VIStology BaseVISor 2.0 Plugin for TopBraid Composer 3.5 Fast, Customizable, Forward- ‐Chaining Inference Engine supports OWL 2 RL
Framingham, MA – VIStology, Inc., a leading semantic technology company, announces the availability of BaseVISor 2.0 as a plugin for TopQuadrant’s TopBraid Composer 3.5. BaseVISor is a powerful semantic inference technology that enables organizations to implement an ontology-driven approach to knowledge representation and reasoning. BaseVISor 2.0 implements the W3C’s OWL 2 RL standard. The plugin can be downloaded from the VIStology website: www.vistology.com Installation instructions are available at http://www.vistology.com/docs/TBCPlugInstallNote.pdf BaseVISor 2.0 features a highly efficient forward-chaining inference engine, optimized for ontological and rule-based reasoning. Rules and facts are compiled into a Rete network and processed with respect to specified ontologies in order to generate all new inferable facts. In comparison with other leading inference engines, BaseVISor 2.0 has been demonstrated to be considerably faster in inference time and query time on standard benchmarking datasets. TopQuadrant’s TopBraid Composer is a visual modeling environment from industry experts for creating and managing domain models and ontologies in the Semantic Web standards RDF Schema and OWL. Composer is an ontology editor and knowledge-base framework that provides visual editing support as well as interoperability with UML, XML Schema and databases. TopBraid Composer is based on the Eclipse platform and the Jena API. Composer seamlessly integrates logical and rule-based reasoning engines. It offers a convenient drag-and-drop, form-based user interface with the ability to view and edit ontologies in a variety of serialization formats. Testing, consistency checking and debugging is supported by built-in OWL Inference engine, SPARQL query engine and Rules engine. TopBraid Composer makes it easier for an enterprises to move to Semantic Web standards by importing legacy models including XML Schemas, UML, RDB Schemas and spreadsheets. Open APIs are available, it can run with the database back-end for improve scalability. The plugin has been tested with versions 3.5.0 and 3.5.1. BaseVISor 2.0 Plugin for TopBraid Composer Features: Rule Editing: The plugin’s BaseVISor editor provides rule templates and syntax checking for BaseVISor’s rule language. Drag and drop functionality allows the developer to incorporate vocabulary from ontologies within TopBraid Composer. BaseVISor natively supports XML schema datatypes (XSD). OWL 2 RL Processing: The axioms of OWL 2 RL provide scalable ontologybased reasoning without sacrificing expressive power. Reasoning: Rules are compiled by BaseVISor and executed at runtime. The BaseVISor inference engine may be chained with other inference engines within the TopBraid Composer environment. User-Defined Functions: User-defined procedural attachments can be invoked from within a rule to perform complex calculations, complementing BaseVISor’s built-in functions. The 3.5 plugin includes the ability to use the standard Top Braid Composer plugin mechanism for procedural attachments to BaseVISor rules. Rule Salience: Enables the rule with the highest priority to be executed first. Used when more than one rule is activated at the same time. Inclusion Mechanism: Provides a way for importing rules from the local file system or on the Web into BaseVISor for reasoning. About VIStology VIStology, Inc. is a software research and development corporation based in Framingham, MA, committed to the innovative design and development of adaptive and semantically rich information solutions. VIStology’s technical expertise is in formal semantics, information fusion, situation awareness, object oriented modeling & design, and artificial intelligence. Since 1997, VIStology has led numerous R&D projects funded through contracts with clients that include the US Army, DARPA, AFRL/AFOSR, ONR, and MDA. Licensing BaseVISor 2.0 can be licensed for academic and research use free of charge; all other uses require a commercial license. Contact [email protected]. For more information, visit http://www.vistology.com/BaseVISor/ Contact: Brian Ulicny VIStology, Inc [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Group "TopBraid Suite Users", the topics of which include TopBraid Composer, TopBraid Live, TopBraid Ensemble, SPARQLMotion and SPIN. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/topbraid-users?hl=en
