Browsing by Author "Hendler, J."

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    Information accountability
    (ACM, 2008-06) Weitzner, D. J.; Abelson, H.; Berners-Lee, T.; Feigenbaum, J.; Hendler, J.; Sussman, G. J.
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    Metcalfe’s law, Web 2.0, and the Semantic Web
    (Elsevier, 2008-02) Hendler, J.; Golbeck, J.
    The power of theWeb is enhanced through the network effect produced as resources link to each other with the value determined by Metcalfe’s law. In Web 2.0 applications, much of that effect is delivered through social linkages realized via social networks online. Unfortunately, the associated semantics for Web 2.0 applications, delivered through tagging, is generally minimally hierarchical and sparsely linked. The Semantic Web suffers from the opposite problem. Semantic information, delivered through ontologies of varying amounts of expressivity, is linked to other terms (within or between resources) creating a link space in the semantic realm. However, the use of the Semantic Web has yet to fully realize the social schemes that provide the network of users. In this article, we discuss putting these together, with linked semantics coupled to linked social networks, to deliver a much greater effect.
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    N3logic: A logical framework for the world wide web
    (Cambridge University Press, 2008-05) Berners-Lee, T.; Connolly, D.; Kagal, I.; Scharf, Y.; Hendler, J.
    The Semantic Web drives towards the use of the Web for interacting with logically interconnected data. Through knowledge models such as Resource Description Framework (RDF), the Semantic Web provides a unifying representation of richly structured data. Adding logic to the Web implies the use of rules to make inferences, choose courses of action, and answer questions. This logic must be powerful enough to describe complex properties of objects but not so powerful that agents can be tricked by being asked to consider a paradox. The Web has several characteristics that can lead to problems when existing logics are used, in particular, the inconsistencies that inevitably arise due to the openness of the Web, where anyone can assert anything. N3Logic is a logic that allows rules to be expressed in a Web environment. It extends RDF with syntax for nested graphs and quantified variables and with predicates for implication and accessing resources on the Web, and functions including cryptographic, string, math. The main goal of N3Logic is to be a minimal extension to the RDF data model such that the same language can be used for logic and data. In this paper, we describe N3Logic and illustrate through examples why it is an appropriate logic for the Web.