[sc34wg3] Merging/Viewing subject proxies

[Jan Algermissen]

On Jul 26, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Patrick Durusau wrote:

> Jan,
>
> Does seeing it done count at proof of doable?

If Versavant (havent looked at it yet) works for the arbitrary case  
and for realistic data set sizes (thousands (better millions) of  
proxies with dozens of properties, then yes, that would be  
sufficient, IMHO.

The question remains though, what 'seeing it done' really means :o)

Jan



>
> If so, see www.versavant.com.
>
> Patrick
>
> Jan Algermissen wrote:
>
>
>> Patrick,
>>
>> On Jul 26, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Patrick Durusau wrote:
>>
>>
>>> hhh = { < name = "rabbit, coney" >, < webresource =   
>>> "www.rabbitnetwork.net, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit" >, <   
>>> classification = "Oryctotagus cuniculus" > }
>>>
>>> Of course I am presuming that the disclosure for "name" allows  
>>> the  creation of a list of names and provides that if any of the  
>>> "names"  in the list match, further viewing with other subject  
>>> proxies that  have either "rabbit" or "coney" for the name  
>>> property will occur.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Having spend about a year on implementing what happens when  
>> proxies  merge and how the merged values demand further merges  
>> etc. and having  especially tried to trim the algorithm for this  
>> stuff down to O(logN)  I must say that the datatype magic you  
>> describe (here converting  scalar to set as needed) is unlikely to  
>> be doable. The consequence  IMHO is that most value types should  
>> come as sets in the first place  (e.g. 'names' as opposed to  
>> 'name' in the example.
>>
>> All this becomes really, really nasty when it comes to proxies  
>> being  (parts of) values...
>>
>> This is not to say that the RM is not brilliant....I just think  
>> there  is serious stuff in there that would need to be made  
>> explicit and  proven as doable. (There might well be problems  
>> lurking in there that  are not computable at all in finite time,  
>> dunno)
>>
>> Jan
>>
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Jan Algermissen, Consultant & Programmer                         
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Tugboat Consulting, 'Applying Web technology to enterprise IT'   
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