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 I've put together a model to express scheduling, one particular fact is as follows:  WeeklySpecificationSettings has DaysOfWeek. It is possible that more than one WeeklySpecificationSettings has the same DaysOfWeek and that the same WeeklySpecificationSettings has more than one DaysOfWeek. In each population of ...

I like it.. it's an enhancement to working with the visual representation.. I do find that making key combinations available for tasks like establishing a fact between selected entities is something worth having. It's tough to beat really good textual fact entry though for speed. Have you considered a keystroke / auto-labeling scheme for ...

 Thank you everyone for the replies. I think from the suggestions I have enough reading to do for the rest of the year and then some! I will definitely be looking at the nORMa meta model and I will look at some of the papers on the brcommunity site. While my current "rule engine" project isn't endeavoring to handle all of the ...

Thanks for the additional information Ken. Victor.. I can’t race you.. my finish line keeps moving all over the place! ;) The subject is overwhelming. I am moving along I think with some limited knowledge.. I have a question relating to binary predicates and sets for anyone willing to entertain it. My first stumbling block is that for a binary ...

 Brian,  The book title "Introduction To Logic" got me digging through a series of books on mathematics that I had aquired five or six years ago.. and I found the single book I had bought on logic.. called "Introduction To Logic - And To The Methodology of Deductive Sciences". If only buying books that I wanted to ...

Thanks Brian and Ken. Brian, I will definately try to put some ORM fragments together as I begin to understand where to start.. at this point I am trying to understand based on my goals, which system of logic I should be concentrating on. I first found propositional logic, but in reading today I have drifted towards and believe that I will focus ...

I wasn't sure which forum would be best to post this in.  I am teaching myself about formal logic.. with the catalyst being that I am creating a "Rule Engine" of sorts.. I want to approach defining a "rule" as a well formed formula.. hoping to create a relational schema to store those definitions. So I was wondering ...

 Mine arrives tomorrow.. I am excited! That is all.  Here's a BBBC button for any members to link from their respective sites haha..

 Ken, I think ideally option 2 would be the route taken. In my own experience, when I am tasked with assisting an organization improve their data model, the first step for me is to work with the domain experts to develop a solid conceptual model, following the CSDP as much as possible. As for there being ambiguities between the formal ...

Ken, I tried to edit my last post to add this, for some reason it would not take the update. I wanted to answer your question: "Is SchemaCop intended to test for question 1, 2, 3, 4 or some of them or all of them....", at the moment I am focused on a tool to assist in answering the question posed by item 4. I think the other ...