The WSML Rule Languages for the Semantic Web

The Web Service Modeling Language WSML provides a framework for the modeling of ontologies and semantic Web services based on the conceptual model of the Web Service Modeling Ontology. In this paper we describe the two rule-based WSML-variants and outline our position with respect to a rule language for the Semantic Web. The first rule-based WSML variant, WSML-Flight, semantically corresponds to the Datalog fragment of F-Logic, extended with inequality in the body and locally stratified negation under the Perfect model semantics. The second, WSML- Rule, is an extension of WSML-Flight to the logic programming subset of F-Logic which allows the use of function symbols and unsafe rules (i.e., there may be variables in rule heads which do not occur in the body).peer-reviewe