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I see your point, but there are issues where the tests should be performed by a credentialed organization. One user of a node might not care about the credentials of the node, another would. It isn't usually a good idea to alpha test in the field. As stated in an earlier email about the semantic web, "don't fly the first one." The other issues of operational credentials have to be dealt with differently than testing the node by black box means. Would you agree that black box testing is a statistical test? As Martin and Uche point out, the multilingual issues are difficult. These correlate loosely to multi-cultural issues and these are even more difficult. On the other hand, I can't envision ontological services without a control layer being sensible. The locus of control deserves attention. The contraint axioms deserve attention. For example, it isn't enough to establish a unit of time served (for presidents or jailed individuals) since events control unit values. (a president can be impeached, die in office, etc., a prisoner can attempt an escape and get an extended sentence, and so forth). The McGuiness article has some good insights into other issues of quality such as carefully eliminating cycles. We can establish quality credentials, it seems, although we cannot eliminate the problem of the source of the opinion, that is, the legitimacy of authority in ontological commitment. We can test and observe. I contend that the services paradigm is better for the third and fourth questions. 3. By what tests (observable behaviors) do we measure commitment? 4. By what means do we initiate or terminate such commitment? Again, the lesson of the golem was the problem of it asserting a role as master instead of servant and the problem of turning it off once it had done this and caused harm to the community. Ontological services will be required to establish a contract for the services and both users of services and service providers assume a measure of culpability for fair use. The struggle to establish controls is already underway. http://news.excite.com/news/ap/001219/14/library-filters Len Bullard Intergraph Public Safety clbullar@i... http://www.mp3.com/LenBullard Ekam sat.h, Vipraah bahudhaa vadanti. Daamyata. Datta. Dayadhvam.h -----Original Message----- From: W. E. Perry [mailto:wperry@f...] "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote: > I believe that is "black box" testing. Testing?! Sure, I guess we can test as a black box every node whose expertise we might want to incorporate into a larger construct, but this is identical to the process of *using* that node.
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