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Business Rules in the Semantic Web, Are There Any or Are They Different?

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The semantic web community and the business rules community have common roots. This article explores the differences and similarities between the two fields in order to encourage collaboration between the communities with respect to standardization efforts and research topics.

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    Silvie Spreeuwenberg & Rik Gerrits

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  1. Centro de Inteligência Artificial, Departamento de Informática, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, 2829-516, Caparica, Portugal

    Pedro Barahona

  2. Institute for Informatics, University of Munich, Oettingenstr. 67, D-80538, München, Germany

    François Bry

  3. Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Piazza Domenicani 3, I-39100, Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy

    Enrico Franconi

  4. IVS - Semantic Web Group, Leibniz University of Hannover, Appelstr. 4, D-30167, Hannover, Germany

    Nicola Henze

  5. University of Manchester, UK

    Ulrike Sattler

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Spreeuwenberg, S., Gerrits, R. (2006). Business Rules in the Semantic Web, Are There Any or Are They Different?. In: Barahona, P., Bry, F., Franconi, E., Henze, N., Sattler, U. (eds) Reasoning Web. Reasoning Web 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4126. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11837787_6

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