: {behrends,fritzen,may,schenk}@informatik.uni-goettingen.de;Institut für Informatik, Universität Göttingen, Lotzestrasse 16-18, 37083 Göttingen, Germany. E-mail: {behrends,fritzen,may,schenk}@informatik.uni-goettingen.de

  • Venue:
  • Fundamenta Informaticae
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We describe how Event-Condition-Action (ECA) rules can be combined with event algebras like SNOOP for specification of the event part, and process algebras like CCS for specification of the action part to obtain a powerful, declarative formalism that also covers intuitively procedural tasks in an appropriate way. Since these formalisms have a concise formal semantics, verification and other kinds of reasoning about such specifications are possible. Using a rulemarkupwith cleanly distinguished rule components allows for such a compositional approach. The approach is currently under implementation in the MARS (Modular Active Rules for the Semantic Web) Framework.