Category Archives: Semantic Web

Why Ontology driven (LLM-free) AI systems are needed

Posted on October 11, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

On 7 October 2025, Bas van der Raadt presented “Ontology and business rules in practice” at VU Amsterdam where he talked about:– Problems with code based systems– Why ontology driven AI systems are needed– What is an ontology?– How to … Continue reading →

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Creating a Simple Knowledge Graph (and a Pizza) with AI

Posted on January 27, 2025 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Kurt Cagle just shared his experience of using an LLM tool for building a knowledge graph. He asked DeepSeek to “Generate a list of all of the object types that may be relevant to running a pizza shop” and after … Continue reading →

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Automatically-generated ontology?

Posted on July 16, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Ron Ross: “Automatically-generated ontology? In other words, can existing AI on its own assemble a meaningful, useful ontology from some corpus for a domain of knowledge that currently has no ontology? Based on our experiments and experience, I’d say no … Continue reading →

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Graph Types and Ontological-Driven Data Structures

Posted on June 30, 2024 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Joe Hoeller wrote about common misconceptions about graphs and AI: “Graphs are essential in various domains, ranging from computer science to bioinformatics. However, distinguishing between different types of graphs and understanding their unique properties and applications is crucial. This article … Continue reading →

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Semantics, Ontology and Explanation

Posted on April 26, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

While ChatGPT dominates social forums, scientists quietly continue to work on real understanding of our surrounding using 100-years-old concepts of Logic, Semantics, and more recently Ontologies. Computer science people build symbolic models to represent their assumptions about a certain domain … Continue reading →

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Business Rules and Ontology in an Event-Driven Architecture

Posted on January 24, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

Bas van der Raadt describes an event-driven business architecture that connects business activities (business rules) with business data (ontology) via business events (state changes of business data). model. He explains how everything comes together and how it helps business people … Continue reading →

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DecisionCAMP Monthly Session on Jan 11, 2023

Posted on January 2, 2023 by decisionmanagementcommunity

The first 2023 DecisionCAMP Monthly Session “Why is symbolic AI being overshadowed by statistical AI?” presented by Bas van der Raadt will be held on Jan 11 at 12:00 pm EST (New York Time). Register for free here.

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In memory of Dr. Harold Boley

Posted on May 17, 2021 by jacobfeldman

Dr. Harold Boley passed away in December 2020. Being a well-known scientist in the semantic web movement and the Chair of RuleML from 2001 to 2020, Harold devoted a lot of efforts to integrate the academic research in the area … Continue reading →

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Knowledge Specification and Querying

Posted on July 25, 2019 by jacobfeldman

Our colleagues from the Rules and Reasoning community have just reported interesting results. They built a system that achieves 100% accuracy on an extensive test suite of movie-related questions, e.g. “Who appears in a Steven Spielberg directed film?”. Their approach … Continue reading →

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“Rules and Reasoning” Event at W3C Graph Data Workshop

Posted on March 14, 2019 by decisionmanagementcommunity

This event was held on March 4-6, 2019 in Berlin, Germany.  The following kinds of rules were discussed: Rules for graph knowledge inference Rules for graph data transformation/mapping Rules for graph data validation Rules for RDF shapes Rules for (controlled) natural … Continue reading →

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