Università della Svizzera italiana

Representation and monitoring of commitments and norms using OWL

Fornara, Nicoletta ; Colombetti, Marco

In: AI communications, 2010, vol. 23, no. 4, p. 341-356

Monitoring the temporal evolution of obligations and prohibitions is a crucial aspect in the design of open interaction systems. In this paper we regard such obligations and prohibitions as cases of social commitment with starting points and deadlines, and propose to model them in OWL, the logical language recommended by the W3C for SemanticWeb applications. In particular we propose an...