To whom it may concern,

I have a Jena Model filled with statements and use a GenericRuleReasoner with
custom rule strings as follow (Example directly taken from Jena tutorial
page <https://jena.apache.org/documentation/inference/index.html>)

String rules = "[rule1: (?a eg:p ?b) (?b eg:p ?c) -> (?a eg:p
?c)]";Reasoner reasoner = new
GenericRuleReasoner(Rule.parseRules(rules));
reasoner.setDerivationLogging(true);InfModel inf =
ModelFactory.createInfModel(reasoner, model);

>From my understanding of Jena reasoner, new inference model inf would
contain statements from model as well as newly inferred statements
generated by the rules. Are instances of statements in both inf and
model shared
or different? If different, wouldn't this waste memory too much?

An issue that I'm having is reusing inferred statements into the model.
Looping through infmodel to find newly inferred statements and adding them
to model seems to be a naive approach. Is there any other wiser method?

Lastly, I am wondering what would be the best approach to remove outdated
statement from model. What I mean by an outdated statement is probably best
explained by an example. Say there is a statement (Speaker hasSoundLevel
50) in the model. Later, when a new statement such as (Speaker
hasSoundLevel 80) is inserted, it should invalidate(i.e. delete) (Speaker
hasSoundLevel 50) from the model. Could this be achieved by using a rule?
What if a statement needs to be outdated after certain amount of time since
its insertion? Any suggestions on how to achieve this would be appreciated.

Thanks,


Junsung Lim

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