Am 11.05.2011 23:13, schrieb Richard Smith: > On May 11, 8:00 pm, Kay Wischkony <[email protected]> wrote: > >> When reading your specs, I was reminded of two IT-terms: >> "knowledge representation" and "fuzzy logic". When looking >> for existing software I would consider these to be more >> important than genealogy as mere application domain. > > I completely agree. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be much in > the way of existing technology (or even research papers that I've > noticed) that put the two together. > > There are certainly lots of technologies that tick the "knowledge > representation" box, and I have in past considered trying to build a > genealogy framework on top of the W3 semantic web stack (RDF, OWL, > SPARQL, RIF), but each time I look at it, I find myself put off by the > lack of a decent reasoning engine You are much more into this, so I will just add some brainstorming from far away memories: - <http://www.google.de/search?q=fuzzy+inference> looks interesting to me - My gut feeling is, the sematic web by concept contradicts the idea "fuzzy" HTH K W