xml-dev - Re: Services-based automation (WAS RE: Realistic proposals to the W3C?)

["Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@home.com>]

Sorry - the quoting brackets got omitted - here's what I
thought I was sending:

Bill dehOra wrote -

>What services can pattern recognition provide?

>Associative memory (find all like this uri) instead of
>addressing memory
>(find at this uri). You  could knock out a very cool
>implementation of Linda
>tuple spaces using rdf.

>Distributed/event based rules processing. Facts, rules,
>actions and
>assertions are all tuple patterns and live in the service
>space (or a
>network of services). You could knock a very cool
>implementation of such a
>rules base using Linda tuple spaces using rdf.

Check out IBM's TSpaces; not that it's RDF, but I could see
Topic Maps or RDF being used instead of Java objects.  It's
a sort of super-Linda.

Tom Passin